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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date The Song at the Scaffold Introduction Gertrude Von Le Forte is a German writer who expressed her fear of the contemporary threats to the Christian values in her book The Song at The Scaffold. Le Forte was partly inspired by the 1794 martyrdom of the Carmelite nuns of Compiègne. Sixteen nuns were charged with crimes against the French people before the Revolutionary Tribunal and were condemned to death (Le and Marx, 13). She invented a character, Blanche de la Force to show the events that led to martyrdom. Blanche was a young girl who had witnessed the effects of the French revolution and her fears of war, violence, death, suffering as well as loss of her faith, made her seek refuge in a convent. The Theme of Fear Le Forte presents the theme of fear in a great way. The birth of Blanche was surrounded by fear since it occurred the fateful day of Louis the Sixteenth wedding. A catastrophe of the notorious fireworks led to violence. As Blanche's mother was leaving the square, she was dragged from her carriage in which she was safe and secure, into a half-wrecked carriage so that her fears matched the others'(Le and Marx, 18). A shrieked man mocked her that she was safe and secure on her couch while people were dying under the hooves of her horse. Therefore, Blanche was born in the midst of terror. Her Father always referred to her as a timid child. Besides, Le Forte says that at an early age, Blanche displayed timidity that exceeded that of a child (O'Malley 104). She could tremble to her dog's sudden bark and on seeing a new servant, one would have thought she had seen a ghost. Blanche was fearful of everything even things
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