BRADFORD – OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION – post to journal 1A by assigned due date (respond to question 1 and 2 and then any 1 of the remaining Bradford questions)
1. Citing specific examples from the Bradford readings, discuss the ways in which he uses language (words and sentences) to describe and inform his readers about the situation and conditions they faced. How do Bradford’s descriptions give ‘meaning’ to their experience. Hint: re-read Bradford’s description of the potential perils they faced at the hands of the ‘savages’ on page 126 of the text and note the sentence beginning “And also those which should escape …”
2. How do these readings from Bradford’s history challenge and/or affirm traditional American beliefs about the Pilgrims and our colonial origins?
(respond to 1 of the following 3 questions)
2. How does Bradford’s account of the Puritan’s/Pilgrim’s rationale of leaving for the ‘new world’ (chapter IV: Showing the Reasons and Causes for Their Removal) compare with our ‘traditional’ understanding of their rationale?
3. In seventeenth-century Puritan thought, prosperity was a mixed blessing, even a paradox. If the colony prospered, and if individuals within the congregations fared well materially, such good fortune could signify righteousness and divine favor; but these colonists took seriously the warnings in the Gospels about the near impossibility of rich people entering Heaven. Bradford sounds elegiac in his account (Book II, Chapter XXII) of the colony growing prosperous and dispersing. The colony has succeeded and is spreading inland–so how can we account for Bradford’s melancholy mood?
4. If Bradford’s intent in writing his ‘Historie’ was to glorify and sanctify the ‘Pilgrim’ experience in the New World, discuss why he would feel it necessary to include the events he relates in chapter 32. ‘A Horrible Truth”?
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