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Locked Away in a Monastery
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A trope often found in a Standard Royal Court: When someone in power (e.g. the monarch) wants a person (e.g. an heir, a spouse, or a favorite) removed from public sight but are unwilling to kill them (e.g. because of Royal Blood, or because they actually just want to protect them), they will make them take the vows at a remote monastery/nunnery. This way, the newly-made monk/nun will be permanently restricted in movement and any voluntary or assisted attempt to return to secular life will be considered a sacrilege. Also, celibacy means they won't have children. In a less permanent variation, convents of nuns are also a popular choice for wealthy families to place their daughters in until they marry: they'll have a strict upbringing, education, and more or less guaranteed virginity. Bonus points for not needing to provide the kid with class-relevant and expensive dresses while she is kept there.note An example of a guest resident of a convent is Ximena in El Cid. Such women might be forced to Take the Veil, usually if they had a substantial inheritance coming and the family wanted to keep control of it. As the Real Life section shows this was very much Truth in Television for European (and especially Greek/Eastern Roman) royalty during the Middle Ages, where deposed or abdicated rulers and other undesirable claimants were often permitted to retire to a monastery (willingly or less so) as an alternative to killing them. Sub-Trope of The Exile, Reassigned to Antarctica, and Kicked Upstairs (in the sense that the failed courtier of earthly monarchs is now serving the Lord of Heaven). Related to Man in the Iron Mask. Not Get Thee to a Nunnery, where it appears that someone is threatening a woman with this but it is actually a Double Entendre. Examples |
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Exploited in Romeo X Juliet, where Romeo's mother Lady Portia Montague willingly locks herself into a convent to dis-associate herself from her husband after he wipes out the whole Capulet clan. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: In Brightly Burning, when Lavan Chitward's Gift of Firestarting first manifests, it results in the (unintended) deaths of several of the bullies who had been tormenting him including the leader, a boy named Tyron Jelnack. Tyron's mother Jisette Jelnack goes insane with rage and grief; after she tries twice to get revenge against Lavan (who is now a Herald-Trainee and therefore sacrosanct), she is sentenced to life in a cloistered monastery, where she will live out her days in a cell with a sealed door and one small window. | |
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In the Dragon Age series: In Dragon Age: Origins, Alistair, a bastard son of King Maric, was sent away to a monastery at age 10 for safekeeping. He trained for the The Order of Templars, but joined the Grey Wardens before taking the vows. Sebastian, third prince of Starkhaven in Dragon Age II, was given to the priesthood in his late teens for being a complete embarrassment to his family. Unusually for this trope, he grew to like his new state and matured rapidly into one of the most reasonable party members. |
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Mentioned in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing: When Hero has been falsely denounced as unfaithful, the priest's Plan B is to quietly ship her off to a nunnery where she can live out the rest of her days in anonymity. | |
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A rather long subplot in The Forest of Hands and Teeth focuses on the protagonist joining the Sisterhood because she has no other options in her outrageously strict society, although she desperately does not want this. Subverted because, like everything else in the novel, it goes horribly awry. | |
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Attila: After Honoria conspires to usurp her brother Valentinian as ruler of Rome, he sends her away to a puritanical Christian convent in the Eastern Roman Empire. She tries to get out of there by promising Attila half the Roman Empire as dowry if he marries her, which is just the pretext that he had been waiting for. | |
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This can happen in Crusader Kings. It's treated just like death in the first game. This trope makes a return in the second game's '"Sons of Abraham"' expansion - however, this time the characters remain in your court and may serve as advisers and chaplains, while disinheriting inconvenient dynastic members from the line of succession. Doesn't stop factions from trying to install them into power, though. | |
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CSI: NY: A variation where a kidnap victim is handcuffed to a wall in an abandoned monastery. Unfortunately, he gets desperate and gnaws off his hand in an attempt to escape, but dies of blood loss before making it out. | |
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In the distant backstory of The Belgariad, the Tolnedran Empire invaded the neighboring gold-rich nation of Maragor. The Marags were slaughtered to (almost) the last one. In response, the Tolnedrans' own god, Nedra, commanded that the merchants who had instigated the invasion be sent to found a monastery at the Marag city of Mar Terrin, and spend the rest of their lives surrounded by the ghosts of the slaughtered Marag men, women, and children, while they attempted to comfort the souls of the dead. | |
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The Mermaid's Daughter: Kathleen's great-grandmother, Caolinn, was a lesbian in The '40s. She and her lover, Marie, couldn't be open about their relationship. After Caolinn was raped and impregnated, they agreed that they would live together as spinsters and raise her child together. But Marie's father forced her into a convent. They never saw each other again, and after Caolinn's daughter was born, she committed suicide. Seventeen years later, Kathleen and her girlfriend Harry meet the elderly nun Marie by chance at a pub, where Marie recognizes Kathleen's resemblance to Caolinn. | |
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Sister Act is a version with a modern theme. After witnessing a murder committed by her mobster ex-boyfriend, Dolores is sent to a convent where she poses as a nun as part of a witness protection program. | |
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This is how Fernanda Buendia del Carpio deals with her daughter Meme in One Hundred Years of Solitude, after she has Meme's secret boyfriend Mauricio gunned down when he was sneaking into their home. | |
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The Cadfael series uses this at least once or twice. In one episode, "The Devil's Novice," the main suspect in a murder is sent to live in Brother Cadfael's monastery, because the clergy are not subject to secular law. | |
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In The Lady's Not for Burning, Alizon is an example of the guest-upbringing version, and has just left the nunnery to prepare for her Arranged Marriage. She mentions that her father had at one point despaired of finding husbands for all his daughters (she's the youngest of six) and considered making the arrangement permanent. | |
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The Elenium: This was the punishment of Arissa, the very wanton sister of the previous king. She was sent to a convent because she couldn't be executed, and made life miserable for everyone there. This ended up backfiring on the main characters. The convent was lightly defended and the nuns were massacred when Arissa's accomplices sprung her. A minor character (a Pelosian noble) ships his son off to a monastery (with the threat of forcing him to take vows and turning the inheritance over to a cousin) after the son tries bullying a party of Church Knights. He also announces that he'll be sending his wife to a convent, since it was her spoiling of her only child that produced a son who would try to bully Church Knights. |
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Retribution Falls. Captain Frey once seduced the daughter of a powerful businessman, who packed her off to a religious hermitage. When he infiltrates the hermitage to get her help (because her father has framed Frey for an assassination) her initial response it to try and kick Frey's head in, because her last letter had the coordinates of the hermitage and she's been waiting two years for him to rescue her. Frey pretends he never received the letter and that he's spent the past two years searching for her. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, Alistair, a bastard son of King Maric, was sent away to a monastery at age 10 for safekeeping. He trained for the The Order of Templars, but joined the Grey Wardens before taking the vows. | |
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In The Tudors this is put forward as an option for Queen Catherine of Aragon, as it was in real life. Obviously, she doesn't take it. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: Byzantine Emperor Michael V exiles his aunts Zoe and Theodora (who are actually of royal blood, unlike him) to convents (as happened in actual history), but they're much more popular and he's forced to bring them back. After Michael is overthrown, the victors force him to live out the rest of his life as a monk—after blinding and castrating him. | |
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In The Nanny episode, "The Kibbutz", Maxwell considers sending Maggie to a Swiss convent over the winter break to stop her from spending the entire break making out with her boyfriend. | |
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In the Mass Effect series, Asari with the Ardat-Yakshi genetic defect are given a choice between isolation in a monastery or execution. The Ardat-Yakshi are effectively succubi and their condition causes them to kill people by mating with them; the rationale is that because the effects are addictive, they cannot be trusted to naturally abstain from sex/murder if allowed amongst the general populace. We meet three full-fledged Ardat-Yakshi during the course of the games (codex entries suggest that there is actually a "spectrum"). The first one fled when presented with the option of going to the monastery and has become an opportunistic, sociopathic Serial Killer and a walking argument for their seclusion. The other two agreed to the monastic seclusion and are perfectly normal, moral people. There are references to some of the Ardat-Yakshi imprisoned alongside them being allowed supervised reintegration into asari society because they proved during their isolation that they have both the desire and the willpower to do so. | |
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Brother Aiden in The Monk And The Viking was sent to a monastery as a toddler because he was illegitimate. | |
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In the Degrassi: The Next Generation two-parter "Accidents Will Happen," Manny (a Filipino-Canadian) is terrified of telling her parents about her pregnancy, because she doesn't want to end up like her cousin back in the Philippines who got sent to a convent. | |
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Eventually happens to Maria Clara on Noli Me Tangere. | |
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Pope Joan: At Fulda one of Johanna's fellow monks is locked away in the monastery by his father. After the death of Pope Joan, the corrupt priest Anastasius finally gets his wish when he is elected Pope. However, he quickly wears out his welcome with the church and people of Rome. Anastasius is deposed and locked away in a monastery. |
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After Cersei's "miscarriage" and blatant but deniable attempted murder of Lyarra and Gwyn in Bequeathed from Pale Estates gets Cersei sent to a brutal Mother House to cool the bad PR. Cersei is sent to a Mother House in hopes of either a) having her pray for her fertility and having the brutal nuns whip Cersei figuratively and literally into being a more humble and grateful person or b) having Cersei go crazy when all her comforts are taken away so Robert could be free to marry someone else. | |
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In the ending of The Crumpets episode "Super Pfff", the titular character was supposed to be punished for performing poorly in his internship by meditating for a week in a monastery along with his rich cousin. Instead, Cassandra, who is disguised as Pfff so she can prevail a Love Triangle for him, gets airlifted by the helicopter. | |
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In The Goblin Emperor, this was Maia's intended fate if the attempted coup to place his teenage nephew on the throne had been successful. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, The Night's Watch is frequently used for this purpose. While it's a military order, its location on the edge of civilization in the frozen North and the vows of chastity and non-inheritance its brothers take mean that anyone sent there is rendered fairly harmless. Two examples stand out: Sam Tarly, in particular, was ordered by his father to join the Watch so that his much younger brother could become the heir in his stead. The possibility of his joining religious or scholarly orders was raised, but brusquely dismissed by the extremely militant father. Aemon Targaryen does this twice over, first by joining the Maesters who give up all claim to their family name (at the time, he was far down the line of succession), then being assigned to the Night's Watch. However after his father's death he was offered the opportunity to leave the Maesters, the High Septon offering to absolve him... but he turned it down so his younger brother Aegon could become King. Aemon then joined the Night's Watch so he couldn't be used to oppose his brother. |
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This is common as both a threat and an actual practice in the Videssos books. Not surprising as the Empire of Videssos is the Byzantine Empire with magic. People who just need to be out of the public eye can get exiled to a monastery in the capital, but the people who need to be Reassigned to Antarctica get sent to a monastery in Prista, on the border with the Pardrayan steppes. | |
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Angelina Dorma is sent to a nunnery in the end of The Shadow of the Lion. | |
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In Salamander, former cop Carl Cassimon resigns from the force after killing a man in a bungled operation. He is also suffering guilt over an affair with his best friend's wife. He elects to lock himself away in a monastery to work out his guilt (he doesn't actually take any monastic vows). Although this is, admittedly, in Belgium. Where monks brew (and drink) seriously good beer, and the monastery is equipped with other aids to spiritual contemplation such as a snooker table and Internet-capable computers. | |
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The Moon and the Sun has the less permanent kind. After Marie-Josèphe's parents died, her older brother sent her to live for five years in a convent, where she was miserable. She was forbidden from listening to or composing music or learning about the natural world, and was punished harshly for asking the wrong questions. | |
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In the Arcia Chronicles, Charles Tagere wanted to do this to his hunchback son Alexander but died before Alexander came of age. Charles' heir then overruled his father's decision and made Alexander a general. Also, this trope always goes horribly wrong with women who are sent to become nuns of the Cialinan Order: the Order is, in fact, an Ancient Conspiracy of power-hungry witches. | |
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Happens more than once in the Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz: The corrupt regents in the "Heirs of Saint Camber" trilogy do their best to push Javan Haldane into taking vows so they can name his younger and more malleable brother Rhys Michael as heir to the throne of Gwynedd. It doesn't work, so they murder Javan a year into his reign, and Rhys Michael ends up on the throne anyway. Edmund Loris, a violently anti-Deryni archbishop of Kelson Haldane's time, is exiled to a remote monastery by the Gwynedd Curia (the council of bishops who runs the Church in Gwynedd) after the events of High Deryni. It's considered a merciful alternative to executing him. Unfortunately, he escapes, and becomes a leader of the Mearan rebellion against Kelson Haldane. Princess Caitrin of Meara is permitted to retire to a nunnery for the rest of her life after her rebellion against Kelson is defeated in The King's Justice. In an interesting twist, Kelson's mother Jehana does this to herself twice. First, she goes into seclusion after she discovers that her husband King Brion wields Deryni powers, and intends to pass them on to their newborn son Kelson. Later, she returns to the nunnery in a desperate attempt to make peace with herself and God after she discovers she herself has Deryni blood. |
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Beauregard from Critical Role. Her strict and abusive upbringing turned her into a rebellious delinquent, and her father paid a significant amount of money for her to be dragged off to a Cobalt Soul monastery so he wouldn't have to deal with her anymore. This resulted in Beau having absolutely zero trust in the Soul as an organization dedicated to checks and balances, and leaving to lead a life of drinking and petty crime as soon as she was physically able to. It later turns out that the Cobalt Soul as a whole was not responsible for this — Archivist Zeenoth, Beau's mentor, pocketed the bribe himself, and was arrested after Beau's offhand accusation of kidnapping to Expositor Dairon prompted a large-scale investigation. Yudala Fon, the High Curator of the Cobalt Soul, gave Beau a personal apology, and assured her that they'd do everything in their power to prevent this from happening again. | |
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In Blindsprings, the Alt Text of this comic describes Princess Tamaura as having lived in one prior to being made priestess in place of her sister Aliana, something that earned Aliana's ire. It's also been strongly implied that Tammy is actually a Heroic Bastard who was born out of wedlock, suggesting this was another reason she was sent away. | |
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At the start of Lady Ninja Kaede, the Emperor has banished Madam Yumeama to a convent to prevent her from employing her ninja sex techniques. | |
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A variant in Blackadder: In "The Archbishop", King Richard IV totally doesn't have the Archbishop of Canterbury assassinated and then appoints Prince Edmund (second in line to the throne and The Unfavorite) to replace him, the idea being to ensure that the Church does what Richard wants as well as getting Edmund out of court. Edmund manages to get himself expelled from the priesthood and excommunicated by the end of the episode. | |
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In Pushing Daisies, Aunt Lily sends Olive to a nunnery to protect the secret she accidentally blabbed, although that lasts for a very short time. And Aunt Lily knew about the nunnery because she was sent there herself as a youth to hide a pregnancy. | |
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A xianxia variant in Another Time, Another Place, Another Story — any scion from a wealthy family needs to renounce their rights to the family business if they want to cultivate immortality in earnest. It mainly happens with the younger kids, so the Shen family isn't really bothered when their third son picks this path. | |
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In Sharpe's Honour, la Marquesa de Casares el Grande gets confined in a convent so she can't contradict the faked evidence that's supposed to convict Sharpe for murder. | |
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Final Fantasy Tactics: Princess Ovelia spent her childhood being brought up in a monastery before the plot started. Or at least, that's the "official" story. The truth is, the real princess died at a very young age, so the royal family picked an orphan around the same age to pass off as the princess. | |
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In the original Hans Christian Andersen version of The Little Mermaid, the prince falls in love with a young woman from the local nunnery who finds him shortly after the mermaid pulls him from the water. Resigned to never being with her, the prince considers marrying the mermaid, when it is revealed the young woman was never a nun, but a princess being educated there. (And in some versions, she was his arranged fiancée as well.) They marry and live happily ever after. The mermaid...not so much. | |
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In Flavia the Heretic, the nobleman father of Flavia beheads her lover and locks her away in a seaside convent. | |
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Sebastian, third prince of Starkhaven in Dragon Age II, was given to the priesthood in his late teens for being a complete embarrassment to his family. Unusually for this trope, he grew to like his new state and matured rapidly into one of the most reasonable party members. | |
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The Highborn in Chronicles of the Kencyrath sends those who are too obviously Shanir (i.e. weird) to the Priest's College and out of the way. | |
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The Sunne in Splendour: This is George, the Duke of Clarence's plan for his sister-in-law Anne Neville. At least, that's the most optimistic version and the one he tells his wife, Anne's sister Isabel. Anne's loyal servant, Veronique, suspects George might have something even worse in mind. Whatever the case, Anne and Veronique run away before George's men can take Anne away, hiding in an inn until Richard of Gloucester rides to Anne's rescue. | |
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