The Screwtape Letters is a book that uses Christian morals and values and takes the opposite side of them to try and condemn a young man to an afterlife in Hell. In the second chapter of the book the “patient” becomes saved and turns to God. He is not really sure what being saved is yet though. One thing that Screwtape tells Wormwood to use against the patient is the church. He would look at all the funny looking people in church and concentrate on them instead of what he was supposed to hear.
Langston loses his faith because of how Auntie Reed tells him that “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside” (197). Langston takes her word, expecting to see a light and to feel something stirring in side of him. When he doesn’t see or feel anything after he’s saved, he gives up on believing in Jesus because he had believed in his aunt’s words. As a young boy, Langston wanted to see Jesus, who wanted to earn salvation, but when he didn’t see Jesus, when supposedly everyone else saw, he’s finds himself in a position of disappointing himself and everyone in the congregation. So he finally “saves” himself by pretending to see Jesus.
The story he reads from the Bible is about whether or not Job will remain faithful through the tough times he is living in, and this parallels Montag’s decision of whether or not to endure despite the difficulty of facing society’s hatred of books. Another important allusion to the Bible is when Faber is directly speaking about Jesus’ gradual distancing from society because everyone has pushed Him away. He discusses how “Christ is one of the ‘family’ now” (77) and wonders if even God recognizes His own son in the ruined society they live in. After Montag’s visit to Faber’s
Jonathon Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Starting in the mid-18th century, the people of Enfield, Connecticut began to lose their beliefs in Christianity. One man named, Jonathan Edwards, took it upon himself to preach to his congregation of sin and hell. In the hope of reviving their many other beliefs in Christianity, scholars refer to this time or even in early American history as “The Great Awakening”. One of Edwards’ sermons was called, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. The sermon explains in detail of the wrath God has and what Hell has in store for the non-believers.
Evidence of a religious theme consisting mainly of Christ-like associations is seen early on in the book. Through the Chief’s description of the ward, he observed the chronic Ellis, “…nailed against the wall…arms out, palms cupped.” His fate illustrates the effect the combine has on the patients of the ward, and foreshadows the fate of anyone who comes to cross it. McMurphy comes into the scene of the ward as an outsider; not fitting in with the rest of the patients. He has an air of confidence and leadership, compared to the weak and quiet residents of the ward.
The author was especially displeased with the abuse of power and overall hypocrisy of the church. He uses historical events, such as the Seven Years War and the Lisbon earthquake as a base for the events that happen in the story. Looking deeper, however, the reader discovers a classic satire aimed at the hypocrisy of the time. Candide's philosophy is best stated when he says, “Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches.
The Hypocrisy behind the Corrupted Religion In James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Gabriel Grimes is characterized as a hypocrite, which shows the theme of how religion is corrupted by man. Baldwin introduces Gabriel as a serious and religious father; however he abuses the idea of religion. When Gabriel was left alone with his dying mother, he saw religion as a salvation. As a young adult he lost himself and began to have numerous love affairs. Consequently, Gabriel began to use religion as his protection to cover up all of his sinful doings.
The reader is plunged into a dim and melancholic atmosphere. Starting in the midst of things promotes a curiosity within the reader and seeks to contrast mood. The novel soon returns to the start of its chronological order and there reader is left to ponder how a character such as Michael Mompellion, who is seemingly likeable, can display such bitterness and contempt towards God despite his glorious reputation towards religion. It can be seen how the catastrophic nature of the quarantine that Eyam is placed in is testing of the community. We see a variety of responses but it is the inability of the majority to understand the roots of the plague that prevents them from undergoing personal transformation.
Robert the blind man asks the narrator to describe what the cathedral looks like but the narrator couldn’t ,so he suggest that they draw one together. When Robert starts drawing he places his hand over the narrator’s, triggering the epiphany as the narrator is not accustomed to human closeness or any type of intimacy. Robert encourages him to draw the picture and as he is drawing the narrator says, “First I drew a box that looked like a house. It could have been the house I lived in,” (pg.518) It illustrated how he was very closed-mined and he lived is life “in a box”. Robert tells him to put people in the cathedral, representing the narrator’s need to socialize and expose himself to more people.
However, it seems to me that this view does not take into account what F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to tell us about human beings, that we may have many faults but that most of us are just trying to do the right thing. The Great Gatsby is a sordid tale of deception. Nick is left in the dark by Daisy when they choose to leave at the end of the novel. Daisy and Tom lied to everyone when