Before Dimmesdale kills himself, he admits his sin to the whole town. Also, Dimmesdale receives treatment from Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, who knows their secret, and is trying to get revenge on them both. Chillingworth ends up realizing that he is going insane with trying to get revenge and believes that he has sinned more than both of them. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses satire to poke fun of the Puritan attitude toward sinning and the punishments of sinning. The reader learns from the text that the Puritan religion looked down on the idea of sin and punishes sinners harshly.
With heavy satire, dramatic and situational, Lewis shows how the devils views Christian society and how he tries to manipulate Christians into losing their faith through subtle ways. In this satire C.S. Lewis exposes man’s great and tiny faults and how the devil tries to take advantage of each of them to make his walk with God miserable until the Christian falls. The worldview in the Screwtape letters is a Christian worldview. Lewis shows that Christianity is ultimately logical and that one of the main ways the devil tries to attack Christians is to avoid logic.
Included in the book are a series of illustrations likening the Jews to the devil. The author highlights the myths the Christians believed pertaining to the Jews’ dealings with the devil, Jewish sorcery and Jewish heretics. During the Holocaust, a time of renewed hatred for the Jews, Trachtenberg writes about a topic that is extremely important in showing the way
Antonio has treated Shylock very rudely and disrespectfully, even calling him a “dog” because of his religion, and now he is coming to him for money. Shylock uses this bond as an opportunity not only to get revenge against Antonio for all of his wrongdoing, but also to achieve more respect in the Venetian community. In addition, in Act 3, Scene 1, during Shylock’s speech to Solanio and Salarino, he declares, “If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
Javier Acosta Dr. Rutledge English 2521 Is King Claudius an immoral monster whoʼs every intention is to do evil? To answer this, the definition of someone bound on evil and someone who is a moral weakling would have to be very clearly defined as different audiences have different conceptions of each. Readers of Shakespeare have various examples on which to judge immoral monsters, such as Aaron the moor from Titus Adronicus who claims “If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul” (V.iii.189-190) When Claudius is placed next to someone like him, we have to judge with different scales. Not to say that the kings crimes are not evil, for they surely are, but to say his attitude after the crimes have been committed are that of a man who wants to repent but can not seem to bring himself to do so. A man whoʼs twisted conscious haunts him by placing him in a state of paranoia, confusion, and weakness.
Loneliness puts The Monster in a mentally unstable position. He believes that he is a monster for the reason being he was created by one. In comparison, Othello’s betrayal is demonstrated throughout the play, but especially through Iago when he confesses to the audience his plan to manipulate and destroy Othello’s love life with Desdemona. Although Othello trusts Iago with anything, Iago hates the “Moor” and is willing to do anything to destroy him. Iago feels that the best way to do so is by manipulating Othello telling him that his wife is cheating on him with Cassio, who Iago coincidently hates as well.
It is this threat that led to the persecution of Jesus. Moreover, this antagonism also stems from the Sabbath healings, which involve Jesus breaking the Jewish Law, as they are examples of the usurping and humiliating the Jewish leaders’ authority by showing divine love e.g. the healing of the lame man in chapter 5. Thus, we can see that the Jewish rejection and persecution of Jesus shows that they have never heard nor seen God, or else
“It is pride, not covetousness, which is the Pardoner’s greatest sin.” How far do you agree? Pride has been traditionally considered the chief of sins due to it incorporating all aspects of the others as it involves false beliefs in a person’s own importance, is the sin through which Lucifer fell and became Satan and is the was the downfall of Adam and Eve due to them believing they could be gods themselves. In The Pardoner’s Tale the Pardoner is presented as ‘a ful vicious man’ implying that he has no morals and is engulfed by the sins that he preaches. Using the word ‘vicious’ is intriguing because of the sibilance and the snake-like onomatopoeic nature to the word. It represents him as almost inhuman as he has more serpent-like qualities.
The Elizabethan and dramatist view of Machiavelli, at least as a political thinker, is that of a man inspired by the Devil to lead good men to their doom (Berlin, 1979). The most extreme interpretations castigate him as a “teacher of evil,” in the famous words of Leo Strauss (1957: 9-10, cited in Nederman, 2009), on the grounds that he counsels leaders to avoid the common values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fear, and deception (Nederman, 2009). Such interpretations fail to understand the underlying motivations and assertions behind The Prince. In a state of disorder and corruption, it is the duty of the government to implement order to combat this instability. Machiavelli had legitimate reason
Well known is Voltaire's hostility toward the Jews. His play LE FANATISME, OU MAHOMET LE PROPHÈTE (1741), which portrayed the founder of Islam as an intriguer and greedy for power, was denounced by Catholic clergymen. They had no doubts that the true target was Christian fanaticism. However, Pope Benedict XIV, whom Voltaire dedicated the work, replied by saying that he read it with great