Question

A life-loving man was forced to live like a monk. Is the statement true in Mandela’s context? Explain

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A monk (/mʌŋk/, from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus)[1][2] is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedicate his life to serving all other living beings, or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live his or her life in prayer and contemplation. The concept is ancient and can be seen in many religions and in philosophy...

Nelson Mandela is one of an older, gracious man who emerges from gaol unbowed and not embittered. A man, who after nearly 10,000 days of imprisonment, with much of the time spent breaking rocks on Robben Island, extends a hand of peace and reconciliation to all those who embrace his vision of a truly democratic South Africa, in which race no longer determines who votes and who rules. A man who had every reason to despise white South Africans but sought to reach out to them as equals.

But this man of forgiveness was once a warrior, standing proud and strong before a South African court, dressed in a traditional leopard skin cloak and holding a defiant fist in the air.

And this freedom fighter was once a boy, born to play a tribal role in his ancestral homeland of rolling hills and fertile valleys.........