person

The Virgin Mary

Mary

also: Mária, Our Lady, Blessed Virgin

Mary, mother of Jesus; Madách argues that by uniting virginity and motherhood in a single divine figure Christianity created an ideal of woman that no previous civilization had achieved.

Reading notes

Drama Fragments (Five Pieces) §20 fire-offering before an image of Mary
Mohol compares his patient love to the eternal flame burned before an icon of the Virgin Mary in Catholic devotion — a deliberately elevated image that Berta deflates with pragmatic common sense.
On Women and Their Vocation §1 Mary
The Virgin Mary as Christian ideal: Madách argues that Christianity uniquely synthesized virginity and motherhood in a single divine figure, raising woman to an honor no earlier civilization had achieved.
Collected Poems (319 Poems, 1837–1864) §5 Homage to Mária
Mária Lósen (Losen), Madách's first love; the poem transfers Marian religious imagery onto the beloved.