In this paper, I wanted to review "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Colonial America by John M. Murrin. Bestiality was a person who had the sex relationship with animals. When the bestiality occurred, people decided to make prosecution by using the law. In the society, laws could help people to prevent the wrong thing occurred and warned all people to act correctly. From this article, I understood people's attitude on the bestiality and sodomy during the colonial period.
In the article, the author used lots of cases and facts to prove that people committed that bestiality and sodomy were a crime. Many religious people believed that unnatural sexual behaviors could not be accepted. For example, in 1712, several people aid that they saw a labor named Robert Jones copulated with …show more content…
To persuade the audience that bestiality was not normal, the author listed lots of case to describe that a person may have the punishment if the witnesses committed that he had bestiality. The thesis was Bestiality lowered a man to the level of a beast, but it also left something human in the animal.
I believe that the author did not challenge for the historical viewpoint. He also agreed that bestiality was not moral. He lists all the causes of the bestiality and result of the causes. Many people got their punishment from the prosecution. Thus, people should control themselves and tries to stop the bestiality if they saw.
The author used the direct quotes from two versions of Testaments.The First on is the old Testaments: “If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death ...And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be
In the article, the author used lots of cases and facts to prove that people committed that bestiality and sodomy were a crime. Many religious people believed that unnatural sexual behaviors could not be accepted. For example, in 1712, several people aid that they saw a labor named Robert Jones copulated with …show more content…
To persuade the audience that bestiality was not normal, the author listed lots of case to describe that a person may have the punishment if the witnesses committed that he had bestiality. The thesis was Bestiality lowered a man to the level of a beast, but it also left something human in the animal.
I believe that the author did not challenge for the historical viewpoint. He also agreed that bestiality was not moral. He lists all the causes of the bestiality and result of the causes. Many people got their punishment from the prosecution. Thus, people should control themselves and tries to stop the bestiality if they saw.
The author used the direct quotes from two versions of Testaments.The First on is the old Testaments: “If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death ...And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be