The Book Of Margery Kempe Analysis

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In the text, "The Book of Margery Kempe”, transcribed by an anonymous priest and translated by Lynn Staley, Margery Kempe incited a notion that she was a part of something greater than herself through the transformation of her identify by her performance after her first childbirth, how she dealt with the scared through her crying performances, and how she taught and persuaded those around her to follow God through her religious performances.
Firstly, Kempe’s identity transformed after the birth of her first child, representing that she was a part of something greater than herself because of her ability to transform herself into a devote woman of God. Kempe had found herself attacked by illness after her first child was conceived, and the devil began to appear in her life and convinced her to betray her devotion to religion. She was able to transform this mindset, however, after she had a vision of Jesus. “And anon the creature was stabled in her wits and in her reason as well as ever she was before…” …show more content…

At one point, Kempe attempted to hold her tears in, because she knew the annoyance it caused some. However, she was only capable of withholding them for so long. "When the body might no longer endure the ghostly labor but was overcome with the unspeakable love that wrought so fervently in the soul, then she fell down and cried wonder loud" (Anonymous, 51). This is not the only time Kempe finds herself crying as a result of prayer and religion, which displays how she uses this crying performance tactic to deal with the emotions she experiences when dealing with the sacred. This further demonstrates how Kempe is a part of something larger than just herself, because of influence prayer and religious activities have on her crying

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