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- 351: Merchant Of Venice - Antonio A
- ... a villain. Prejudice doesn't get anyone anywhere. This is probably the strongest message of the play. Antonio's prejudice against Shylock almost got him killed, and Shylock's prejudice against Antonio converted him to Christianity and robbed him of all his possessions. Perhaps the play is neither pro-Jewish, nor pro-Christian, since neither the Jew or the Christian are perfect, they both have faults. After reading The Merchant of ...
- 352: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... can be placed: first are sexual outcasts who, like the playwright, offer insight into Williams's feelings about his own sexuality; second are religious outcasts, who are vehicles for the playwright's commentary on contemporary Christianity; and third, fugitive outcasts, whose flight reflects Williams's own insecurity and alienation. These categories loosely reflect those noted by T.E. Kalem, in his examination of Williams's work: "the odd, the lonely, the ...
- 353: The Will to Believe: James Defends Freely Embraced Faith
- ... in our beliefs. James uses Pascal’s wager as an example. He explains that Pascal’s wager urges us that if we go to masses, take holy water, or act as if we believe in Christianity, we may come to believe in it or that faith will eventually come to us. He plainly disagrees with Pascal because as he said before, we cannot, just by willing ourselves to believe in God ...
- 354: Iliad And Odyssey
- ... treated in the era cave the cave men. Today, it is the exact opposite. In today’s society almost every religion is monotheistic. No major religion believes in more than one God. Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism all have one divine ruler. In the society of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the religion is a type of Greek Mythology; which is a polytheistic religion. There are gods representing every object ...
- 355: Crime And Punishment .
- ... and his rebellion are purely of that kind. He is not vile, he just cannot understand that there might be a solution for such suffering, especially in the case of children who are innocent in Christianity. That is why Ivan asks: Love life more than the meaning of it? (II, 3) Ivan as any average intellectual, wants to know. To know the meaning of life for him is more important than ...
- 356: Political Economy Of The Ancient India
- ... people and involved in Africa and South America as well, was desperately short of manpower. Albuquerque turned his fortresses into settlements to provide a resident population for defense. Intermarriage was encouraged. At the same time, Christianity was encouraged through the church. Goa became an archbishopric. St. Francis Xavier started from Goa on his mission to the South Indian fishermen. The Inquisition was established in 1560. The new mixed population thus became ...
- 357: Chaucer
- ... could and defeated Grendel (Cain). The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf tells much of what society was like in the time periods in which they were written. The reader can tell from Chaucer's work that Christianity play a big part in people's lives and that affected every move that they make. Also many people of the fourteenth century work within the church and that it provided many jobs. In Beowulf ...
- 358: British Literature Women Of Lo
- ... in a stable among beasts is obvious. In a sense, the fact that the author reenacts the Nativity in the farcical scheme with a common thief and his alcoholic wife suggests the Christian notion that Christianity is for everybody—especially the lowly. One of the main points, however, is the charity twice shown by the shepherds: first, to the supposed son of Mak, and second, to Mak and Gill when they ...
- 359: Crime And Punishment 4
- ... and his rebellion are purely of that kind. He is not vile, he just cannot understand that there might be a solution for such suffering, especially in the case of children who are innocent in Christianity. That is why Ivan asks: Love life more than the meaning of it? (II, 3) Ivan as any average intellectual, wants to know. To know the meaning of life for him is more important than ...
- 360: Father Themes In Robinson Crus
- ... was taught how to live and survive on the island. But in actuality, he was taking over most of the work from Crusoe. Crusoe along with teaching Friday the island way, also converted him to Christianity, showing him the error of his “savage” ways. After some period of years, Crusoe offers Friday his freedom to go home, but he refuses to do so without Crusoe in his company. This can be ...
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