Character Analysis: The Nun Of Monza

Lacunas arrival to the convent, Gertrude appears and her vitality story takes up the following two chapters of the novel. Gertrude grew up at a time when a woman had two choices in behavior the first was to find a spouse and have children succession the other option was to become a nun. As a child, Gertrude had no desire to become a nun, but rather dreamt of the day when she could in the long run fall in love. Gertrude father indirectly forced his daughter into proper a nun by giving her dolls dressed as nuns, direct her to Sunday school, and having her read the bible.The brain washed child grew up to having no choice but to move to a convent and take on the life-time long commitment of becoming a nun. The ceremony in which Gertrude accepts her rising being a life devoted to God, she ponders her decision for a morsel with conflicting thoughts rushing through her mind. She debates with herself on whether this is the life she wants or if this is the life society wants. When th e church asks her if Gertrude has chosen to devote her life to God because of her bear desire she causes while looking at her father.After another inner appointment with her emotions, Gertrude finally vows to become a nun. Later on in Gertrude life, she goes to run in a convent located in an Italian town called amazon, thus taking on the name The Nun of Amazon. here she spends her days praying during the day, but living a completely different life during the night. As time goes on she falls in love and develops a forbidden relationship with a man named Goodie whom she has a child with. In her daily fife at the Covent, Gertrude always shows signs of rebellion after having found love.One archetype of her rebellious attitude is portrayed by a loose base of hair falling from her veil. The strand of hair is a symbol of Gestures dislike and disgust towards the church for having made her once free life a life filled with unhappiness and restrictions. The smiling child she once was becomes an smoldering and troubled soul after years of feeling like a prisoner of the church.