Many church leaders began to live more like kings instead of priests. The Church started raising fees of baptism and marriages. Later on, the Church started the sale of Indulgences which are letters of forgiveness of someone’s sin. However, this action started anger and disagreement all around Europe. This plunged Martin Luther into action and wrote 95 arguments
He believed the selling indulgences was wrong, and even the pope, Pope Leo X, did not have the authority to abolish sins through payments. Luther recognized that at this time, the Church was more focused on accumulating money than saving its people and spreading the word of Christ. Luther believed that only God has the ability to take away the sins of humanity. Martin Luther published his opinions in a document titled Ninety-Five Theses. The monk's writing spread quickly around Europe, and he soon posed a serious threat to the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther and John Calvin were in the Reformation they were determined to reform the Catholic Church. The Pope led the Catholic Church and also decided weather, a person gets into heaven. Problems happen in the Catholic Church but there were important people that reform the church. In the 14th and 15th century problems began to happen in the Catholic Church. The Catholics were frustrated with the church because the church wasn’t about people’s lives; it was about
This hypocrisy, in Voltaire’s view, needed to be stumped out so as to transform life in Europe. The church, as depicted in Voltaire’s work, is one of the most hypocritical places. Although the priests and other religious leaders preach the idea of a perfect world, created by a perfect God, they fail to practice this perfection. For example, as Candide and Cunegonde are talking to an old woman, the latter reveals that she is the daughter of Pope Urban X and of the Princess of Palestrina (Voltaire 24). The satire in this is that catholic priests are meant to be celibate, therefore, raising questions as to how a pope would sire a daughter.
People kept praying, and they insisted that death could be avoided if they believed in Christianism. However, the ruling class, which consisted of the government and the church, felt quite helpless in the face of the plague as well. Not only the priests fled from their post, but also the government was paralyzed, and it led to the problems such as the chaotic administration system. In addition, the plague did not disappear at all while more and more people were killed, which made people lose their confidence in the ruling class, and the limitation of their thoughts was broken too. It assisted in laying the foundation of religious reform, thereby initiated the coming of the Renaissance.
Antigone believes so strongly that she is morally justified and bound by family duty to bury Polynices that she boldly breaks the law knowing she will face the ultimate consequence. “I dared, it was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, King was strong, but all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were and shall be, operative forever, beyond man utterly (Sophocles).” Antigone defied the laws of man because she believed in the higher law of Gods that she had the right to bury her brother.
Societal views of women were very strict during the Middle Ages. Women were to be seen, not heard and to serve the man of the household as a daughter or wife. The Wife of Bath explains “But wel I woot, expres, withouten lie, God bad us for to wexe and multiplye” (ln 27) using this citation to support her promiscuous ways yet she does not have or want children of her own. The Wife of
Robin Flores Professor Anderson English 103 25 October 2012 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One is to say, woman are portrayed inferior to men because they were never given a position of power, men see themselves superior than women, and are consider as sexual objects. The movie, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” shows the audience that women should stay in a patriarchy system. The female character Miss Ratchet, abused her power as a leader by being over dramatic on her job. The main character, McMurphy never agreed with Miss Ratchet on anything because he feels superior. Two other females that had nicknames are known as a sexual need in the film because McMurphy invited them over to seduce the guard and Billy.
In each novel, main characters face alienation from society by different causes. The views of the people were different in each novel because in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie was not entirely treated with respect since she was a female and during those times males were the ones who dominated. She loathed for a relationship that involved the couple being equal among each other, but the views of that time period prevented her from fully accomplishing her dream. Ultima on the other hand was separated because the majority of the people in the town were catholic and they didn’t entirely accept the healing and curing of people with herbs since they believed in the power of God’s healing. Many people were also accusing Ultima of being a witch since she didn’t use the power of the lord to cure people and instead used “magic” to do her bidding In Bless Me, Ultima, Ultima was pushed away from the people in the town because many believed she was a witch.
In the middle ages, religion played a big part in impacting the fight against disease. Many people believed that God caused many illnesses, for instance, ‘The Black Death’. They believed that God plagued them with these diseases as a way of punishing them for their wrong doings. They also believed that through prayer, God would forgive them and restore their health. Although this helped increase people’s faith, it meant that doctors did not attempt to find out what was causing these plagues scientifically; resulting in no improvements made in medicine.