Sacrament of Sacrifice
            
             “Flowering Judas was written between seven o’clock and midnight of a very cold December, 1929, in Brooklyn. The experiences from which it was made occurred several years before in Mexico…”(Porter). These were five hours of clustered, categorized, and explained personage in the form of literature. Katherine Porter revealed the above statement during an interview with Ray West. She would continue to say that the character of Laura “was modeled upon a friend,” but she was a “combination of a good many people” just as her counterpart, Braggioni, was that of some less than admirable ones (Porter).
             Laura is a twenty-two year old American woman who has come to Mexico to work for the Mexican Marxist revolution. Braggioni, the revolutionary leader, intimidates her. Her courtesy extends to Braggioni in the form of listening to his music. Her attention is as an insulating agent from offense to the man. She feels that she has been betrayed. Although she is of Catholic training, in this struggle her training is left wanting. Her feelings are of disillusionment by circumstances, disappointment by life as it is within the revolutionary realm, and disunion between her life and the way life should be. As Porter summed Laura’s ideology, “Still she sits quietly, she does not run. Where could she go? Uninvited she has promised herself to this place; she can no longer imagine herself as living in another country, and there is no pleasure in remembering her life before she came here” (Porter 1701).
             Laura’s disposition is, also, that of a tired woman. She does not feel totally devoted to the revolutionary movement, yet she is not completely committed to humanity, either. “During her leisure she goes to union meetings and listens to quarreling over tactics, methods, politics. She visits the prisoners of her own political faith” (Por...