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Women's Literature 2 Margery Kempe: First Autobiography 88 Views
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What did Margery Kempe write about in her book, and how did people respond? We hope the answer is with many heart-wrenching and inspiring fanfictions.
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Thank you We sneak Margery cannon did she write the
- 00:09
first autobiography Alas shmoop yeah more or less i mean
- 00:14
it's hard though to even call it an autobiography and
- 00:17
it's kind of a diary She keeps track of her
- 00:20
spiritual visions but then also other people respond to them
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- 00:24
is you're kind of just getting a day to day
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record of what happened to her Not totally in retrospect
- 00:29
as an autobiography would be but almost as it happens
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it's more like the spiritual autobiography right She's not thie
- 00:35
idea is that she's writing this down so that like
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her grandkids will know what it was like for her
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on a daily basis all the stuff that's included that's
- 00:40
about just her daily life is ultimately included for kind
- 00:43
of referencing when the stuff mystically is happening right So
- 00:47
she's ultimately interested in recording her religious experience on i
- 00:51
also don't think she's writing it for anyone but herself
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necessarily She doesn't always understand what's happening to her and
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the people around her definitely understand what's happening to her
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so she's writing about these visions because there overwhelming It
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was also dictated though right Like even though it's it's
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presented as if it were a day to day thing
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there's like a whole story where she tried to get
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one guy to do it and then found out that
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basically everything transcribed was illegible to everybody else It was
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like a quack scribe that she just didn't know about
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And then she had to have some other dude do
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it all over again So it's it's also interesting to
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think about her as a woman getting a man to
- 01:25
like take down these very banal right Like every day
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Yeah absolutely And that interferes with the story too I
- 01:32
mean she's constantly being shut down by her men has
- 01:36
thinks she's insane of course I mean we think she's
- 01:40
a little insane You havin a good way keeping she's
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you know a disrespectful woman who doesn't understand her place
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And at this point she has tons of kids right
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Absolutely So she has other stuff to do as well
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But then she also has these mystic passions that keep
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overtaking her And i think that's how you can read
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her as a heroine in this novel The fact that
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she's pursuing pure passion there actually records of her about
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how she was always just like in tears on the
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street Having these mystical experiences right like the extremity with
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which she's emotionally feeling her connection to christ was not
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normal even at the time were like can you just
- 02:14
like tone it down What did kemp write about in
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her book How did people respond to kem spirituals Vision 00:02:27.07 --> [endTime] She didn't have an iphone to record divisions
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