Thursday, September 19, 2013

Judith

I think the MDQ is "Will Judith sleep with Holofernes?" I did not know much about this play when I started reading. I thought the main conversation was about sex. When we first see Judith we assume she is there to sleep with Holofernes. She wanted to get him into a vulnerable position. She thought sleeping with him would accomplish this. They do not sleep together. When he decides to go to sleep I think she knows he will be vulnerable then.
I found it strange that he says he was pretending to sleep. It makes me think he wanted to die, or maybe he didn't care either way.
When she tries to sleep with him after he is dead, I think she feels bad for killing him and wants to have his child in order to carry on his name. Although Judith does not sleep with Holofernes, I think she fell in love with him and was driven mad by what she had to do.

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