Thursday, August 4, 2011
What do you think of this feminist story I've written/summarized?
'There was a far away country that held many beliefs of the Goddess and the Virgin Mary, but some years later a Patriarchal Puritan religion came to that country and weeded out the Catholics and Pagans and destroyed their 'Divine Queens'. One mother died giving birth to an independent and stubborn girl beneath a statue of the Virgin Mary/Goddess. The girl's father was a strict Puritan but did have a soft side for his daughter. Until he married again to a homely unkind woman who had 2 beautiful but self-righteous daughters trained in homemaking and scripture. The father died from an illness, some say it was a curse from God because he didn't trained his daughter to be obedient and meek. The stepmother married again, as is a custom in the new religion for a widow to marry again, to a slow-witted but rough and harsh Pastor who also had 2 harsh 'manly' sons. The women of this religion were looked down and often called 'daughters of serpents' women distrusted other women, which is one of the reasons the stepmother is cruel even to her own kind, but especially towards her stepdaughter; while her own daughters were trained in chores, meekness and manners, the stepdaughter was independent and 'unfeminine'. The stepfather disliked his wife's stepdaughter more than she did; he would strap her with his belt until she was bloody. Even the stepmother and stepsisters would insult her in front of their community. They threaten her that if she does not marry her stepfather chooses, she will be sent to a brothel; but if she runs away they will slander her as a thief and criminal and have chased by dogs. Everywhere the girl turned, she saw images of Jezebels, burning witches, Eve eating an apple from the serpent, Potiphar's wife seducing Joseph, the Whore of Babylon. It frighten and grieved her and she ran into a forest where she bumped into the statue of the Goddess/Virgin Mary and wept beside it. Just as she was about to give in, she felt tears falling on her head, she saw the statue weeping. and out the dark she saw an old pagan witch dressed in black and in the company of owls and black cats. She was frighten but the witch helped her in a fairy-godmother way. But when the girl turned around to thank the witch, her carriage was flying by winged animals. There in the clouds she saw the shape of the Queen of Heaven, smiling and winking at her'.
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