Sarah’s exclusive, passionate, sexual love for Maurice has become a self-sacrificial love that includes in its beneficence the woes of other men. It is now love for God and thereby love for Maurice. Greene shows that Sarah is not becoming a saint as he declares that when Sarah is weak, she decided that she cannot go on keeping her vow any longer and that she wants “ordinary corrupt human love”. Maurice also is a repentant, and even in the midst of his anger and duplicity he can still issue a challenge to the Christian view of the
Sarah’s exclusive, passionate, sexual love for Maurice has become a self-sacrificial love that includes in its beneficence the woes of other men. It is now love for God and thereby love for Maurice. Greene shows that Sarah is not becoming a saint as he declares that when Sarah is weak, she decided that she cannot go on keeping her vow any longer and that she wants “ordinary corrupt human love”. Maurice also is a repentant, and even in the midst of his anger and duplicity he can still issue a challenge to the Christian view of the