There have been many overlapping themes throughout all of the read so far this semester. The ones I find in most readings are religion, love, power, and the role of the male and female and how they are portrayed. Overall, I feel as though love and the role of the different sexes are the two most common. Though the themes of love and different roles change with each reading, both of these themes can be found within the Decameron. In one of the stories, both the roles of the usual male and female are reversed. The male in love gets all the blame and in reality he is the one who's innocent. He is also the one who wants to love and be loved by the woman, and the woman for once isn't playing this role. Also in another story, a strange type of love is shown. In this story the woman loves her husband so much that she allows him to torture her, murder their children, and he then pretends to abandon her. Even after all this has happened, she still is truthful to him and loves him just the same. I believe that this is a backwards sort of "love" and that none of those actions show or prove that either one loves the other. I guess its true when people say love works in strange ways.
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