ENGLISH 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: John Thelwall, John Bunyan, Mikhail Bakhtin
21 Nov 2017
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A prisoner writing critiques on the justice system. They are trying to find out why crimes are committed. They made the punishments more brutal to scare people out of crime. She gave up her chastity so she has to be murdered. A personal failure of self -regulation will lead to more crime and eventually death. It is intergenerational, one crime led to another crime, she places guilt on her and she is an adulterer. When you lose your chastity out of wedlock you will suffer as it is causally related to sin. She is concerned about how it has affected men (her dad, mortaign and her unborn baby boy) He intreated the spectators to pray for him, and begged the executioner to dispatch him with as much speed as he could. [ ] let all maidens learn to preserve their chastity, by the. Mortaign, to be less inhuman, bloody, and lascivious(cid:499) (cid:523)31(cid:524).
