Retrospective Readings

I think that even though some of these texts that we read for the week were a little different, they were still a little similar to the ones we had been reading. A woman loses her virtue, something happens to where she is unhappy and heart-broken most of the time.

In reflection on the last couple of weeks and the different readings that we have done, I think the ones that I can recall the most are the ones where we talked about rake. Every time that I read these articles though, I always link them to something from our modern day life. It just helps me to understand it more.

However, I did find it interesting in the reading from this week in The Gossip No.LIV and how it actually correlates to a modern day story of Jamie Lynn Spears and teenage pregnancy in our society. I did find this article to be rather interesting.

One thing that really did strike my attention was how in the article The Gossip XXV the question is finally directly asked, “And why is not Chastity as necessary a virtue in man, as in woman?”

We still see this stigma today, for the most part. Woman are always held in a more harsh light when they do something not deemed acceptable because most of the time they have to deal with the consequences where the man gets to choose. Teenage pregnancy would be an example because the man is usually seen to be respected and heroic if he decides to stay by the woman’s side.