...and expand their knowledge. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri tells his voyage through Hell in a poem in order to display his journey to God in a time when he had lost his way. The Inferno, symbolizes Dante's recognition of sin and the need to deny the temptations of man in order to obtain paradise with God. The Hero's Journey is depicted throughout the poem. The Call: The Call is the beginning of the Hero's Journey. It is when the protagonist or hero of the book is brought out of their domain and into the unknown. They are called to pass the horizon and enter into a mystery that will lead them to their destiny. The poem of "Dante's Inferno" opens up with Dante being lost in his pathway to God. On the morning light of Good Friday he realizes the error of his ways and turns to go up the Mount of Joy in order to leave the Dark Wood of worldliness and enter into Paradise. After being denied entry into the pathway towards god by three beasts, Dante's...
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...Job The book of Job is a non-fiction biography of a righteous man described in the opening verse as “perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and eschewed evil”. The main character is a healthy and prosperous man whom the devil is allowed to bring suffering and hardship to in order to test his righteousness. After standing firm in his faith during this difficult hardship including loss of his family, health, wealth, and reputation, the Bible tells us that everything was returned to him in double portion. Other characters include his family and his three closest friends; Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Job was such a God fearing man, he rose every morning and offered a sacrifice to God for each of his ten children. “And it was so, when the days of their feast were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts”(Job 1:5/KJV). So this was his morning ritual just in case he needed to make restitution to the Lord by sacrifice for other members of his household. The book of Job has a style that flows from narrative to dialogue, speeches, poetry, more monologue and finally back to narrative (Hindson and Towns, 2013). The author is unknown as well as the date it was written. However, The ESV of the Bible assigns the unknown author was probably an Israelite writing sometime between 1500 and 500...
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...lie of omission? Everyone has heard of Martin Luther King Jr., but few have heard of the man who was a mentor of Dr. King and planned the entire March on Washington. It is my pleasure to introduce you to the man who has been described as a “lost prophet” of the civil rights movement. On Sunday, November 15, at 2:00pm, my mom and I went to see the last showing of a wonderful play called, “Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin.” The play was focused around the man who planned the Civil Rights March on Washington and who was a civil rights leader. His name was Bayard Rustin and the reason that he has almost...
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...Victor is fixated on generating life and playing the role of God, the creator of living things. The problem lies with the consequences of creative power and how it will affect society. Victor is traumatized by the loss of his mother and is driven by his sorrow to bring his lost loved ones to life. In the film Victor seizes the creative power of God and brings Elisabeth back from the dead, a controversial action in effort to ease his sorrow. He unleashes yet again another unpredictable creation onto society. Branagh illustrates that by having this power it changes the natural balance of nature, which can be harmful and irreversible. His belief of holding god-like power may not be in the best interest of humanity since it’s driven by Victor’s selfish desires and it neglects the effect that his creations impose on...
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...The “Perfect Man,” or al-Insan al-Kalil, was first coined by Ibn Arabi, a Sufi mystic and philosopher. It was said that the “Perfect Man” embodied all that was man, an archetype per se. He had within him all the divine properties of God, but had since lost this state of perfection, leading to separation from God. In Sufism, it is believed that all people still have the ability regain that state of perfection. In this sense, the “Perfect Man” is said to be someone who has realized his true oneness with God; one who has reached this perfect state is called awliya. The foremost example of the Perfect Man is the Prophet Muhammad, who all Muslims aspire to imitate. It’s important in Sufism that a being like the Perfect Man exists because it makes it easier to picture a relationship with God, as the bridge formed by the Perfect Man makes Him close and accessible. In this way, Sufis can see themselves as a reflection of the Divine, though different due to the existence of human nature. To attain a state of perfection, one must always realize this difference between human nature and the Divine, while still trying to emulate the attributes of God. These attributes are commonly cited as the attributes of beauty, the attributes of majesty, the attributes of perfection, and the attributes of the essence. Reaching these attributes requires a person to relinquish his ego, and focus solely on how he can become more like God, while still staying humble and knowing his own human nature...
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...The Evil in Richard Wright’s “Between the World and Me” What is a rope? It’s a thing that established the rank, constraint the soul, and destroyed the lives. In Richard Wright’s enriching poem “Between the World and Me” (1935), a lynching is depicted and greatly astonished and influenced the speaker. Through the use of structure, religious symbolization, and diction, Wright successfully establishes the indignation that danced among the words. Structure is a great component in the poem. The poem’s structure channeled bountiful information regard the complex emotions within the narrator. The poem started with the word “and” and followed the word “suddenly.” A time sequence is suggested here. It is believed that the speaker tells his story from the middle of the memory. Such actions are much often recognized on “people who have survived atrocities. It is difficult for them to remain clearheaded and calm, to see more than a few fragments of the picture at one time, to retain all the pieces, and to fit them together” (Herman 1). In addition, the fragment sentences that display throughout the poem corroborate the point that the teller is traumatized. Furthermore, the poem can simply be chunks into four sections by the appearance of four periods. These groups of four periods not only separate the poem but also show a continuation of thoughts. They represent the broken, incomplete, and deficient memory of the speaker. Therefore, the narrator is absolutely astonishes by the scene...
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...like she had the upmost control. But of course, Cosimia's father, Crow Belly, was chief of the tribe and did not feel the same as the rest of their people. Cosimia's mother, Anika, had passed only a week after Cosimia's birth. Anika wanted nothing more than for Cosimia to be aside a noble chief when she grew up. She wanted Cosimia to have everything. Crow Belly did not want his daughter to even show her face. He blamed Cosimia for her mother's death and he has never felt the same after her passing. Each and every night Cosimia ran away from the tribe to a creek. She sat on a tree that barely hung over the creek. It was, as Cosimia called it, her hideaway. She sat upon the tree praying to the brilliant stars. She believed there was a sky god. One that looked down on her and gave her anything she requested. Cosimia prayed of forgiveness from her father. She prayed for an handsome Indian boy to cross her path one day. This time away from her father made Cosimia feel like she could do something right for once....
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...mother's death and he has never felt the same after her passing. Each and every night Cosimia ran a mile away from the tribe to a hidden creek. She sat on a tree that had been struck my lightening and just barely fell into the creek. It was, as Cosimia called it, her hideaway. She sat upon the tree praying to the brilliant stars. She believed there was a sky god. One that looked down on her and gave her anything she requested, as long as it was reasonable not too extensive. Cosimia prayed of forgiveness from her father. She prayed for...
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...Zhang zewei B00637895 The Unknown Citizen Analysis “The Unknown Citizen”, was written by W. H Auden during the 1920s and 30s, he reflected the major social issue of regulation was people facing in that era by using unknown citizen as a narrator with his own unique way. This poem criticizes regulation and normality, replacing individualism and liberalism. Frist of all, the title of this poem “The Unknown Citizen” indicates that a normal person will lose their individuality. With strong vocabulary and language the poem builds an overall atmosphere, which punctuates author’s points. Ironically, at the end of the poem there are two important questions “Was he free? Was he happy?” these questions add depth and meaning to this poem. In this poem the voice of a fictional government bureaucrat who sat in the office and shuffled documents every day, whose decisions would impact peoples’ lives; we do not know who he is. The clue of the information about this person derived from “Bureau of Statistics”, it tries to show the readers that everyone is typical and normal; therefore people will no longer be individual people. He is an unknown citizen because he just a typical person. More and more advanced technology showed up in this modern world as if humanity is beginning to fade away. It seems like human are increasingly becoming unknown citizens. The man in this poem is someone who lost his individually, and lost the concept of happiness, freedom, hope, dream,...
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...lesson is the one that took him the longest to learn. Gilgamesh, the half god- half man tyrant king,has no fear of death, but rather thinks he is untouchable. What he eventually learns is that man can die in more ways than one and that death is inevitable for everyone. He learns to live in the moment, for one never knows when their story is complete. At the beginning of the story, Gilgamesh has a certain view of death. He's not afraid of what happens after life but instead wants to die in the most glorious way possible. We first see Gilgamesh's this perspective when his best friend Enkidu and himself venture into a forbidden forest to vanquish a monster. Gilgamesh is bored and hungry for an adventure, so what does a...
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...goes, the monster is chased away because of its hideous appearance and its huge size. Shelley makes an effort explaining how often that people in conventional society reject that which is out of the ordinary or that which is unnerving and disfigured treading on the borders of our society. It’s hard to blame the monster for what happens to him, and Shelley provokes from the reader a sympathetic response for a creature that has been established as a misunderstood and lost soul in a world it was never meant to live in. The monster tries to fit into a regular community, but because it is grotesque to look at and does not know the social norms, he can never become part of mainstream society. The monster's response is to overcompensate for his lack of learning and then shun all human contact except when it is necessary to have it. The monster is a depiction of what happens when something that can be seen as strange or out of the ordinary enters a world that has established society, laws, and preconceived notions of man and God. The...
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...symbolizes events and life of the Jewish people, their experiences, laws, legends and the meaning and expressions of their gods. With the Bible, there has been a rough debate of many hundreds of years about the roots of it. The Bible has been written by the beginning of the tenth century, which was by the time the Hebrews have settled in Canaan. The Jewish religion declares that The Torah represents the history of Hebrew people. But scholars tend to argue that the stories that are apparently the creation of Moses and the Hebrew language, are off by more than five hundred years from Torah. Comparing the Hebrew flood story of Noah’s Ark, of 2348 B.C, there are many similarities found with the Epic of Gilgamesh. Both of these stories start out with God getting furious at the people. They, in his mind, were becoming more and more sinful, and because of that, he regretted of ever having to create the human race. So he goes to a man he chooses, Noah, and asks him to build a boat because he wants to get rid of humans. God then gives accurate measurements to Noah for the building of the boat. He then tells Noah to get animals on the boat, two of each, so they could survive. God reminds Noah that a great flood will occur that is to destroy all living things, but save Noah’s family if they get onto the boat. After the seven days have past, it started to rain, just like God has said it would. By that time, Noah had his family and two of each animals on his boat. The rain did not stop...
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...Located at the west end of the Nave, the Grave of the Unknown Warrior remains one of the world’s most visited war graves (“Unknown” 1). The Grave symbolizes all British lives lost during the first World War (Duell 1). On November 11, 1920, the Unknown Warrior became enshrined inside Westminster Abbey (“Unknown” 1). At the burial, King George V placed a handful of French soil on the coffin (Westminster - Dean 1). Afterwards, 100 sandbags of dirt from the battlefields of the War filled the Grave. A temporary stone then covered the coffin, bearing the following inscription: “A British warrior who fell in The Great War 1914 - 1918. Greater love hath no man than this” (Westminster - Dean 1). In the following week, over 1,250,000 people visited...
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...the most dangerous of the four errors and refers to it as “the real corruption of reason.” (Nietzsche qtd. in Classics of Philosophy 1060) (Religion and morality actually use this error in its teachings. Religion and morality follow a similar formula that proceeds as follows: “Do this and that, refrain from this and that – and then you will be happy! And if you don’t…” (Nietzsche qtd. in Classics of Philosophy 1060) It goes on to imply that straying from this ideal would lead to negative consequences. An example of how cause and effect are misconstrued is that man is destroyed by vices such as adultery or alcoholism. If a man who has lost everything but continues his dependence on alcohol it is easy to assume that his addiction is the cause of his downfall. Nietzsche claims otherwise. Alcoholism was not the cause of the mans downfall, rather it was an effect caused by the psychological deterioration of the man. The man did not lose everything because he chooses to drink; he turned to drinking as a way to cope with his loss because he was not...
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...recent years, the passengers of a commercial airliner included in the 9/11 tragedy were able to crash their plane before it reached its unknown, but surely, life-devastating destination. These were ordinary people were able to overtake armed, savagely trained terrorists. They were empowered by the hope of saving lives, which they did through their brave sacrifice. This kind of hope inspires many emotions and feelings. It allows people to convince themselves that what they want to happen will happen. This effect travels far beyond the mind. As hope strengthens ones mental ability, it allows a person to fully utilize him or herself. This hope is both a drive and inspiration. It works for positive and negative causes, but it does work to strengthen and empower a person. In the novel, Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown, several characters are empowered by hope; a hope that is the inspiration that causes people to be all that they can be. Robert Langdon, a scholar of religious symbology and professor at Harvard University, made a life changing decision based on hope. Langdon was phoned by a total stranger in the middle of the night. This stranger, Maximillian Kohler, was demanding to see Langdon in person. Langdon rejected this demand, but he soon changed his mind after being sent a fax of a dead body. Branded on the dead body was an eerie symbol both unknown and familiar to Langdon. Langdon recognized the symbol to be the symbol of the ancient brotherhood of the Illuminati. Langdon, and...
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