Prospero: That cross you wear around your neck - is it only a decoration, or are you a true Christian believer?
Francesca: Yes, I believe - truly.
Prospero: Then I want you to remove it at once. And never to wear it within this castle again!
Do you know how a falcon is trained my dear? Her eyes are sown shut. Blinded temporarily she suffers the whims of her God patiently, until her will is submerged and she learns to serve - as your God taught and blinded you with crosses.
Francesca: You had me take off my cross because it offended...?
Prospero: It offended no one. No - it simply appears to me to be discourteous to... to wear the symbol of a deity long dead.
My ancestors tried to find it. And to open the door that separates us from our Creator.
Francesca: But you need no doors to find God. If you believe...
Prospero: Believe? If you believe you are gullible. Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it?
Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death - They rule this world.
Francesca: There is also love and life and hope!
Prospero: Very little hope I assure you. No. If a god of love and life ever did exist... he is long since dead.
Someone... something, rules in his place.
Adaptation from E. A. Poe
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