When people of the 21st century, with spiritualized persons, talk about violating their rights and freedoms, they regularly refer to many rich terms with a long history. However, few representatives of the younger generation are able to adequately assess the inconsistency of the statement made and the words used. A vivid example is enslavement. The word arose in Russia, and meant a very unpleasant process for a free person.
From action to fact
To understand historical processes, one must gradually plunge into the depths of centuries. The concept under study splits into two possible options:
- enslavement of someone;
- the result of such an action.
The speaker may imply the specific terms of the contract with the bank, which, due to many small points, puts the borrower in a hopeless situation. And it will be as close as possible to the original value. Usually implies:
- financial failure;
- emotional, spiritual, intellectual submission.
How did such a harsh definition develop?
In the time of the princes
The Russian people legal relations arose quite early. Particular attention was paid to property: both personal belongings and slaves. Despite the absence of a mass slave trade, citizens understood what enslavement meant, they barely needed a fair amount. How? For this there were:
- a debt obligation in which the borrower becomes personally dependent on the lender;
- a special option of slavery based on such an obligation.
This was called “bondage,” which later gave the name to the process of entering into such a relationship. The term was also used outside the host’s relations with the animate thing. They usually indicate the crisis economic situation of the exploited person. And in a figurative sense, they say about the psychological inability to break out of the control of others.
In modern society
The credit example is the most frequent case when “enslavement” enters the speech, albeit in a milder form than the original. The allegorical value is much worse when discussing domestic violence, problems at work or in a children's team. Cases of actual slavery are extremely rare, but even its formal characteristics or the humiliating position of a powerless subordinate cause irreparable harm to the psyche.
Appropriate use
Enslavement is an ordinary historical term. There is nothing terrible or reprehensible in it, you can safely include it in scientific works, mention it in public speeches. But if you try to use as a hyperbola, the speech will turn out to be pathetic. The word is closely connected with an incredibly difficult phenomenon, against which the majority of modern problems look ridiculous. Do not drive yourself into stamps, and then the struggle for freedom will be effective!