Duties of a wife in Christianity and Islam LaToya Thomas Miguel Rodriguez REL/134 12/6/2011 Duties of a wife in Christianity and Islam Christian Wives The wives role in Christianity begins with the understanding that it is not the relationship of master and slave nor as maid or servant, but a mere recognition of the husband’s leadership, wisdom, and tenderness. A Christian wives role consists of many different courses. One of the first roles to be filled is a command to love their husbands. This means that they are partners with their husbands to work together toward a common goal. Another role is that a wife is to be obedient to their own husbands.
But although her physical strength does not continue, she shows that her Spiritual strength is everlasting as “the Lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along, that I might see more of his Power.” (45) Rowlandson and her child pull through as “the Lord upheld me with his gracious and merciful Spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.” (46) Although her trials continue, Mary Rowlandson cries out to God and depends on Him. In her third and final remove, Rowlandson experiences her most difficult trial. With the death of her child, she continues to rely on God. She “thought since of the wonderfull goodness of God” (46) for preserving her life when she otherwise may be inclined to take it. As she is forced to part with her daughter, her last familiarity in her terrible journey, her faith in our Lord remains undiminished.
This is clearly a battle between the two most significant supernatural beings in the Christian Faith. For each of the climaxes where the vampires Lucy or Dracula are killed, the crucifix plays a major role. The evil forces are scared of the crucifix; they cover at the very sight of it, for it represents God and all that is good and pure. The Devil hates what it represents so it tries to remove all signs of it. Even After Lucy died, Van Helsing placed "a small golden crucifix over her mouth" in attempts to save her soul.
Gender Roles plays a huge part of the novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, by showing the reader how women are treated unfairly and what this treatment can cause to the women. In this novel, Alice Walker portrays how society sees men as the dominant gender and how women are merely sex slaves and servants. The main reason for the female circumcision is to satisfy the men in the tribe needs. If it were up to most women, they would not go through this ritual, but unfortunately, they need to, according to the Olinkan tribe. The women get this done to their body so they are “cleansed”, so a man is able to marry them.
THE UNEXPECTED The Wife of Bath assaults the restraints of the society on women. She builds up her own belief system and attacks the other beliefs by criticising the church and the priest’s view about the virginty. She stands up for the idea that how can virgins occur, when there is no multiply and increase. She protects this idea, also, by saying ‘God commanded us to increase and multiply’. Virginity is seen as a kind of perfection and it is not ordered but recommended.Virgins liken to white bread made of the purest wheat, whereas the wives be more like coarser bread made of barley, by her.
Hamlet ICTW In conveying the contempt the Ghost and Hamlet embrace towards the Queen and Claudius, Shakespeare, in his tragedy Hamlet, integrates Claudius’s need for power in order to irradiate the notion of Claudius’s selfishness and human betrayal. In the passage, the damning diction employed by the Ghost reveals biblical undertones and apprises the reader of the conniving ways of Claudius and the Queen. The ghost describes Claudius through the metaphor of a serpent- evoking a biblical reference Adam and Eve. The Ghost reveals that Claudius murdered him by saying: “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.” By employing the wording “serpent,” it highlights Claudius’ sneaky ways: slithering about to take over the throne. Claudius purposefully set out to murder his own flesh and blood, which proves his selfishness, similar to the biblical reference of the serpent.
Jeanette Winterson, an English author, was brought up in an incredibly religious setting and grew up surrounded by a mother who intended nothing but for Winterson to become a missionary. Winterson reacted to the environment she was raised in, in the opposite manner than what her parents had hoped for. Through this reaction Jeanette Winterson made it possible to look at and explore the religious dogmatism that was prevalent in her life, and in this exploration her literature was born. In Winterson’s book The Passion her Christian background is especially visible in the significance attributed to churches. Through the imagery of churches Winterson is able to convey her intensive religious upbringing, her conflicting religious views, and her creative literary depth.
Blow!’ Although the play is set in a pagan setting, Lear prays to the gods to expose criminals and later throughout the play, for the wellbeing of Cordelia and it is through these cries of help that we can notice that no matter how much the king prayed for righteous justice to be served that his prayers remained unanswered. Proof of this is how he calls his daughters ‘pernicious’ in Act III Scene i and in Act III scene iii; also called ‘The Mock Trial Scene’, where Lear states: ‘I here take my oath before this honourable assembly, she [meaning Goneril] kicked the poor King her father.’ It is ironic how Lear thought that he was all-powerful in the first Act whereas now he is making an oath in the name of the gods that what he is stating is true and this shows the resignation he has towards the previous life he led. Meanwhile the gods’ injustice is also present in Gloucester’s subplot. Gloucester has always been a great believer of the gods and in the first act, when he reads Edmund’s forged letter he demonstrates this ‘these late eclipses in the sun
A woman’s holy marriage represented her family’s honor, and so her “purity” was a highly valued commodity. This is a statement of value that spread as a societal way to further oppress women. It was and to some degree still is believed by men and women. They are the prisoners, and they saw “…only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave…” Because men were in power
You gottuh. Oh, Jesus, have mussy!” Certain objects and situations in the story suggest the influence of religion. The white clothes Delia washes in the story are symbolic of her character. White represents her virtue and saintly tendencies as she humbly tolerates Sykes' torment. The religious association of snakes and evil is present in two instances in this story.