![]() There is little attempt to understand the women their purpose is to control, conquer, and eradicate them. The title's significance seems ironic and laughable since the men who preach about God's mercies show little if any mercy to the women they are trying to convert. ![]() However, when Kurstsson implores God's mercies upon the survivors of the 1617 Christmas Eve hurricane, it is challenging to convince independent-thinking women that there is any value to believing in this modern God about whom Kurtsson and Cornet preach. Kirsten and Maren show mercy to Pastor Kurtsson, the local man of the cloth. ![]() It follows Maren, who watched as all the village men died in a storm and has had to find a way to survive those losses, and Ursa, the daughter of a merchant who was married off to a witch hunter before being brought north. Maren shows mercy to the birds whose eggs she snatches. A chilling and captivating book taking place in a Norwegian village in the 1670s, The Mercies is a story of resilience. Maren, the protagonist, shows mercy to Ursa, the naive city girl whose marriage to the sinister religious commissioner Absalom Cornet has been arranged. The dictionary says that mercy is compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone to whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. The dictionary says that mercy is compassion or for …more The word "mercies" appears eleven times in this novel, a few more if you include other word forms. ![]() Linda Loretz The word "mercies" appears eleven times in this novel, a few more if you include other word forms. ![]()
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