Autobiography is not something new to people today, but back in 203 C.E it was something that would change the course of a whole religion altogether. “The Martyrdom of Perpetua” gives us a first hand account of Perpetua experiences up to her final breath. Her fate would illustrate to other how she would not let death stop her for standing up thing she believed in. Perpetua believe that her autobiography would later help others with the same fate to show encouragement, control and to have courage.
Perpetua after all was a woman and her belief were considered different. She believed that recorded events such as her would help and become a part of the past and vital to posterity just like the religious teaching of God written before her time. She stated that “why wouldn’t event be similar recorded for those same purpose?” She is comparing her event as an educational encouragement to people that may to have face difficult …show more content…
In the end she does the most courage’s show of action by guiding a sword to her own throat. There is no way of knowing what she thought at that moment in time, but one thing that is clearly portrayed by her action is courage.
“The Martyrdom of Perpetua” is without bias even if with the intention to help others. No one in the world would or could write a real life actual event without changing or extending the details. She wanted to help people that may have to go through this or something similar, and putting all the part of fear and despair, she had to endure before all the courage’s part would have made this autobiography less meaningful. With the fate being predetermined of course she could have not written the part of the battle before her death. This part is just what the author perceived or though what Perpetua was
Perpetua after all was a woman and her belief were considered different. She believed that recorded events such as her would help and become a part of the past and vital to posterity just like the religious teaching of God written before her time. She stated that “why wouldn’t event be similar recorded for those same purpose?” She is comparing her event as an educational encouragement to people that may to have face difficult …show more content…
In the end she does the most courage’s show of action by guiding a sword to her own throat. There is no way of knowing what she thought at that moment in time, but one thing that is clearly portrayed by her action is courage.
“The Martyrdom of Perpetua” is without bias even if with the intention to help others. No one in the world would or could write a real life actual event without changing or extending the details. She wanted to help people that may have to go through this or something similar, and putting all the part of fear and despair, she had to endure before all the courage’s part would have made this autobiography less meaningful. With the fate being predetermined of course she could have not written the part of the battle before her death. This part is just what the author perceived or though what Perpetua was