Church of Satan

In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses allegory to portray how the boys on the island represent the corruption of man. Lawrence Friedman, in his 1997 essay “Grief, Grief, Grief: Lord of the Flies”, states that “the island opens in Eden.” He uses this to show how the boys are allusions to Adam and Eve, being in paradise, bringing sin and evil, and then ultimately destroying it. In his essay, “Good Grief: Lord of the Flies as a post war rewriting of salvation history”, Marijke van Vuuren…

Grendel from Beowulf and Satan from Paradise Lost can be both compared and contrasted, shown by the text. Grendel is described as an evil, powerful monster (Beowulf 23). Satan in the story Paradise Lost, is also described as a monster born of cain and the archenemy of God (Beowulf 38-51). While Beowulf’s Grendel and Paradise Lost’s Satan exemplify power, evil, and unsuccessfulness, their tactics prove different. Grendel and Satan can be compared as powerful. We can see this in Grendel through…

The book of Genesis presents God as being directly involved with the development of humanity, particularly during the time spent with Adam in the Garden. The closeness is continued in Exodus as God uses Moses to guides the Hebrews out of the oppressive system in Egypt. The scriptures of Deuteronomy and Joshua continue to examine God’s closeness with the Hebrews. The laws given to the Hebrews that describe how they should conduct themselves suggests God’s concern for the Hebrew’s well-being.…

Young Goodman Brown and Religious Hypocrisy In the short story, Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of religious hypocrisy plays a huge role. The short story is about a man known as Young Goodman Brown who leaves the city of Salem, leaves behind his family to meet an old man. He goes without knowing who he is and what his intentions are. The old man is like any other but in his hand, he holds a staff carved to what seemed to be like a living snake. Goodman Brown notices that…

“tail” could be a euphemism. Herodotus describes the hippopotamus and crocodile as denizens of Egypt (Histories, Book 2.68-71) and they appear together in a ceiling panel of the Ramesseum (REF) as opponents of the pharaoh. Behemoth and Leviathan may merge literal and mythic interpretations and exist on the edge (“liminal”) somewhere between natural observable reality and supernatural realities. If so, they may represent the undefinable realms of chaos on both land (Behemoth) and sea (Leviathan).…

Satan disguised as a cherub tricks Uriel, one of the seven archangels, and as soon as he realizes his mistake he warns Gabriel that someone has trespassed the Garden of Eden. Milton describes the devolution or degeneration of Satan since the rebellion to when he faces Gabriel and the other archangels in Eden. He starts as an archangel (when God creates him); then to a cherub (much lesser angel); from cherub to a bird (which is the last shape he has with the ability to fly); a lion and then a…

Motif- The Sea Quote Literary/ Style Elements Commentary Additional Ideas “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abyss of solitude.” (15,124) Personification of the sea. Sounds of the sea create imagery. Chopin personifies the sea as a seductress to rationalize the pull it has on Edna. It emulates a feeling of giving into temptation and letting go of the chains that bind Edna and entice her to jump…

The Screwtape Letters is about a senior demon named Screwtape teaching his nephew, Wormwood about how to tempt a man (the patient) away from God and towards Satan. One category of shared humanity in the novel is morality. This characteristic is best shown when Screwtape writes to Wormwood, “The patient does not “own” time anymore than he knows the owns the moon.” (67) This is important because it illustrates Lewis using logic rather than just blind faith to prove Christianity as true. While…

Job does resemble Morrie's current situation, and that there is a parallel in between characters. The story of Job is about a man who is tested for his "sovereignty and faithfulness during a time of great suffering" (Biblehub) towards God because Satan believes that "Job is only good because God has blessed him abundantly [and] ... if given permission to punish the man, Job will turn and curse God" (SparkNotes). Though Morrie does not get everything taken away from him, he is tested by God to…

A sacred tree is all it takes to introduce sin to the pure. “the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’” Why would god and the other believers allow these people to commit these forbidden sins? However, who could resist the temptation of knowledge and the desire for something you can’t have. Women play an immense role in both stories, for…