... "Tartuffe" both have spiritual, physical, and psychological aspects in each that relate to the theme "Freedom and Bondage". The spiritual element of Frederick Douglass "Slave Narrative" as it relates to "Freedom and Bondage" is religion. Religious freedom was one reason the Europeans came to America. Religious freedom is also the very reason that these European descendants used to hold a race of people in the bondage of slavery. Frederick Douglass explains how religion was used by the master as a shield to hide the grossest and inhumane acts that were done to a race of people the Euro-Americans felt were unlike themselves. "Religious slave owners were the worst," said Frederick Douglas. Owners used the word of God to justify the crimes they inflicted. By using religion as the owner's rationale, they made the slaves feel like there was no hope in God or any other higher being. A life of ...

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