In “Fly Away Peter” Malouf constructs characters to show how war affects people. He juxtaposes the violence of war against the calm sanctuary like, home of Jim. Malouf creates powerful scenes which convey how soldiers dealt with the tragedy of the slaughter of fallen comrades and which reveal the fear within each
One of Edwards more effective strategies was to paint a picture through words of the horrific nature and eternal suffering for souls that went “unsaved”. He really reached his audience effectively by using graphic descriptions to describe the torture that awaited sinners in hell. Even though the concept of hell seems so far fetched and unreal, Edwards delivery of his sermon scares his listeners into believing what he is saying, thus prompting them to follow his step by step plan for them to be saved. Later into his sermon, Edwards paints a beautiful picture of god dangling sinners above the fiery volcano known as hell. But just when you think there’s no way out of this ill-fated encounter with fire, Edwards shows his congregation the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and explains that through gods mercy and forgiveness one could be saved.
The Church taught that God was not merciful. When time passed he started believing and trusting in God more until he started loving him. When he knew about the things that the Catholic Church was doing, asking the people what to do in order to get to salvation, he started an alliance with other protestant reformers and protested against Catholic Church. People were paying the Church for indulgences papers saying they or their families were forgiven for their sins. Catholics believe that only good works from people was the only way to get to salvation, but Luther was trying to make people know that you do not need to pay to be saved you just got to follow God’s rules, be good, and follow Jesus´ footsteps.
Furthermore, after every kill the brothers would follow up with a prayer. The family prayer the MacManus brothers recite when they justify the wrong resembles many aspects from the Catholic Religion. It displays the respect for passing of the dead to the holy world, no matter what one did in the world to wrong others. With each prayer ending in: “In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritūs Sancti,” or in English, “In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” This is used as a blessing in Catholic Churches for communion, or other religious benefits and services. So the men utilize that blessing as a message from God to deliver to the evildoers when they complete his command.
Tetzel also implores his readers to become a part of these indulgences to assure their ascent into heaven. According to the Catholic church, and Tetzel who so strongly believed in these rituals, wished to open the eyes of the mind. Tetzel explains to his readers the constant struggle of life man endures while living on earth. Tetzel describes letters obtained from the vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ, that will liberate man's soul from the hands of the enemy. Tetzel continues to enlighten his readers to the fact, there is no way to count the many sins a human being can commit on a daily basis.
The desire for superiority and domination has plagued the twentieth century by power struggles between nations in the form of wars and large numbers of casualties. Over the centuries, poetry has endeavoured to communicate human emotions and ideas. Some present a glorified war in order to portray their love and patriotic attitude to their audience. Such a view is presented in “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke. Quite alternatively, some poems demonstrate a more realistic representation of war such as Kenneth Slessor’s poem “Beach Burial” and the first excerpt from the film production ‘Saving Private Ryan’ which encapsulate the futility of war and the intolerable atrocities on innocent lives.
The Zeitgeist of the Middle Ages can be easily seen through this corruption of the Catholic Church, a topic brought to focus in Geoffrey Chaucer’s novel The Canterbury Tales. Here, in his novel, Chaucer’s characters often convey personalities that are appalling; some of them have faults that could fill an entire cup more than full. To make matters even more scandalous, a good number of these characters are affiliated with the Catholic Church. Furthermore, their corruption and that of the Catholic Church at large can be analyzed through their deviation from the vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity, which are essential to being a devout Catholic. First of all, Catholic’s believe that in order to be religious, one must surrender worldly goods and be poor in reality as well in spirit.
This unspecified and detached account of this action and the death in general, shows the way in which the members of the platoon deal with the complexity of the war experience. So much so that O’Brien is able to turn the story of Curt Lemon to a love story. Many go into a war story expecting to hear about triumph, pride, courage, and sacrifice. However, O’Brien claims that a true war story will shatter all previous expectations of a war story and instead be about evil and more obscene things. O’Brien says, “A true war
He was shocked by the unbiblical behavior of church officials and the sale of indulgences. In Catholic theology, an indulgence is the remission of the physical and temporal punishment for sins that is endured in Purgatory after death, even though the legal guilt has been pardoned by absolution. The Pope, according to his discretion from the "treasury of merits from the saints," sold religious merits in exchange for refurbishing the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome. Those who purchased these indulgence documents were promised a reduced punishment for their sins, for the sins of departed loved ones, and in some cases, total forgiveness from all sin. The slogan attributed to the Dominican friar Johann Tetzel epitomized the sale of indulgences: "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."
k. “Dost thou know who made thee” l. Why does the lamb exist? m. “Little Lamb I’ll tell thee” n. Introduction of Jesus Christ and God o. Made in God’s image p. The lamb also symbolizes Man, and Man’s desire to know his origins and why he exists iv. Setting q. Country life r. “by the stream and o’er the mead” s. Literary setting for us as readers v. Conclusion “The Lamb” is a Christian poem written by William Blake that utilizes a lamb to symbolize and explain how God created everything in the universe.