Literature of Early American Time Period - Essay Example

Some authors presented different perspective of relationships among the people while other presented the relationship that ought to exist between them and the supernatural being. In looking at the past history of the literature of America, a look at the William Bradford’s book Of Plymouth Plantation exposes different themes that dominated the life of people in those times and the analysis of those themes shows the different preoccupations of males and females in the society.
In Bradford’s book, one of the themes in the book is exploration in new places where he explains an exploration in Cape, New England where they arrived at in a ship that put them in a harbor. He describes how some men wanted to understand the environment of the New England and pursued some local men who had come near the harbor but they ran away never to be caught. When men ran after the locals, the women who had travelled with them were left at the harbor and on the other hand, when the men wanted to carry out greater exploration, thirty of them entered the ship to go to different places and made some discoveries (Bradford 81-82).
In his description of the event of the journey to spread the word of God to different places, Bradford indicated the theme of ethnic tensions which made the different groups in the book to fear each other. For example, when the people from England arrived at Cap-Codd and their ship was on repair, the fourth day the men decided to go for a trip to explore the area and find somewhere they could stay. The captain of the ship warned them to arm themselves for any eventuality in the course of their exploration, which indicated that the Englishmen did not feel secure in the area. On the other hand, the men from Cap-Codd the Englishmen met with dogs strolling without any identifiable location, which indicates a kind of means of ensuring their security. On seeing the Englishmen, Bradford says that the men from Capp-Codd “…… fled from ...Show more