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fallen Verb the past participle of fall Adjective 1. Old-fashioned (of a woman) having had sex outside marriage 2. killed in battle
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| This view of the fallenness of man is consistent with traditional Christianity, and finds particular resonance in the thought of St. And while Kassell doesn't seem to be operating from a consciously Christian perspective, she arrives at a Christian place, keeping company with a person perceived to be irredeemable, and honoring both his fallenness and his capacity for redemption. Most critics have analyzed the play through a secular hermeneutic--in which its visionary aspects are written off as dreams and drug-induced delusions--or a conservative religious hermeneutic--in which homosexuality is de facto the realm of fallenness and abomination--and thereby fail to detect the strains of prophecy and Kabbalah which provide a coherent religious cosmology amidst disaster and betrayal. |
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