Antithesis

Mankind has often tried to unite with a silenced yet ever-bearing nature for the sake of unique creation and experience. With the obliged assistance of all things natural, mankind is inspired to progressively discover all forms of beauty and spirituality. This inspiration is said to have given way to the era of Romanticism which began in Europe during the mid/late 18th century as a revolt against the aristocracy and the corresponding politics of the Age of Enlightenment. European Romantic ideals…

The concept of strength informs the political landscape in the United States, especially within Republican and conservative circles. Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery is an exploration of these different types of strengths and weaknesses within American conservatism, as well as within the privileged personal lives of its characters, most of whom attended a private, Catholic school in the middle of Wyoming. The problem with this Transfiguration College of Wyoming, as suggested by Heroes…

Schmitt’s claim of the distinctiveness of politics from economics is grounded by his definition of ‘the political’, where “political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy” (p26). This grouping is independent of other antithesis, is decisive, and is inflexible: you can only be either a friend or an enemy. The enemy is hostis in which “extreme case conflicts with him are possible”(p27). The nature of politics, hence involves the potentiality for death, as war is the…

Goodness is the very heart of the whole reign of moral values. It is by no accident that the term "good" means moral value as such, and also the specific moral quality of goodness. Among the different moral values there is none which embodies more completely the entire reign of moral values, than goodness; in it we find the purest and most typical expression of the general character of moral goodness as such. It is the center of all morality, and at the same time, it’s most sublime fruit. Its…

The pig’s head is labeled “the lord of the flies” by the boys on the island which is a strong antithesis to Simon because “this title is a translation of ‘Beelzebub,’ another name for the Devil” (Telgen). The bible story of Jesus walking in the desert and being tempted by the devil is similar to the scene where Simon began to hallucinate about the…

People are desensitized to suffering in George Orwell's 1984, so much so that society is cruel when it occurs. This normalized cruelty drives much of the plot- people are permanently vaporized and brutal acts of war are announced every day without anyone caring- while also indicating that the Party will always triumph in the end because society is shaped to be apathetic about the inhumanity of the world. The cruel indifference of the society is revealed fairly early on. After writing in his…

In the novel Moo, Jane Smiley uses Dean Nils Harstad, Marly Hellmich, Dr. Gift, and Chairman X to emphasize how, when there is a conflict between personal belief systems and workplace practices, individuals will sacrifice their morals to reduce the amount of time or effort required to achieve their professional or personal goals. The belief systems discussed can be either religiously, politically, or economically centered. Using religious symbolism, Smiley utilizes the sacrificed beliefs of the…

Christians, for they lived with the fear of impending death. Despite this, Christianity prevailed; however, such might not have been possible had it not have had the promise of eternal life, a loving God, and the message of love. Christianity was the antithesis of the pre-established Roman Empire,…

In Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon argues in favor of anti-colonial violence. When the colonized are forcibly stripped of their culture, language and of its humanity, they will naturally retaliate with violence, because it is the only option left of achieving decolonization. Fanon asserts that the colonizer uses a language of pure violence against the colonized. Because of this, the only communication possible between the colonizer and the colonized is violence. The French colonial policies…

An experience that changed my life forever was coming to Northwest Christian for high school. Before I attended Northwest I spent all of elementary school and middle school at Rancho Solano. Although my time there was great, it was taught in a strictly academic worldview. Then during my eighth grade year, I made the decision to enroll in Boulder Creek High School. I began to get nervous because of the change in size, but then I started to embrace the idea of change. Over the last six months…