The main story I read that really
caught my attention was the Bible Women: Bathsheba. In this story, the main
character is a female who has an affaire on her husband with King David. It is
a bit surprising to consider this a woman role since she did something that
people look down upon. But regardless of her actions, Bathsheba was a woman
figure. In the story, Bathsheba’s husband had been away to war for a year and
she missed having someone around to love her. When the King saw her bathing on
the roof one day, he had someone go and fetch Bathsheba to bring her back to
the castle. It does not say in the story, however, how voluntary she was to
the affair. Not saying she was forced, but times were different back then and
having the King ask for you specifically and wanting to have relations is
probably hard to say no to. Also, the fact that after she found out her husband had died she was really torn up about it, which makes me think that she wasn’t ever
over her husband.
Another theme that is showed by the
King is being inspirational and modeling to what not to be. He not only called this female to have an
affaire with him but he also sent her husband to the front lines in the battle
so he would die and that the two could marry because he got her pregnant. Since
this is in the bible, this is showing morals about marriage and death. It is
taboo for one to cheat on their spouses and it is also looked extremely down
upon and very illegal to murder someone. As the story continued onto another
story it adds that the lord was upset with the King’s actions.
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