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- 691: Cantebury Tales
- ... to take the strain of living a Christian life in the real world, the monks were like spiritual stormtroopers interceding for an area against its supernatural enemies in mudh the same way as a local lord in his castle protected an area against its physical enemies. The people gave gifts to both lord and abbot in return for a service. The Pardoner also represents the tradition of faith -- in respect to the church of his time. The Pardoner is representative of the seamy side of the corrupt church ...
- 692: The Golden Age Of Greece
- ... of mortals. He did not create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt. His breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the gods on Mount ... extant. The ancient statues and pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much advanced in spectacular ways. The statue of Zeus was done for a very good reason. The statue represents being the lord of the sky, the rain god and the cloud gatherer. When I look at this statue, I see a whole bunch of different things, for example, I see a statue that has great muscular shapes ...
- 693: The Crucible - Burn The Witch
- ... on August 19, and Martha Corey on September 22. Not all on the same day, on the same gallows like the movie tries to make everyone think. And the only person executed who recited the Lord's Prayer on the gallows was Rev. George Burroughs. Which caused quite a stir since it was generally believed at the time that a witch could not say the Lord's Prayer without making a mistake. They also would not have been hanged while praying, since the condemned were always allowed their last words and prayers. Giles Corey was not executed for refusing to name ...
- 694: The Decline of Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... are outside, in vigorous, heroic, manly pursuit, training for what is really the purpose of chivalry--the defense of the land and the service of the Church. Clear hierarchies and rules are meticoulously explained; the lord is in the lead, the boldest and most active, and detail is spent in each hunting scene describing the rules of carving and distributing the days spoils. While the hunt is going on Gawain is ... break his agreement with Bertilak. While he has upheld his bargain with the Lady, and performed with spotless courtesy in the game of courtly love, he has had to break his word and disobey the Lord to do it, in a sense choosing Eve's disobedience over the obedience of Mary. Here the poet most strongly criticizes the changing face of chivalry; in his opinion the game of courtly love will ...
- 695: The Influences Of Tolkien In T
- ... such as his elves and hobbits exercise respect and understanding of nature. Living through the Great War and experiencing first hand trench warfare provided the inspiration for the monumental conflict that took place during The Lord of the Rings. The terrible experience of the war must have seemed to Tolkien to be a thing of pure evil with new weapon of destruction tat ravaged the english country side that he loved ... creator. Adoration and respect of nature, his love and mastery of language, and his traumatizing experience in trench warfare during World War I all come together to influence his three major works of fiction, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien uses many themes in the story that relate to his influences. The inescapability of involvement relates to how the US and many other countries were drawn into World War I. The ...
- 696: Marriage Is A Sacrament
- ... that made an indissoluble union, the union of Christ with his Church as his mystical body. The creation story in Genesis is the root of the Church’s understanding of the sacredness of marriage. “The Lord God said: ‘It is not good that a man should be alone’. …Therefore, a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Genesis 2:18,24). God ... the husband’s clan. The Old Testament Jews considered children to be so important to marriage that not having children was something of a curse. “Peninnah, her rival, would torment and humiliate her, because the Lord have kept her from having children” (1 Sm 1:6). Marriage was seen and understood to be holy by the Jews because they see the goodness and the presence of God in ordinary events of ...
- 697: Beowulf: What Makes a Hero?
- ... admirable quality to the Anglo-Saxons. Many times through the story, Beowulf thanks God for allowing his men to stay loyal to him. Beowulf “[took God’s] word, that [his] band is loyal to the lord ” (214-215). Beowulf was loyal to God as a fighter as well. Beowulf fought for the lord .He “gave thanks to God that his grace had granted [his safety]”(161). Beowulf was loyal to God through his journeys and even in his death. An Anglo-Saxon hero thanks God and asks for ...
- 698: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
- ... half of John. John devotes seven chapters, about one-third of his book, to Crucifixion Day, sunset to sunset. Thus all four writers present the one and same Person: the God-Man, Servant of the Lord, King of Israel, humanity's Redeemer. The special emphasis of Matthew is that Jesus is the Messiah foretold by Old Testament Prophets. As he quotes from the Old Testament repeatedly, he seems to have had ... of Jesus the Christ and His life and teachings, the four Gospels present a living, dynamic, unique personality. God became man to work out man's redemption from sin. These four portraits present Him as Lord and Savior, rather than describing all He did and in the precise order in which He did it. They introduce us to Him, rather than to His life as a whole. The Gospels are designedly ...
- 699: The Odyssey
- ... of Odysseus' men die and he is forced to swim days to the island of Alkinoos. Throughout this journey Odysseus’ hubris slowly wears away to completely. This is show when he says, “ O hear me, lord of the stream: how sorely I depend upon your mercy! Derelict as I am by the sea’s anger… Here is your servant; lord, have mercy on me,” (Ody V 467) Finally when Odysseus returns home he is changed to be more humble and has learned many lessons along his journey home. The change in Odysseus is seen when ...
- 700: Ancient Egyptian
- ... means "creator." He is or was for a time, in nearly all accounts of Egyptian mythology, the supreme god. He was "the father of the gods, the fashioner of men, the creator of cattle, the lord of all being". He is the god of the sun in most of these accounts and is shown as a man with a falcon's head. He carries a staff and the symbol for life ... in resurrecting Osiris. Osiris went before the gods and discredited Seth. Having regained life, his reputation, and the throne as ruler of Egypt, Osiris could have stayed on the earth, but instead chose to become lord of the land of the dead, which was believed to exist just past the western horizon. Isis, assisted by Anubis, prepared Osiris for his journey to the land of the dead with the first embalming ...
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