For those of you who have already read part one (and this post will seem totally random and make no sense unless you have), it occurs to me that I did not sufficiently clarify the relationship between Prince Hans’ admonition to Elsa not to “become the monster they think you are” and the Garasene demoniac of the Gospels. So I made an addition that I will cite here (addition in bold):
[I]f we read the Gospel account carefully we find that beforehand, the demoniac’s community carefully maintained his status as village outcast by chaining him to the tombs. What results is a vicious circle. The demoniac rages about, breaks his chains, gashes himself with stones…in short, “becomes the monster they think he is.”
Now we can move on…
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