Faith in God
Have you ever wondered if God really cares about you? Does he really look after you, look after your safety and the safety of your loved ones? Does God really matter in the end? The Second Nun’s Tale seeks to answer this question, because quite often it can become a topic of dispute amongst secular and religious debaters. Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale is one which covers a woman Cecilia, who is a Christian noble woman, marries a man named Valerian. Cecilia tells Valerian that she wants to remain a virgin for the rest of her life, and that she is protected by a guardian angel who will smite anyone who tries to take her virginity. Valerian can only love Cecilia chastely, and in order for Valerian to see the guardian angel he needs to get baptized by the Pope. A local Roman prefect finds out about the conversions after Valerian refuses to sacrifice to the Roman God Jupiter, and the prefect executes Valerian and his brother Tiberius. …show more content…
In our present day culture, we have many unspoken sins, of which one is sexual assault. A prime comparison to today is the story of abstinence to college campuses. Similar to the story, one of the most important and prominent events shaping sexual assault is the hookup culture prevalent on campuses, of which students will often hookup with one another with no real connection, and quite often these students will be drunkenly raped or sexually assaulted.. Alike to the story, the large problem surrounding sexual assault is the silence of women and how they do not have a proper voice with their cases. The story diverges however, in the case that Cecilia has a guardian angel who protects her in her journey, while most women today do not have that level of protection. The story differs from the modern contextual one in the sense that the students aim to protect themselves from this rampant
Have you ever wondered if God really cares about you? Does he really look after you, look after your safety and the safety of your loved ones? Does God really matter in the end? The Second Nun’s Tale seeks to answer this question, because quite often it can become a topic of dispute amongst secular and religious debaters. Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale is one which covers a woman Cecilia, who is a Christian noble woman, marries a man named Valerian. Cecilia tells Valerian that she wants to remain a virgin for the rest of her life, and that she is protected by a guardian angel who will smite anyone who tries to take her virginity. Valerian can only love Cecilia chastely, and in order for Valerian to see the guardian angel he needs to get baptized by the Pope. A local Roman prefect finds out about the conversions after Valerian refuses to sacrifice to the Roman God Jupiter, and the prefect executes Valerian and his brother Tiberius. …show more content…
In our present day culture, we have many unspoken sins, of which one is sexual assault. A prime comparison to today is the story of abstinence to college campuses. Similar to the story, one of the most important and prominent events shaping sexual assault is the hookup culture prevalent on campuses, of which students will often hookup with one another with no real connection, and quite often these students will be drunkenly raped or sexually assaulted.. Alike to the story, the large problem surrounding sexual assault is the silence of women and how they do not have a proper voice with their cases. The story diverges however, in the case that Cecilia has a guardian angel who protects her in her journey, while most women today do not have that level of protection. The story differs from the modern contextual one in the sense that the students aim to protect themselves from this rampant