Of Love and Other Demons

With the conclusion of the book, I conceived of one main thing that carries through out the whole entire story. This reoccurring thing was that the feeling of love was often repressed and not acted upon. For instance, the marquis did not begin to love Sierva Maria until she believed to be at risk of dying. The marquis grew to love her but at the end, gave into solidarity and left her alone at the convent. After that, he did not do much to show that he loved her in ways where he could have visited her or wrote her letters. He felt guilty as a sign of the guilt he felt but he did nothing for her after he left her at the convent. Another time in the story where love was repressed was when Delaura began to see Sierva in the cell at the convent. When he began to realize that he was in love with her, he repressed his feelings and blamed her for it in the way that he told the bishop that she is truly possessed. The reason why he told the bishop that is because he thought that lust to be a demon although it was actually his own inner demon. Once he began to see her every night and they both became lovers, there were times where Sierva wanted Delaura to act upon his love. One time was when he was leaving for the night but Sierva told him to stay with her or take her with him. He evaded the whole situation and blatantly left her in the cell. Delaura did not think of a plan to get her out other than of dissuading the bishop that she was not possessed. He could have planned an escape to run away through the tunnels he took late at night. Love through the characters eyes was something that they did not know how to deal with. I believe that it was ultimately what led to Sierva's death of a broken heart from Delaura not coming back to visit in addition to the pain and torment from exorcisms.