The lines that follow will clarify the poem and the violent imagery, so as to help the reader understand Donne’s motivations. Batter my heart, addressed towards God, portrays the writers confused and conflicted state of mind. He appears guilty for his sins he has committed in his life but has come to realise that he has no chance of redemption without the help of God’s love, “imprison me…never shall be free”. He also strongly considers he has been wrongly taken by “your enemy”, Satan through his use of metaphors “imprison me”. Satan has captured him “take me to you” through temptation and sin “unto your enemy”.
Let us explore these beliefs. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye,(62; 1) the sin of self-love a mortal sin in Christianity. He fears self-love is so deeply rooted that he will never be rid of it; And for this sin there is no remedy, It is so grounded inward in my heart. (62; 3-4) Shakespeare seems angry that he is experiencing self-love. In Sonnet 62 Shakespeare could be warning his friend to beware of self-admiration as it is mortal sin and not easy to discard.
What is Job’s Problem and what is God’s Response? The Book of Job is the work of a gifted poet, who examines the problem of a just God allowing suffering to the innocent. The book discussed the life of an honest, hard-working individual named Job, whose integrity is intensely tested by God through Satan. This book challenges the millennia-old belief that “goodness is rewarded with material prosperity while wickedness is punished with temporal suffering” (p.510). Although Job is described by Satan as “You will find no one like him on earth, a man of blameless and upright life, who fears God and sets his face against wrongdoing.” (p.511), he is still reluctant to believe that Job will remain sinless “in the face of disaster”, and suggests they eradicate his material possessions, including his children, to test his faith.
Ladies and gentlemen, today I am going to speak to you to unveil the corruption and unholiness of your beloved Roman Catholic Church but also why this should make you follow the ways of the renowned martyr John Wyclif and his lollard teachings. As a religion we derive from the mid to late 1300's (1382) when John Wyclif asserted his ideas on the Catholic Church to the very foundations, his initial argument was that the Bible was the only sure basis of belief and that it should be translated into the vernacular, he denied that the ridiculous traditions of the church were as important as scripture. He therefore rejected transubstantiation, advocacy of clerical marriage and denunciations of the wealth and power of the clergy. To us Lollards those arguments are correct, justified and fair. It is true that we should doubt this miraculous transubstantiation as each time this miraculous event happens it is done by a corrupt and unholy priest behind a screen.
The characters in this poem is of great worth to analyse. Key words: John Milton, Satan, revolution, religion, character Introduction:Satan in the Bible is an image of devil.But in Paradise Lost, he has been more complex and has brought about different interpretations from different perspectives. This article makes a review on Satan’s heroic quality and demonic quality, the duality of him. John Milton(1608-1674)is one of the greatest poets at the end of English Renaissance, whose works have accupied a high position in the history of English literature, culture and ideology.Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions. Milton is a Puritan.
This is a reflection of the state of the form empire. The She-Wolf also represents Rome’s pagan past when “false and lying gods” (Alighieri 251) held sway. She always “grows hungrier” (Alighieri 251) for she knows not the love of the Lord. Virgil is a key figure in The Divine Comedy and an icon of ancient Rome. Virgil “became the model for Western poets” (Matthew & Platt 150), so it is no surprise he would be Dante’s guide.
Historically, epic heroes in epic poetry shared some similar characteristics which will be further discussed, thus it seems like Milton felt the obligation to make Satan the epic hero in Paradise Lost because the characteristics he had in the poem were synonymous to those of previous epic heroes such as Odysseus which will also be further explained throughout the paper. Epic heroes have similar characteristics. They are powerful, brave, and persuasive; they accomplish their goals no matter what odds are against them, and most of all, they are leaders. Satan possesses of the qualities of an epic hero in Paradise Lost. First of all, at the beginning of Paradise Lost, Satan has lost the war he waged against God and the angels in heaven and was “chained on the burning lake” (210).
Fundamentally, the contrapasso resolves punishment uniquely to each sinner. Accordingly, God designs the punishment and tailors it in a manner that would be appropriate for each sin committed. This is contrary to the universal misapprehension; that all sinners burn similarly, regardless of the sin committed. There is an ever-growing debate regarding how contrapasso operates, its function, as well as the reasons why Dante uses it in his works. While many assert that there is a principle or blueprint of contrapasso, some also argue that any attempts to place a solid understanding or classification of the model severely restrict its proposition and application.
Friar Laurence, Mercutio and Juliet are all embroiled in his love. Moreover, the love within Juliet was an overpowering force that caused her to make risky decisions and blinded her from her other emotions. Romeo’s and Juliet’s love is a catalyst for the impulsive decision characters make resulting in tragic consequences. Undoubtedly Romeo’s love for Juliet initiates a series of events that implicates Friar Laurence in his climacteric scheme of good intentions, not to mention his best friend Mercutio and Juliet his love. In the first place Friar Laurence was a strong element in theses events because he was one of Romeo’s most important friends and helped him marry Juliet.
The narrator comes off as disturbed and as if he feels hopeless. Within the first few lines, he quotes Dante's “Inferno”, this is a bit of foreshadowing for the reader. Depicting a hell-like atmosphere for the rest of the poem. This seems to request that the reader understand that what they are fixing to read was not intended to be shown to the living world, just as Dante is exposed to the abhorrences of the Inferno that also were not intended for world of the living. This analogy is both intriguing and frightening, and breathes an eeriness into the narrator and the poem before it has even begun.