Thomas Putnam became a person full of greed and he became very demanding. Thomas was a person who wanted everything his way. Now look you, sir, let you string out against the devil, and the village will bless you for it! Come down, speak to them-pray with them. They’re thirsting for your word, Mister!
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 Birthmark” is told in a strong, subjective voice that draws attention to the narrator and makes him a key player in the story. At nearly every moment, we know what the narrator is thinking and how he views the characters’ behavior. It is clear from the beginning that the narrator dislikes Aylmer and his quest to eliminate the birthmark and that he sympathizes with Georgiana. The narrator might be characterized as a chatty, intelligent friend sharing a particularly juicy piece of gossip. At several points in the story, he all but addresses us directly, imploring us, for example, to notice how bad Aylmer looks in comparison even to an animal like Aminadab.
In both Divine Things and Sinners of An Angry God was Edwards passionate and adoring of the almighty God in his writing. The malicious personality of Jonathan Edwards in Sinners of An Angry God was the complete contrary of his persona in Divine Things. In Sinners of An Angry God, I witnessed a burning passion about the fierce wrath of God. For example, Edwards said “His wrath towards you burns like fire”. Jonathan Edwards’s purpose for writing this sermon was to terrify the general public into coming to church and that would help hold his dominant position in the conjugation.
Edwards uses a stricter and more straight up approach at speaking to his audience. He uses the word “You” a lot to show that it affects each and every one of them individually. This sermon in detail explains what happens to you with your sins and God. For example, using figurative language he says, “Your Wickedness makes you as it were heavy as Lead, ...”. This sentence shows how sins affect you in life.
The speaker commands God to change him immediately through the means of brutality imploring God: “Batter my heart … (1) / your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.” (4). The speaker’s expressive, forceful, tone, depicts the desperation he suffers as he searches for God’s love in a sexual and violent manner. Similar to the demanding tone of Sonnet 14, “Death be not proud”, portrays the speaker as one who unafraid of using a mocking tone as he utters: “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so”. This attitude insinuates Death is not worthy of his reputation of morbid fear. The speaker continues to mock Death’s position as he implies that Death is inferior to: “poppy or charms [that] can makes us sleep as well” (11), he is nothing more than: “a slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men” (9).
This obviously creates strong conflicts at once, and we also see background conflicts beneath the surface of the outrage like that of Abigail and John Proctor. In this essay I will look at how these conflicts are used to introduce characters and key ideas, and how Arthur Miller interests his audience to prepare them for the events later on. Straight away we are introduced to Reverend Parris, in a fury about his ill daughter Betty. We see him at once as quite an angry and desperate man whilst he sits by Betty’s bed, shouting at Tituba, the slave, to get out of his sight. Although he is introduced as a loving father trying to care for his daughter, he does not want anyone bothering him and seems like an unfriendly person.
Additionally, the successive references establish a serious tone. Both the content and structure of this quote contribute to King’s argument by appealing to the religious background of his audience. Another instance of anaphora occurs further along his letter. King writes, “But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim…when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro” (15). The use of the word “when” enhances his argument because the repetition gives the already memorable, emotional statement a lasting impression on the audience.
There are, however, similarities. First of all, both men show a bias opinion of their surroundings. Dane does so in a subtle way, while Bacon flaunts his ideas, good or bad to everyone within shouting distance. We can see Dane’s biases in a quote from page sixty-two in Johnson: “God hath all along preserved and kept me all my days.” In this passage, it is evident that Dane’s opinion on everything will have a religious spin to it. We can also tell that every experience he goes through is glorified, that everything worked out for the better.
Now, more and more people are getting convinced that it was the influence of his education of humanism as well as some certain factors that made him become a man of indecision. So, I would like to show these points of view in detail as follows: 1. the influence of humanism upon Hamlet 1.1 At the beginning part of Hamlet, young Hamlet was studying humanism in Germany. As Shakespeare depicted, the world to Hamlet was “This goodly frame the earth, This most excellent canopy the air, The brave o’erhanging firmament, The majestical roof fretted with golden fire…”①Hence he strongly believed that the world was gracious and glorious, from which we can draw a conclusion that Hamlet would rather not trust in the existence of devils and depravities unless he saw everything himself. We can also cite words from Hamlet’s soliloquy: “The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil, And devil hath power, T’ assume a pleasing shape…”②And this turned to be the seeds of