Richard is starting to recognize his fate. As they pass through the Abbey he uses this as an opportunity to reflect on his life and to observe his faith.
"Richard was no whining monk to lament the inevitable, and tamely to await the result. To see an evil was to spur him to seek a remedy: he had given up every expectation of reigning, except such as sprung from his right, and faith in the justice of God" (400).
Richard is being moved and he goes through New Forest on his way to Southampton. He is more desperate as is bondage becomes noticable.
"Clim of the Lyn, my merry man, thou art to track us through the New Forest to Southampton" (400).
"Thus thought Richard; and at that moment, with his limbs aching through their bondage, and with thorbbing temples, liberty in the free forest seemed worth more than a kingdom" (400).
Description: The image shows a pastoral setting with a stream that passes through New Forest.
Richard starts to get a sense of his poisition, recognizing that his resources are near depleted and he is a prisoner.
"Some miles to the east of Yeovil there was a deep stream, whose precipitous banks were covered by a thick underwood that almost concealed the turbid waters, which undermined and bared the twisted and gnarled roots of the various overhanging trees or shrubs" (396).
Providence, Rhode Island, was where much of Gilman's youth was spent and where she was able to be herself. Most of her friends were male, and she was described as a "tomboy," she stated that this was a moment in her life, where she felt unashamed.
