Conscience as Voice of God Essay

advice when they need an objective voice. Sophocles uses him to stress the moral values of compassion, kindness, restraint, and reason that both kings ignore. Both Oedipus and Creon value manmade laws against the advice of Teiresias, and remain ignorant. In creating a revered character who possesses such knowledge, Sophocles emphasizes the importance of seeking the counsel of the gods’ representative on earth. Teiresias is truly the intermediary voice between the gods and…

murdering King Duncan, he imagines that there are voices speaking to him through the walls. The voices he hears are his thoughts projected. He shares what he hears with Lady Macbeth, “There’s one did laugh in ’s sleep, and one cried/ ‘Murder!’” (Mac. 2.2.30-31). He envisions that these voices are his guests and they are laughing at him. He imagines that they are taunting him for committing the murder. The fantasies continue and Macbeth hears, “One cried ‘God bless us’ and ‘Amen’ the other,”…

The Power of Integrity If you were given a choice: your integrity or your life, which would you chose? In the play, The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, reveals that most people chose their life over their integrity. The Crucible illustrates that this decision leads greater chaos and distrust through the hysteria that occurred in Salem in 1692. In this time people start to lie and accuse their neighbor of witchcraft to save themselves from the punishment, while their neighbors either hang…

The female voice is one that – at times – creates palpable controversy whether in reality or in text. It can be compelling, inspiring, or empowering if used effectively. Women have been fighting for a voice for years and between the 20th and 21st century, women 's voices have emerged and been heard. A young girl forced to grow up too soon is subjected to play the role of a woman, wife and a mother all at one. During the era in which she grew up women did not have voices, consequently…

to make the prophecy come true. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth then plot to kill everyone that could stop them from being King and Queen. Unfortunately for the Macbeth’s, all of this death takes a toll on the them in the form of a guilty conscience. Their guilty consciences allows Shakespeare to depict how guilt can destroy…

Freedom needs more expressed. We have the right in our belief. Voices from the people that should be heard to better our society. Many people feel that the established rule are not all equal for everyone. However, others argue that laws are set to protect everyone. Henry David Thoreau's clam is correct that one should break the law if one is an agent to injustice because everyone should have an equal right for what they believe in as demonstrated in Hero or Traitor article, Veteran Civil Right…

book, which focuses on the biblical teaching of Revelation: God Speaks. In today’s day and age communication has become a necessity for our everyday lives to run smoothly. While there are many different ways that we as the human communicate, the question of how do we hear God is frequently posed. Does He speak through my spirit, through a holy man, or some ancient wisdom? One of the first things we have to understand is that God created us in His image so that we would be able to have…

from wrong, is dependent on one’s conscience, yet the corruption due to ignorance can lead to vileness and immorality. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby satirizes the incorrect societal values and inevitable corruption with the existence of immorality in both the protagonist and the antagonist. Their false idolization of the personified American Dream and inherited social status results in the defiance against the Catechism of worshipping the one and only God. Furthermore, their dishonesty…

see him as a dauntless hero, held in high regard by the King of Scotland and his people. By Act 2, ambition, his tragic flaw, leads him from a loyal subject to his liege to murderer with a bit of a conscience. Again in Act 3 we see more bloodshed, however this time the murder is done without any conscience at all, “It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood” (3.4 124). Macbeth’s tragic flaw of ambition transforms his character throughout Shakespeare 's play. King Duncan rejoices over…

(Foner 65). The purpose of traveling to the new world was to practice their belief of Calvinism, which taught predestination; nothing on earth such as praying, offerings and good works (Foner 65) would get you into heaven, only if you are predestined by God. Their settlement in the New England colony established a basis for a stable and thriving society (Foner 67) because of their strong foundation in religion and family structure. For example, in a family, male held authority and married women…