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- 831: The Archetypal Hero Journey, J
- ... restored and are of multiple magnitude than before his agonizing ordeals. His family and friends, who had shunned the wretched Job, begin celebrating his heartiness and show sympathy and comfort for all the evil the Lord had brought on Job. The Lord then blessed Job with an extensive, prosperous life. Seven sons, three daughters, fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand oxen, and a thousand donkeys were counted as Job’s blessings. Thomas Becket has an ...
- 832: Gods Grandeur 2
- ... spirit above the Earth, in space, looking over us. It also points out the crookedness of humanity, or the warped path humanity has taken. Despite all of our misgivings, Hopkins depicts the beauty of the Lord as ever present, no matter how bent our path becomes. In this final tercet Hopkins is providing an answer to David s Lamentation, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you ... far from the words of my groaning (Psalm 22:1). Hopkins is stating that God is never far he is always there watching over us. This, according to Hopkins, is the true beauty of the Lord, He is ever present in our lives. The quest for knowledge through an understanding of the Divine is a quintessential reality in all religions. Every religion strives to gain some kind of insight into life ...
- 833: Bennet's: The Executioner
- Bennet's: The Executioner "I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or ... arises suspense. Bennett uses an interesting way to show the executioner's motive to get revenge. The first is by the quote stated at the beginning, saying that "When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance, then comes the time for someone to declare himself the executioner." At the end of the story, Oliver (the executioner) says some brilliant words that prove to be a very ...
- 834: Hindu Scriptures
- ... types: Itihaasa-s - These are epics which were written to make known the human attributes of the Divine. It is comprised of two epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata, which are the stories of two incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Rama and Krishna, respectively. PuraaNa-s - Each story emphasizes morals and is usually a story about a hindu deity fighting for upholding these morals. There are eighteen puraaNa-s and eighteen sub-puranas. Agamas ... them. The oldest and most sacred Hindu scriptures, The Vedas, originated around 1500 B.C. Hindus believe that Vedas are timeless. The word Veda means "knowledge." It is believed that this knowledge came directly from Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are four Vedas. They are named Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva. The Vedas consist of prayers to the One Divine and the divinities of nature; for example, the ...
- 835: Milton Vs Pope
- ... is simply the cutting of a lock of hair, and not a monumental fall from God s graces. Pope goes on to pose the questions, Say what strange motive, Goddess! Could compel/a well-bred Lord to assault a gentle Belle? / O say what stanger cause, yet unexplored, /could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord? (Pope, ll. 7-10). This is an allusion to Adam s rejection of Eve in Paradise Lost when he laments, Out of my sight, thou serpent! and to Eve s crime against God (Milton, Bk ...
- 836: Evelina: Madame Duval
- ... knows we desire Madame Duval to be punished, but by doing so with violence, she asks us to question our own expectations of women in "the novel". Burney almost immediately introduces us to our hero Lord Orville, by doing this so early in the novel we as readers are compelled to dislike anyone else who courts our heroine. We know from experience, that any man (besides our hero) who attempts to ... The last scene, in which Sir Clement mistreats Evelina, our hero comes to the rescue. Sir Clement is again endeavoring to entreat Evelina to pity him by grabbing her forcibly and restraining her. Evelina spies Lord Orville walking nearby and calls to him while yelling at Sir Clement at the same time. Our hero confronts Sir Clement by asking him whether or not he would "wish to detain Miss Anville by ...
- 837: The False Monk
- ... to be a great treat and custom for them. Secondly, the Monk does not stay within the monastery walls as was the tradition (177-180). Instead of being in the abbey, doing service for the Lord or working in the fields, the Priest is out riding the countryside on his horse, hunting rabbits and chasing deer (189-190). Lastly, the Monk is also a lazy priest. He says himself he doesn ... world's more easy, luxurious way of doing things (174). Monks should have followed the old rule of St. Benedict. This involved such things as, not leaving the monastery walls, and doing everything for the Lord. These actions shown by the Monk display how hypocritical he is of the position he holds, and how he contradicts everything he is supposed to stand for. Thus by describing how the monk appears and ...
- 838: Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... the tragic possibilities of a conflict between love and opposition"(Belsey). Demetrius, like all the others, is mocking the play by the rude mechanicals: It is the wittiest parition that ever I heard discourse, my lord . . . . . . . . . . . . No remedy, my lord, when walls are so williful to hear without warning. (Demetrius, 5.1) IV. Demetrius' Altered Personality and Emotions (Under the Spell of the Flower) Sensitivity A. The love juice has done it's work, and ...
- 839: Othello Vs. Twelfth Night
- ... daughter: but here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother show'd to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord (Othello, I.iii 184-188) As the course of events shift, Othello and Desdemona end up in Cyprus together. Iago, ensign to Othello, in his lust for power, tricks Othello into believing that Desdemona has had an affair. Othello is overcome by jealousy, the green eyed monster. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on (Othello, III.iii 169-171) In his rage, Othello charges Iago with the killing of Cassio, his lieutenant who ...
- 840: Canterbury Tales - Medieval Church
- ... to take the strain of living a Christian life in the real world, the monks were like spiritual stormtroopers interceeding 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 ...
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