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From: Sharon Kenney
T1: pogue666@aol.com
Date: 4/7/98
Time: 9:50:56 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.205.106
I found your comments on the prologue very interesting. I agree with your thoughts about the way in which peasants who performed difficult labor were valued. Since they felt that God wanted them in that particular position in society, they would be sinning if they displayed desire to cease hard work or do something else. Those who chose not to participate in field work were perceived as going against God, and as you stated, "gluttons guilty of sloth." In the chapter which I analyzed (2), I found similar sentiments expressed by the narrator. Everyone who followed the lead of Lady Fee were extremely corrupted and sinful.