Historically, the topic of religion stirs emotion and partisanship. Geoffrey Chaucer and Jonathan Swift both satirize the institution of religion by attacking its clergymen and religious followers. Swift vilely attacks Catholics while Chaucer reveals flaws of all religious views. However, Swift and Chaucer both indicate the corruption and incorrectness of the Catholic religion believed during their various time periods. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer illuminates the corruption and hypocrisy in Catholic clergymen through several of the religious pilgrims like the Friar, and the Summoner.
Edwards’s language choice affects the audience's emotional response, and emotional appeal, to enhance the argument; “You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.” He uses as many terms and diction’s as possible to frighten the sinners. His selling idea is to have as many sinners as possible to repent and to his observations the most effective and ethical (ethos) way, was through fear and intimidation. He wrote the sermon with a passion and anger that partly reflected what he thought of God’s anger. He ask the audience to repent in an ethical manner, trying to reason with the sinners,
These poems are all written by the poet Wilfred Owen. I’m comparing the speeches and poems to give the different views on what people thought about war. In Henry V speech Saint Crispin’s day Henry V speaks a lot of glory, honour and brotherhood. All these ideas can inspire even the most despairing and oppressed men. This speech is very powerful and when someone is feeling unmotivated and depressed it has the ability to stir you to focus.
He uses the conflict between Brady and Drummond, the lawyers who represent both sides respectively, to convey the struggle for freedom and the need to respect differing opinions. As a defence lawyer shows, all opinions have value, "While we may not agree with your ideas, we respect your right to voice them". It can be seen how the director, Stanley Kramer, is on the side of evolutionism. This is evident as Kramer portrays the highly religious people from Hillsboro as unpleasant and narrow minded. Through the characterisation of the Reverend, his narrow mindedness can be seen when he says “lord, we ask the same curse for those who ask grace for this sinner”.
Benjamin Franklin is noted for, among other things, his autobiographical works which tend to throw a positive light on his musings and pseudo-enlightenment of the human condition. However, there are many people who have disagreed with his arguments, such as his list of virtues. One such man, D. H. Lawrence, decided to take a stand and put his opinions about Ben Franklin into writing. This is now a widely recognized satirical essay. Through satirical devices and tropes, D. H. Lawrence reveals the absurd and fatal flaws that Ben Franklin proposed in his writings.
Johnathan Edwards Sinners in the hand of an Angry God is an inspiring sermon. He passionately narrates the fall of man and reinforces it with literary examples that the target audience at the time can easily relate to. His message is clear and concise and drives the point home. In this sermon, Edwards uses the narrative aim by describing the “anger” that God possesses toward “sinners”; sinners being the target audience he was preaching to. Before examining the examples he uses, one must first understand to who the sermon was directed.
Paul Hogan Ben Fuqua English 1102 February 8, 2013 Insane Solutions Jonathan Swift and Philip Larkin are both experienced poets who wrote the works “This Be The Verse” and “A Modest Proposal”. These two works both comment on issues about humans. Swift was criticizing a certain group of people while Larkin was targeting every person on earth. Swift was trying to change the political climate of his day and make influential benefits for his homeland. Larkin was trying to solve an issue that plagued every living person on the earth.
Ysatis Hernandez 10/21/11 2.1 Cruel Compassions Within Preconceptions and Exploitations In Gabriel Garcia-Marquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal, both authors illustrate the theme of exploitation through their use of symbolism, and the motif of cruelty with compassion. Garcia-Marquez uses satire in order to criticize the Catholic Church along with human nature, while Ellison uses irony to depict the narrator’s naivety of admiring the very men who condemn him. Both authors clearly demonstrate how atypical people such as the Old Man in A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, and the narrator in Battle Royal are treated differently due to society’s cruel preconceptions of both main characters. As a result, they are both exploited and publicly dehumanized. In A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Marquez employs the symbol of wings in order to further highlight society’s preconceptions of the Old Man and
Unlike Virgil, Dante makes explicit moral judgment on each of the individuals he meets, and the damned encountered range from historical figures, to contemporary popes and poets, to the greatest sinner of them all: Judas Iscariot. The quality of punishment given out to the sinners is thus increased as Dante's descend, and Dante's compassion for the dead lessens as he moves downward to the bottom of hell. On the contrary, much of Dante's Hell is original, but that which he did extract from the Aeneid he carefully adapted to his tenacities. In pursuing his Christian vision of the afterlife, Dante thereby created an otherworld structurally distinct from, yet stylistically suggestive of, Vergil's Underworld.
Because the poem places a large emphasis on Satan and the fall of man, it could give a sense of rebellion to an uneducated reader, which it certainly did with the monster. However, if Paradise Lost was replaced with the Bible, this influence would be reversed with many positive influences, including “Thou shalt not kill,” and “Love thy neighbor as yourself.” Plutarch’s Lives is a collections of historic retellings of the lives of famous Greek and Roman figures. While there are many positive stories, there are also many negative influences. Many tales of betrayal create negative precedents that the monster followed. However, if a different selection of Lives were chosen, then the monster could have learned of valor and honor.