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mislead. Additionally, he depicts Elihu as an ignored and inessential in order to advance the idea of his worthlessness as a character in the story of Job. At the top of the eleventh engraving, directly above the image, there is a line that reads: “Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light and his Ministers into Ministers of…

deliberate choice to pick an apple and share it with her husband Adam. Throughout my time in church and numerous sermons preached by Pastors I have formed an image in my head of the moment the fall of man occurred. As I have grown up I have come to realize that although the choice of one person changed the world we must remember that Eve was just an ordinary person who struggled with temptation from Satan. Fall of Man Theological Definition: The Bible provides many tools which can be utilized…

The Archangel Finds His Champion Archangel Michael stared down from the golden glowing clouds of Heaven, searching the earth for The One. Lucifer had already found his moral warrior, the black king stealing the first move in their little game of sacrificial lambs and slaughter. Now it was Michael’s turn to select a pawn, to decide which little piece of the board he wanted to invade. There was a man, big and quick on his feet, an ideal fighter – yet not such a smart one. His left guard was…

Within society there is good and evil. Sometimes the good overrule the evil while at other time it’s reverse. It all comes down to one’s morality and inner strength. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne express the ruling of evil within mankind. In the story Brown has to face something in the forest but his wife mentions she is a afraid to have bad thoughts, but prayer will help strengthen one’s soul that fears. On his journey in the forest he meets and old man with a serpent on the staff…

Knowledge vs. Ignorance Adam and Job are knowledge-seeking people, but for different reasons. Adam is inexperienced, and like a child, he is naturally curious about the world around him. Job begins questioning only after he is struck by a curse and does not understand why. Adam first begins inquiring around Book V as Raphael enters the scene. Raphael warns Adam “Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit…If ye be found obedient and retain/Unalterably firm his love entire/Whose progeny you are”…

this is that if God’s children obey him and remain steadfast in their faith, God will bless them in ways that they could never have imagined. In the Book of Job, this promise is exemplified when Job, who is perfect in all ways, is cursed twice by Satan (with God’s permission), only to later be rewarded for his faith. A wise lesson on the merits of obedience, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote on a similar theme in “Story 10, Day 10” in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. In the short story, Gualtieri, a…

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas. In Young Goodman Brown symbolism is used multiple times. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism in his short story “Young Goodman Brown” through the pink ribbons, the staff, and Faith. Pink Ribbons The Pink Ribbons that are in Faith’s hat represent her purity because pink comes across as innocent. When the pink ribbons fall out of the sky, Goodman Brown saw it that Faith had fallen into the hands of the devil. At the end of the story when Faith…

Faith, in the afternoon to follow the traveller into the forest to their meeting. On his journey to the forest, he discovers the traveller was the devil and they are going to a devil-worshipping ceremony. He realizes that members of his community and church are attending this ceremony and they are part of the sacrifice. Through Hawthorne’s literary devices, the readers can see…

“You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there.” (Golding 182). Lord of the Flies translates to Beelzebub in Greek which translates back to the Devil or Satan. When the Lord of the Flies comes out to meet Simon who symbolizes Jesus, he tries to tempt him into ruining the tribe. In the bible, the devil tries to tempt Jesus in the desert for forty days. He asks Jesus to turn the stones in bread, fall off a…

The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…