Essay Compare And Contrast Jamestown And Plymouth Plantation

The voyage to the new land was quite a challenge with harsh conditions they faced over a period of 5 or more months. Dangerous, long, and never ending is what many would describe it if we were in their place. Two groups of different people embarked on the same voyage to the new land which were Jamestown and the Plymouth Plantation. What distinguished each other was what kind of person they hold as a leader, how they worked together as a group, and their purpose of traveling there. In the beginning of the Jamestown voyage, their main captain was quite corrupt and he was only there for a certain part of the voyage (pg 72-73) describes how the president gorged on his plentiful provisions. Later on he died and they had a new president, but made poor decisions and Cap. John smith took over restoring order and he kept boasting about his leadership skills. (pg 74). He boasted about how brave he was about how he fought the savages (pg 75). He seemed like a very conceited and cocky, so to speak, on the way he greatly expresses himself.
The Jamestown crew mostly consisted of men who were fending off for themselves in the ship. And with such corruption there this was not a surprise. Their crew was a mess until John Smith came and restored order and put everyone in their place , but before that many died and so on because they didn’t really care and tend to each other. Meanwhile, on the Plymouth Plantation they were more of a community on the ship they had women and children on there too. On (pgs 80-81) shows how when they got sick a few people would devote their time and patience to those who were ill. And even if those people died their efforts were not in vain because their recompense would be with the lord. Religion was a factor that made the voyage quite different because all they did was with purpose. And everything that happened, they believed that it was in God’s