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This essay looks into Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 captivity narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Examining this narrative reveals how Rowlandson represented herself as a devoted Puritan woman and also presented her own perspectives that diverged from those of the Puritan leaders and community. This essay first explains the background in which Puritan captivity narratives appeared in New England in early America. It then argues that the twofold representations of Rowlandson as a faithful religious woman and an acculturated captive to the American captors point to how she deliberately negotiated her captivity experience to meet the expectation of her native English community and to show her own standpoint. While conforming to the ideal image of Puritan women according to the demand of her religious and male-centered culture, Rowlandson managed to disclose her voice that denied the dominant religious and cultural ideologies of her time.
