![]() ![]() From the journeys of these two characters, Kristin and Julia, a powerful depiction of the tyrannical nature of sin and the victory of God’s patient grace emerges. The human soul’s struggle to follow its own disordered will instead of aligning it with its loving Creator’s is the universal tale, mirrored a thousand times in good literature. But Kristin Lavransdatter and Brideshead Revisited share the same themes that all the best stories have in common: sin and grace. Kristin is a mother of many and she lives to become a grandmother. Separated not only by geography and several centuries, Kristin and Julia’s lives are very different. Each woman is raised in a devout Catholic home and yet is caught between her own passions and her love for God. In Brideshead Revisited, British novelist Evelyn Waugh brings another multi-layered female character to life: Lady Julia Flyte, a wealthy heiress living decadently in 20 th century England. She wrestles with the weight of sin, her refusal to reconcile her will with God’s, and the suffering that accompanies her wayward decisions. ![]() ![]() Set in the fourteenth century, the saga follows the life of Kristin, one of the most complex female characters of 20 th century literature, from womb to tomb. “All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path,” confesses Kristin Lavransdatter, a wealthy Norwegian noblewoman and titular character of Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset’s three-part novel. ![]()
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