Curse of a Rich Polish Peasant on His Sister Who Ran Away with a Wild Man
Curse of a Rich Polish Peasant on His Sister Who Ran Away with a Wild Man - meaning Summary
Family Betrayal and Exile
A Polish peasant speaker bitterly recounts his sister Feliksowa leaving with a wild husband and taking the family cow. He condemns her abrupt departure and lack of respect for kin, describes her as having become bestial in the forest, and casts moral blame on her and her husband for greed and neglecting the church. He expresses a harsh familial curse, mingled with a conflicted appeal about divine punishment.
Read Complete AnalysesFELIKSOWA has gone again from our house and this time for good, I hope. She and her husband took with them the cow father gave them, and they sold it. She went like a swine, because she called neither on me, her brother, nor on her father, before leaving for those forests. That is where she ought to live, with bears, not with men. She was something of an ape before and there, with her wild husband, she became altogether an ape. No honest person would have done as they did. Whose fault is it? And how much they have cursed me and their father! May God not punish them for it. They think only about money; they let the church go if they can only live fat on their money.
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