Sunday, October 6, 2013
Urban Women (Vikky Iannotti)
When will it end? I go to bed every night, trembling with outright fear and anticipation. Lately, everything has been getting so much worse. It is September 3rd, 1792. As an urban woman, I cannot escape this nightmare. Constant violence and conflict suffocate me. Every day I wish that I could be free, but my wishes never seem to come true. I always remind myself that there is hope, and hope is what will get me through this. Yesterday, the September Massacres began. The revolutionaries have been bombarding local prisons to justify themselves. My husband was put in prison about a month ago for stealing bread to feed our family. I am scared that he might get killed by the bloodthirsty revolutionaries. The revolutionaries are attempting to kill nobles and priests that could have possibly committed political offenses, such as treason with the invading Prussians. My husband, you see, is innocent of this. He is just an ordinary prisoner, guilty of such offenses, but how can the revolutionaries tell? I pray that they do not kill my husband for something he did not do. What can I do? How can I stop this? There is nothing I can physically do. Yet, I can hope for a better day to appear. Soon, the revolutionaries will have to stop this madness and realize that violence is not always the answer. It saddens me to think that my husband could die an innocent man, but hope is what makes me think that he won't. Tomorrow is a new day, and all I can do is hope that it will be a better one.
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Urban Women (RJ Mathieu).
ReplyDeleteAs a fellow 3rd Estate Lady, I am at your side. The constant allure of what could come has clouded the minds of our fellow revolutionaries. A statement must be spoken against the injustice in placed upon us by the "nobilities," but not this. We must fight, but not overly so. This is a time of hope. Hope for your husband. Hope for the revolutionaries. Hope for your future. And also hope that their is no more of "this" type of killings. To achieve what we first set out to do, we must light the candle to illuminate our way, not leave a blazing trail of death and destruction.
Jacobin (Grace Fitch)
ReplyDeleteOne thing discovered, is that death and destruction are very affective. The people of France should know that better than anyone. The nobility and clergy used destruction to cover up their tracks. They used it to strike fear in our hearts as they killed our beloved. We must repay them with the same death and destruction that they had paid us. As I said, it is affective. We are not wrong, they were. They caused this, not us. Do not blame the revolution for your problems. Blame the first and second estate for provoking it.