Blog Post #2- Addison
Two words that I have chosen and important are Credit and Virgin from the article Allegory of Publick Credit by Joseph Addison.
Addison uses the term credit as a type of money it can also be an I owe you. I think Addison associates credit with pureness and innocence. This pure and innocence relates to age and the adolescence. The younger you are the less creditable you are due to your age and reputation. As for people of age they are viewed are more creditable, respected with higher authority as opposed to a younger child in this case the virgin. When I hear the term virgin I automatically think of a girl who has not had sex. Someone that is pure and innocent. Addison says, “She was likewise (as I afterwards found) a greater Valetudinarian than any I had ever met with, even in her own Sex, and subject to such Momentary Consumptions, that in the twinkling of an Eye, she would fall away from the most florid Complexion and the most healthful State of Body, and wither into a Skeleton. Her Recoveries were often as sudden as her Decays, insomuch that she would revive in a Moment out of a wasting Distemper, into a Habit of the highest Health and Vigour.“ Something that is virgin is not only associated with the body but can also be a mental thing. Credit can be clean or dirty depending on the surrounding factors. The way he explains credit here it can also be considered as a virgin.
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