Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Decameron day 6

9.2  The nuns reaction makes her seem like a hypocrite.  She is yelling at the girl for having sexual relations while at the same time the nun was discovered to be having sexual relations also.  It also makes sin not relevant at all.  They believe that as long as you do it discreetly its ok.  which is completely false seeing how god is all knowing and all seeing.  If people are not going to follow the rules then they might as well not have rules at all.

9.3  I would say Calandrino's friends are more guilty.  Their friend was given money and even though it was not a lot he just wanted to buy some land.  While his friends would rather have him spend it on them all.  His friends basically stole the money from him and thats just not right.  Its one thing to play a trick on someone for fun, but to make the person spend his money on you in the process is just messed up.  Also Calandrino was very mean to his wife making it seem like it was her fault he was pregnant which is just mean.  It shows how woman had a very small role in society in the time period.

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