Jesus Christ Character Analysis

Christianity holds that Jesus Christ was the son of God, and the Savior of mankind from sin. Born to a human woman, Mary, Christ preached love, equality, and understanding, and amassed a large following that made him a liability to the Roman government occupying Palestine. Jesus was betrayed by one of his 12 apostles and was then crucified—but, according to the Bible, he rose from the dead days later to prove to his followers that he was the son of God. In her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth invokes the figure of Christ as she claims that in all her suffering as an enslaved woman, Christ was the only one who listened to her cries of grief. But Christ, Truth asserts, has been used for ill means by Christian religious leaders across the U.S. She states that preachers and reverends claim that women can’t have the same rights as men because Christ was not a woman—but Truth provocatively points out, at a key moment in her speech, that Christ was the creation of God and a human woman, and thus men had nothing to do with the creation of Christ. Additionally, Christ’s Last Supper—which he attended along with his 12 apostles, creating a total of 13—has a symbolic connection to the “thirteen children” Truth speaks of having birthed into slavery.