Is Angela’s connection with her past selves a gift or a curse?
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Is Angela’s connection with her past selves a gift or a curse?
Is Angela’s connection with her past selves a gift or a curse?
Do you think her visions of Fioretta and Sophia are credibly portrayed in the novel?
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Yes, but she also meets the love of her life due to her visions. More than that, she realizes she can change her fate and she actually does it in the end. Besides, wouldn't you like to know who you were in your past lives?
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Yeah, it might be interesting just to know it. But if it troubles the serenity of my current life, then I would not think of it as a blessingcristinaro wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 00:20Yes, but she also meets the love of her life due to her visions. More than that, she realizes she can change her fate and she actually does it in the end. Besides, wouldn't you like to know who you were in your past lives?
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I guess you are closer to Angela than me. She also considers it a curse throughout most part of the novel. As far as I am concerned, I'd love to know who I was in my past lives at least for one simple reason. I'd thus know I'd still have the chance to live a future life.Sushan wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 11:02Yeah, it might be interesting just to know it. But if it troubles the serenity of my current life, then I would not think of it as a blessingcristinaro wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 00:20Yes, but she also meets the love of her life due to her visions. More than that, she realizes she can change her fate and she actually does it in the end. Besides, wouldn't you like to know who you were in your past lives?
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I think her connection is a curse. She has an irresistible attraction for Alex, to the extent she kisses him and converses without knowledge. That by itself is the stuff of nightmares. As the story progresses, she turns from a highly educated, strong woman into a weepy ghost of her former self. By the end of the story, Angela is hardly recognizable anymore.cristinaro wrote: ↑01 Jun 2018, 23:21 Although Angela Renatus claims she does not believe in fate, she finds herself swept off her feet by the irresistible attraction she feels for Alex Caine, a man she barely knows.
Is Angela’s connection with her past selves a gift or a curse?
Do you think her visions of Fioretta and Sophia are credibly portrayed in the novel?
I do not think either Fioretta or Sophia are portrayed credibly. Neither woman fit what would have been demanded of women in those time periods, but this novel was never meant to be strictly realistic. I have never met an old Italian man who would allow a female family member to go off by herself to a city, especially during war. Sophia's brothers would never have allowed her to stay in Florence during the war.
Assuming past selves are true, ignorance is the only thing that would save us from their faults. Angela may have found a painting, but she also agitated and upset an old woman to do so. Angela is even groped by the ghost of her past self's lover. Her knowledge of the past seems to bring no peace, despite the author insisting at the end that this is a gift, not a curse.
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If Angela's story is an example of how past life regression will play out for us all, I think this curse is something most people can live without. I agree with Sushan that her life would have been less eventful and that this is a curse. She was attracted to Alex at the bar before she knew about her past life, and may have come to know him without the supernatural element.cristinaro wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 00:20Yes, but she also meets the love of her life due to her visions. More than that, she realizes she can change her fate and she actually does it in the end. Besides, wouldn't you like to know who you were in your past lives?
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