This article addresses the role of space in re-imagining a case of
essentialist society as collective gender paranoia of biological
reconciliation, as presented in Margaret Cavendish‟s The Convent of
Pleasure (1668). Using the institution of the R
oman Catholic
convent, Cavendish‟s play interrogates biological polarity and
disavows establishing reversed gender hierarchies of empowerment
and subservience. To this effect, the play suggests a communal
psychosis, being delusively constructed by antagonistic biological
differences that generate both sexes‟ denial of cyborg or hybridized
dualism in their gender identification. In this regard, the presented
argument addresses several critical lacunae in the scholarship of The
Convent of Pleasure.
Feuerbach tried to make the power of love a kind of power that cannot be matched
with any other power as love defeats all his opponents even if God is one of them. Love is
always victorious. That's what made the concept of love in Feuerbach’s ideas
a
distinguished and unprecedented concept comparing to all concepts handled by those
philosophers before him. This kind of love dominates the body and soul together and it is
inseparable from our body, may not live outside our soul, it is the basis of the body and the
essence of the spirit.
Feuerbach wanted to make love a link between a mankind and another so there is no
love if one existence and the other is absent. Feuerbach doesn’t limit himself at this point
but goes on to ignore the existence of human being without being in love or loved by other
person. That who does not love does not exist, even religion has neither benefit nor
importance if it is not based on love because love is the reason and core in other words
love is the reason behind the existence of religion.
