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Here's a little story.
In a small Medieval French village, there lives a young married woman. She is extremely bored and unhappy because her husband is a businessman and is almost never there as he is busy traveling most of the time.
She lives in House A on the left bank.
The village is divided into two parts by a river that flows across the entire village. The villagers have 2 options to go from the left bank to the right bank. They can either use the bridge (just one bridge in the village) or they can take a boat ride and reach the opposite bank. There is just one boatman as it's really a very small village with very few inhabitants.
One fine evening, the young woman decides to go to attend a party thrown by a neighbour who lives in House B also on the left bank. She had invited her and the young woman had said she just might come along.
In the party, the bored young woman starts interacting with the local Romeo (playboy of the village) and allows herself to be charmed and seduced by him.
She leaves with him and spends the night with him in his house, which is House C on the right bank, on the other side of the river.
As soon as dawn breaks, the young woman wakes up and remembers with a start that her husband would be returning from his trip during the early part of the day.
She rushes to the bridge as she wants to be back home before he gets back. As she approaches the bridge, she notices with horror that there is a trigger-happy madman on the bridge shooting anything and everything that comes within his sight.
She takes a U-turn upon seeing this and heads towards the boat. She asks the boatman to ferry her back home. The ride usually costs 5 Euros but given the crisis situation, the boatman wants to make the best of the circumstances and demands 50 Euros upfront. She had not carried her purse in her bag and therefore has no money. She promises the boatman that she would pay him as soon as he drops her on the other side. He would have to wait for just 5 minutes. The boatman refuses. He has many takers and doesn't want to waste a single second.
She goes back to her one-night lover's house and explains the situation to him and asks him to help out. He refuses point blank. In fact he looks at her as if asking who the hell are you??
She remembers that there is this guy who was terribly in love with her and who claimed to still love her but whose feelings she never reciprocated as she considered him as just a good friend and had made it clear to him throughout lived in House D on the same side of the village.
She rushes to his house and explains the whole situation to him, the party the night before, the night spent with the playboy, the madman on the bridge, her husband's imminent return, the boatman's demand, the playboy's refusal to help her and asks him to help her out with the money. She promises him she would return the money very soon. he refuses to help her as he is extremely disappointed with her behaviour and is very upset.
She makes a last-ditch attempt with the boatman once again who also refuses citing the same conditions as before.
She has no choice but to go by the bridge. She approaches the bridge and the madman shoots and kills her.
The young woman is dead.
Now comes the question.
Who, in your opinion, is the one who is most responsible for the untimely death of this young woman, her husband?,, the lover?, the platonic friend?, the boatman?, the madman? or the young woman herself?
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Waiting for your answers my dear friends. Hope this will slightly make Sunday easier.
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