Harmony Blankenship Mrs. Malone English 1210 16, April 2012 Antigone Analysis The play Antigone is a Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles in 405 BC. The two main characters are Creon and Antigone. The main conflict of the drama is between Antigone and Creon. Creon is the tragic hero and antagonist in the conflict. Due to Creon’s tragic flaw and destructive pride, he suffered at the hands of the angry Gods.
During the Age of Enlightenment, a religious war was taking place called the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition was when Catholics persecuted heretics, Jews, Protestants, Muslims, etc. These persecutions ultimately lead to the execution or torture of most of the persecuted people. And these Inquisitors killed in the name of God and for God. These killings would cause contradictions between the church's action and its teachings from the Bible.
14 There can be many primary sources found on his Christian persecution. (big card) 17 As being a Christian was there only crime, they were punished by death, or imprisonment. Swords, daggers, crosses, poison, and famine, were made use of in various parts to dispatch the Christians and invention was exhausted to devise tortures against the Christian people. Diocletian also ordered the destruction of a city known as Phrygia that primarily consisted of
The Image of Satan in Paradise Lost Abstract: Paradise Lost is Minton’s masterpiece. It is a long epic in 12 books, written in blank verse. The story were taken from the Old Testament: the creation of the earth and Adam and Eve, the fallen angels in hell plotting against God, Satan’s temptation of Eve, and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden. Satan, is a controversial character in this epic poem, he and his followers are banished from heaven and driven into hell, but even here in hell, mist flames and poisonous fumes, Satan and his adherents are not discouraged. The poem ,as we are told at the outset, was “to justify the ways of God to man”.
He remained there until his death around 1123. In Guiberts book, A Monks Confession, there are multiple themes that appear throughout the middle ages. Three of them that stood out to me in the book were; simony, fear of the devil, and corruption of those with power. Simony, in the Middle Ages, was viewed as a very serious offense for those who chose to live the monastic life. It was first addressed as a problem during the Gregorian reform, when Pope Leo IX condemned the bishop of Sutri for simony and the bishop then died on the spot (Bennett pg.
The Scarlet Letter: The Dangers of Hypocrisy In Matthew 23:13 Jesus cries out, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.” Shortly after that, Jesus says, “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” Since hypocrisy can be found in each and every person in some form or another, scores of authors have used their stories to illustrate the dangers of hypocrisy. Nathaniel Hawthorne chose to display this moral in one of his most famous works. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne works through his characters to reveal the perilous dangers of hypocrisy. Hawthorne displays the hypocrisy in his characters through the first scaffold scene.
Paradise Lost begins, not with the expected potential heroes of the Genesis stories, God or man, but he begins instead with Satan, thereby placing focus on him and his actions. Milton, introducing Satan by blaming him for the fall of man, "Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?/Th' infernal Serpent..." (1.33-34), appears to set him up as the definitive adversary, not just of the epic, but of humanity. He briefly tells of Satan's pride that led him to try to overthrow God and how he was cast into Hell, but he also tells us, "...for now the thought/Both of lost happiness and lasting pain/Torments him..."(1.55-56), right away trying to make Satan someone to be pitied, more human and less evil. Milton describes Satan's physical character to be "in bulk as huge/As whom the fables name of monstrous size,/ Titanian..."(1.196-198), and then "Deeming some island," (1.205), meaning Satan's size is so vast a sailor would mistake him for an island on which he can moor his boat. Satan's size growing larger with each new comparison supports Satan as the hero.
Anderson Theory Critique Gerald Romano Liberty University Concise Summary of Theory The Bondage Breaker, by Neil T. Anderson (2000) is a comprehensive book based on the theory that Satan and demonic forces are at play in our world and in people’s individual lives causing such things as negative thoughts, irrational feelings, and habitual sins. Anderson gives extensive examples of individuals he has worked with that were in bondage to Satan and demonic forces throughout the book. He discusses how Satan can take control of a person’s mind and cause that person to become severely depressed and a slave to sin. Anderson states that there are four qualifications for living in the authority and power of Christ. First is belief.
The Catholic Church views sin in two ways. There are the mortal sins that endanger your soul and venial sins which are less serious breaches of God’s law. The Catholic Church believes that if you commit a mortal sin you lose the option of Heaven and are sent directly to Hell. In order to have a mortal sin an individual has to commit one of the seven deadly sins. The seven deadly sins are as lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Major Themes Hell on Earth The Duchess of Malfi is a play replete with darkness, both literal and figurative. There are good figures, and these characters are associated with light. On the other hand, the brothers, who exhibit unrelenting evil, are associated with motifs of darkness, fire, the devil, and sin. The idea that the brothers have unleashed hell on Earth is most apparent in the fourth act, which includes utter horrors like fake corpses, a severed hand, a plethora of madmen, and most centrally, the vicious murders of the Duchess and her children. The Duchess, a symbol of motherhood and light, is unfazed by these horrors because she believes her family already dead, but she does explain that “the earth” seems made “of flaming sulphur” (4.2.26).