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Death in The Dream of the Rood

According to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., her revelation of these visions, Showings, is colored by her experience and temperament as an individual woman. Julian's depiction of the crucifixion describes Christ's love for humanity upon his crucifixion. "This I took it for that time that our Lord Jesus of his courteous love would show me the comfort before the time of my temptation; for me thought it might well be that I should by the sufferance of God and with his keeping be tempted of fiends before I should die." (Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., p. 294) His choice to die upon the cross seems to be the necessity for the salvation of mankind, not as the manifestation of His inimitable honor and glory.The thanes of the heroic code are bound to their lord by honor. The Dream of the Rood affirms this powerful obligation as the author writes that when God visits us on judgment day, He will ask who would stand fast, unafraid, for Him, their real leader: "Before his host he will ask where the man is who in the name of the Lord would taste bitter death as he did on the cross." (Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., p. 21). In addition, the lord is bound to his men. This ideal is continued within the chivalry of the Middle Ages. As a passage of Showings tells the reader: "It is the most worship that a solemn king or a great lord may do a poor servant if he will be homely with him; and namely if he show it himself of a full true meaning and with glad cheer both in private and openly." (Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., p. 296)However, Julian's mystical visions imbue a more feminine idea to the crucifixion than does The Dream of the Rood. Showings tells us of Christ as the figure of the trinity left on the cross, but also relates a singularity of motherhood upon his actions. Would not any mother die for her child? Christ died for the lambs of his fold. The lofty ...

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