Today, I would like to discuss the relationship between Margery Kempe and her husband.
In the beginning of the book Margery believes she is a terrible person, she thinks that she is seeing visions and hearing the devil, which in class we through out the idea that she may have had postmortem depression. Because of her past she now wishes to devote herself physically and mentally to God. Due to this she denies her husband several things, the most notable being that she doesn't want to have sex with him, but she still obeys him in which I take it that if he tells her that they are having sex then she will but she won't be happy about it. The next is that Margery Kempe's husband wants her to commune with him on Fridays. Instead she fasts and communes with God, which is understandable, however she also needs to make time for her husband. It seems to me almost that they are in a marriage, and they play the roles of husband and wife, to the minuscule extent that they can get away with. Maybe they are together strictly because divorce and separation are frowned upon at this time, whatever the reason, it seems that their marriage is not one that they are happy in, if one is more happy than the other I would say that it is Margery, because she gets almost everything she wants even if she has to wait a bit. Where as her husband seems to be giving into Margery and trying to get something for himself out of the deal.
No comments:
Post a Comment