Post by invisiblescientist on Oct 27, 2009 0:19:30 GMT -5
There seems to be an important connection between Mary O'Brian and Joan of Arc.
When I was in high school one of the subjects I studied was the trial of Joan of Arc, and how she was burned by politicians who framed her as a heretic in order to discredit her. When the evil Bishop Pierre Cauchon and his collaborators realized that Joan of Arc was illiterate, they made her sign documents that she could not understand, and they interrogated her in such a way that she would look like a heretic.
www.stjoan-center.com/novelapp/joaap02.html
When I was a kid, I was so shocked when I studied these machinations that led to the burning of Joan of Arc after a dishonest trial, that had I been present at that trial, I would have asked the judge to burn me instead of that brave and noble being.
(Joan of Arc interrogated by The Cardinal of Winchester in her prison (1824).)
Despite all the manipulations and intimidations used against Joan of Arc, she maintained her dignity, she remained defiant until the end, and the judges and interrogators were unable to make her give up her principles.
Since childhood experiences are impossible to forget, and since I was so much more naive and a lot less cynical when I was a kid, maybe this is why I was very impressed by the defiant and noble behavior of Mary O'Brian who was like a Joan of Arc in the Equilibrium movie, especially how courageously and brilliantly she answered the questions of the interrogator Cleric John Preston. Therefore, for me, the Mary O'Brian character in EQ remains a perfect incarnation of Joan of Arc. Probably this was one of the main reasons I am a fan of the EQ movie... The Mary O'Brian character represented the same Jungian archetype of courage and nobility that had an effect during my childhood. Of course, especially because of the scene where Cleric Preston made a desperate last attempt to save Mary, I was very influenced by EQ.
(Joan of Arc burned on 30 May 1431.)
(The futuristic archetype of Joan of Arc defiant until the end, but she does save Libria indirectly.)
When I was in high school one of the subjects I studied was the trial of Joan of Arc, and how she was burned by politicians who framed her as a heretic in order to discredit her. When the evil Bishop Pierre Cauchon and his collaborators realized that Joan of Arc was illiterate, they made her sign documents that she could not understand, and they interrogated her in such a way that she would look like a heretic.
www.stjoan-center.com/novelapp/joaap02.html
When I was a kid, I was so shocked when I studied these machinations that led to the burning of Joan of Arc after a dishonest trial, that had I been present at that trial, I would have asked the judge to burn me instead of that brave and noble being.
(Joan of Arc interrogated by The Cardinal of Winchester in her prison (1824).)
Despite all the manipulations and intimidations used against Joan of Arc, she maintained her dignity, she remained defiant until the end, and the judges and interrogators were unable to make her give up her principles.
Since childhood experiences are impossible to forget, and since I was so much more naive and a lot less cynical when I was a kid, maybe this is why I was very impressed by the defiant and noble behavior of Mary O'Brian who was like a Joan of Arc in the Equilibrium movie, especially how courageously and brilliantly she answered the questions of the interrogator Cleric John Preston. Therefore, for me, the Mary O'Brian character in EQ remains a perfect incarnation of Joan of Arc. Probably this was one of the main reasons I am a fan of the EQ movie... The Mary O'Brian character represented the same Jungian archetype of courage and nobility that had an effect during my childhood. Of course, especially because of the scene where Cleric Preston made a desperate last attempt to save Mary, I was very influenced by EQ.
(Joan of Arc burned on 30 May 1431.)
(The futuristic archetype of Joan of Arc defiant until the end, but she does save Libria indirectly.)
