Talk:Margarita Blankenheim/@comment-8985587-20130502055601/@comment-6192846-20130502112423

There's no need to theorize; the song provides all the information to explain what the sin is. You just need to understand the psychology behind it and know what accedia (sloth) is. You got the "escape" theme in there, which is a derivative of laziness, but you missed the big problem. Sloth has the misconception of being only laziness, mostly due to its English translation from the original Latin.

Margarita's sin is a sequence of events that are due to her own poor actions or lack of actions. First, she gets caught up in a marriage out of her control, not bothering to actually work at forming a real relationship. Predictably, that arranged marriage doesn't work out, crushing her and causing her to fall into a depression. Lingering on her own sorrows and not fixing her problems (the theme of escape you mentioned), she begins projecting her sorrows onto others, denying her own misery, as a defense mechanism to maintain the idea that she is happy (the theme of content you mentioned).

The inevitable reality remains prelevat to her, and her unhappiness due to her own innaction builds up until she finally snaps. Julia gives her a chance to escape and she takes it, still denying her own sadness and claiming it is other people who are unhappy. Still unsatisfied after she has basically rid herself of all her problems, she decides to finally escape from her problems for good by commiting suicide, still chasing after a happiness she never worked to achieve.