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This 3 page essay explores a modern event in relationship to the medieval thoughts of debt and obligation and addressed in comparison to Augustine and Abelard and Heloise. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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In Rachel Sonntags, "Falling Off the World," she reports that two modern day lovers are pitted against the harsh realities of lay-offs and the shared vision of a
day when their lives will be different after the economic recovery. Awaiting this falling off point, they enjoy "the beautiful childlike state" of not having responsibilities, of being free to
make love and enjoy each others company. It is a romantic tale of love that ends with the star-crossed lovers thrown apart by that sought, economic recovery. Augustine and Abelard
would place this love story within religious constructs, while Heloise and Sonntag admit to the underlying doom and ill fate inherent in the situation. They will relate it to more
secular causes and effects. In Sonntags newspaper story, one senses the same medieval idea of doomed love that is captured by Abelard and
Heloise in their letters, much like the sense of doom in St. Augustines Confessions. Fate is inescapable and therefore romantic love is something short-lived and beyond normal society. The medieval
sense of doom can be put into a religious context or a secular one. In both cases, the relationship is ill-fated because of the debt and obligations that put opposing
pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. Analysis Every human seems
to drawn toward something they know is unobtainable. Whether they can obtain that which they seek is preempted by the medieval sense that man is a sinner and is incapable
of good. This innate sense is difficult to transcend, and because of its difficulty we create our own ill fate. Sonntag admits
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