“The Ruins of Abbey
Fitzmartin” contain the same gothic tropes in which we have been studying since
the beginning of the semester. To begin with, the setting is a decaying abbey. Our
main characters are heroic women. The story is centered around an deception and
unjust murder all due to a forced marriage by a controlling father. This plot
is identical to the stories we have been studying thus far, and just like these
stories, we are provided with ways to address these fears.
The Ruins tells us
not to trust strangers, they can deceive you. Learn someone’s true identity
before trusting them (and even then they may not be trustworthy). It also tells
us that if we need to seek refuge, then we need to find somewhere else other
than a religious establishment. Religion and its followers are not always pure.
We also learn to avoid the darkness because that is where the skeletons and
ghosts lurk. The ultimate resolution to this story, and a lesson we learn is
the dead may not be truly dead and could still be able to seek revenge on those
that have wrong them. This teaches us to try not to harm others because they
could pay us back.
2 comments:
Andrea,
I think you have a great post about the Ruins of the Abbey Fitzmartin. I really liked how to the beginning you kind of gave a back ground of the story. I also thought how you connected this story to the other ones that we have been reading in class. I was a little confused when you said "It also tells us that if we need to seek refuge, then we need to find somewhere else other than a religious establishment." I was leaning in the direction that she shouldn't have joined the monastery if she wasn't going to stay true to the values. I think you had some great connections.
-Abbie Burton
Oh, I agree that she should not have joined the monastery if she was not going to stay true to the values. I think Poe was trying to tell us to run from arranged marriage but to not hide in the Cathedral. I think my sentence just did not convey what I meant.
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