POWER AND RELIGION
If we talk about the power and religion in the novel Satan in
Goray, we expect to see another part of human life. A religion can be a power
for human to do bad or good things in their life. As I know from this novel and
other resources from the internet that there was a power in a religion that the
society of Goray believe in it. As I had written on my first thesis of Satan in
Goray. For example, someone who believe with the Sabbatai Zevi’s Religion accoding
to people in Goray, he kept his belief as well. Then if people try to disturb
his belief, or make him doubt with his belief, he can make their life in danger
even kill them. This was an example of Power of Religion. As I respect of this
novel, Satan in Goray means that there was a Messiah (Prophet) that in Goray’s
people opinion he can helped her from the conflicts and tought them about how
to be good person and pray to God. The new Messiah was Sabbatai Zevi who said to
People in Goray “The Evil Will End Soon, and There Was A Messiah, Who Will Come
and Erase Everything.
The Power within a religion in
Goray’s society took them into the destruction of their pride, their life,
their personality even it can kill themselves as well. I take an example from
one of character in this novel, she is Reb Gedaliya (Sabbatai Zevi’s follower),
who marrried with Rechele, the weakness person because he has a limp. By the
end of Rechele’s life, Reb Gedilay took the advantages to spread Zevi’s religion
in Goray and made his position on the top, became the leader of Zevi’s
followers. This was the condition where people in Goray became bad society,
they were in danger of themselves. they lived in evil spirits surround them,
motivated them to follow what Zevi’s said. They were in power of evil. The evil
in it called as the religion. Thus, this was the power as I said in the first.
The power which can bring us into bad things as the example of people in Goray.
They even did not realize that they had lived with The Spirit of Evils, wrong
belief, and they kept stay on it. It was like people of Goray blamed their
status in black magic (Evil) because they did not realize about what they
belief in reality and there was a person within this problem who took the
advantages from people who followed the Evil. Also I know that people of Goray
cannot see real things behind the imitation of something surround them. they
all had covered with Evil. They don’t know about the real things,. This was the
power of Religion which can make people did not know everything. The power of
Religion can controlled them even forget about something more real that can
save them.
As I read from this novel, the
relation between Power and Religion is a person. A person can be very powerful.
When they became powerfull, they can control everything even it deal with
religion (what people believe about God), but by the time people had believed
with this powerfull person, they forget everything. They did not realized what
was real and what was not real in their life. This was the problems of power of something. I can see that people of
Goray had covered with this power, so they cannot escape from this Power of
Evil. I got this opinion what people said that the novel Satan in Goray was
called as a Religious Hysteria because in this novel, it always show something
such as conflict in religious, The Messiah, Belief, God. All of these things
are deal with religious thing.
Refrences
Burgh, d Mark,
2002. Prohpetic and Fabulistic. Amazon.com
Ruether, Radford
Rosemary, 1974. Images Of Women In The Jewish and Christian Traditions.
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