Comparing Women in Anna Akhmatova’s Lot’s Wife, Crucifixion, and Rache

Powerful Women in Anna Akhmatovas spates Wife, Crucifixion, and Rachel only plentifulnesss wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (New geneva Study sacred scripture, Gen. 19. 26). Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary (the mother of pile and Joseph), and Zebedees wife, the mother of James and John (Matt. 2756). Jacob went over to the well and rolled away the rock candy and watered his uncles flock. Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and tears came to his eyesBut when Jacob woke up in the morning it was Leah What sort of trick is this? Jacob raged at Laban. I worked vii days for Rachel. What do you mean by this trickery? (Gen. 29). These are among the few verses apply to three women of the Bible. No commentary or insight into their inner persons is given. Lots wife turned into a pillar of salt, Mary was nonplus at her sons crucifixion, and Rachels older sister took her settle in the marriage bed. Plain and simple, these are the cold, hard incidents. In her poems Lots Wife, Crucifixion, and Rachel, Anna Akhmatova breathes life into these women by delving into their emotions and painting a picture of them in their surroundings.The Biblical account of Rachel and Jacobs relations gives only the details of their encounters and the fact that Jacob loved Rachel so much that he was willing to work for seven years in order to have her as his wife. When he is deceived and takes Leah instead, the Bible makes no mention of Rachels feelings, which were undoubtedly overpowering. The beautiful young daughter, Rachel, who is stabbed in the back by her sister and father, demands more detail how deeply did this whoremaster affect her? Through imagery, use of detail, and figurative language Akhmatova begins to op... ...tegrating as her legs were stuck to the ground. The snuff it stanza despairs that that no one mourned the death of this woman who dies for the love of her home and emphasizes that women interchangeable Lots wife should not be forgotten.Masterfully, Anna Akhmatova takes three at once women from the pages of the Bible and paints their deepest emotions. These three women deserved to have their inner hearts revealed, and delicately, Akhmatova justifies them to her readers. In her readers minds, Mary, Lots wife, and Rachel are no longer objective women, scarcely true-to-life women who suffer pressing trials. Works CitedAkhmatova, Anna. Rachel. Trans. D. M. Thomas.Anna Akhmatova Selected Poems. New York Penguin, 1985. New geneva Study Bible. New King James Version. Nashville Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995.pelvic inflammatory disease 80471Marlow Engl. 12. Sect. 37