Onibaba & Roswitha

Reading Roswitha and watching Onibaba together seems so right and it brings so many ideas to my mind.

In Roswitha's plays, "Dulcitius" and "Gallicanus", the women are seen as the prize that all the men want. They are beautiful virgins that are very devote to Christianity and refuse to become soiled with man's desires. In Onibaba, though the women are no longer virgins, their power over men is fully shown through their survival.

There is this one part in "Dulcitius" where Dulcitius tries to get the three holy virgins to have sex with him. When flattering them failed, he thought of torturing them.
Seriously?!? -______-;;
As if any girl would fall in love with their torturer, unless they have been in captive long enough to form some bizarre connection with their torturer. And they haven't been captive long enough for this odd love to take form in them.

And how can men be so painfully prideful? Dulcitius just can't seem to grasp the fact that the virgins making an "ass" out of him is all because of his own greed and lust. And what good comes from killing the three virgins? Just the fact that the men need to resort to killing the virgins because they cannot have them shows the power that these girls had over them. Oh, what power women have over men with just their sex. (Not that I will ever resort to that...)