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A 3 essay that contrasts and compares feminist issues in Mary Rowlandson's narrative and Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. In 1675, Mary Rowlandson's home was attacked by Indians and she was abducted. She later recorded and published a narrative that gave an account of her captivity. Roughly a half-century later, Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela also includes a narrative of captivity. Both texts address the use and misuse of bodies. This examination of these two texts focuses on three examples from each text of use/misuse of bodies and the patterns/themes that this reveals about societal context in which the female body was perceived. No additional sources cited.
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includes a narrative of captivity. Both texts address the use and misuse of bodies. The following examination of these two texts focuses on three examples from each text of use/misuse
of bodies and the patterns/themes that this reveals about societal context in which the female body was perceived. 3 examples from each text: The principal misuse of Rowlandsons body
is her abduction and the brutality of the Indian attack. She records seeing loved ones murdered, and herself and her children wounded or killed. She writes, "...the Indians laid hold
of us, pulling me one way an the children another"; however, they inform Rowlandson that if she comes with them, they will not hurt her (Rowlandson para. 2). Rowlandson is
sold into slavery. She writes, "I was sold to him (her master) by another Narragansett Indian" (Rowlandson "Third Remove" para. 2). While in captivity, Rowlandson describes how she was slapped,
kicked and starved. However, her experience was not as awful as the fate of another woman who frequently asked to go home, as this earned her captors anger. They "stripped
her naked" and danced around her before, ultimately, killing both her and the child she held and burning the bodies (Rowlandson "Fourth Remove" para. 1). In Richardsons novel, Pamela
is a poor, but virtuous servant employed within the estate of the nobleman, her master, whom she refers to as Mr. B. This narrative basically relates the determined efforts of
Mr. B. to seduce Pamela. He first attempts rape when he corners Pamela alone in the Summer House. Pamela resists him and relate the incidence to her parents, "...At last
I burst from him and was getting out of the summer-house; but he held me back and shut the door" (Richardson "Letter XI" para. 8). Periodically, Pamela escapes licentious male
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