Humanities & Classics 1002
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These are my groups responses to the questions on The Name of the Rose.
1) Our group felt that what distinguished William of Baskerville's approach from most of the other charachters was that he had experience and from his experience he knew to deduce rational conclusions from the facts. He also never seemed to make assuptions like most of the other charachters. He also saw past the thoughts of it being the work of a devil and thought that it could be a person as well who committed the acts.
2) We decided that William looks for evidence that is factual in order to find the truth and the inquisitor used torture tests to force people to tell him what he thought was the truth. The inquisitor used fear as a way of getting people to tell the so called truth and William wasn't really interested in the hearsay of other people.
3) We thought the monks were so willing to attribute the events to the devil/witchcraft because they were trained that way. At that time they knew very little about witchcraft etc. and therefore it was easy to just throw blame on it. This also made it easy on the monestary because then they didn't have to address the issue that someone inside the monestary may be corrupt.
4) Our group thought that Jorge didn't destroy the manuscript because he knew that Aristotle was a great author and repected him and probably knew to an extent that what he was holding was a great literary masterpiece. He also may of wanted to hold on to it to see who would try and read it and get revenge on whoever tried to read it by leaving the poison on it. We thought that Jorge saw laughter and comedy as such a threat because it was the total opposite of the traditional munk life. As said in class their motto was basically prayer and work. They weren't really allowed any fun, and laughter threatens to change that lifestyle. Since that life is all he knew he probably feared the change. He may have also thought that the monk way of life would lose respect and somehow lose it's dignity. He obviously took his life very seriuosly and wanted all monks to do the same.
5) We were just wondering where the role of women came in this time period? We know that women could be Nuns at this time so where are they? Do they have there own dwelling place? Do Nuns and Monks ever gather together or their lifestyles coincide? Other then Nuns did women have any place in society in this time period?
That's all we have! *Thanks*
~Group #9