The creature is subjected to abuse by her peers and hardships of the road don't help. Why is she referred to as a creature? Is it because her behavior is so inhuman that others refuse to believe that she is human, he must be an entity in it's own class. In her last conversation with god it could be said that Jesus is implying that he is her lover. Using similar language that a lover might use. I also wonder how the story is told from a third person perspective, yet somehow the narrator knows what the creature is thinking and how exactly she is affected by the holy place she visits.
The opening passage the Trail of St. John Mandeville describes a man committing necrophilia. Which seems out of place. Then he hears a voice in his head and somehow thinks it's a good idea to go back to the grave. This is why most people dismiss what they hear in their heads. The text is quite boring, talking about the distances between various cities and describing their cultures. I chuckled when the text says "And then a man passes out of Syria and enters the desert, where the route is very sandy". Well of course its sandy in a desert! The narrator at length describes what a sultan is, that it is a King. That their used to be five of the them. The author relates the journey with bible stories. He talked about how one of the king's that visited Jesus when he was born was one of the five sultan's before there was only one. It then goes on a long winded chronology of of successions that was extremely tiresome to read. It is interesting how many times a Sultan was assassinated just so his brother could be Sultan.
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