Olaudah Equiano's Relationship With Christianity

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While The Female American, Olaudah Equiano, and Robinson Crusoe are all extremely unique novels in and of them, the relationships each person forms with Christianity can be closely related to one another. Just like Robinson Crusoe, Unca Eliza Winkfield and Olaudah Equiano both form very reliant relationships with their God, which could be because of the path that Crusoe laid out before them. Although these three novels are very distinctive, it is without a doubt apparent that the structure of each of their relationships with Christianity are both in the same literary family as Robinson Crusoe.
Even though Robinson Crusoe chooses to leave home and embark on a journey to explore places that haven’t been inhabited by people of his kind yet, Unca Eliza Winkfield’s situation …show more content…

Both Crusoe and Equiano believed that their own spiritual journeys would bring them closer to God who would in turn set them free from their trials and hard times by strengthening their faith throughout their novel. When Crusoe first lands on the island, he takes a second to thank God for helping him through the hard times during his venture to the island; “…began to look up and thank God that my life was saved…” throughout his time on the island, he continues to speak highly of God when he is blessed or protected in the situations he is placed in. Whereas Equiano did also give the glory to God when it was needed. We see this when Equiano is able to pray to God in hard times and in fear and was able to submit by “…worshipping God, who made us and all things” (Equiano 42). You also get the sense that Equiano used God is a coping and comfort mechanism, just like Crusoe did during his journey; “…hand of the creator began to appear to my comfort” (Equiano

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