Circle

Narrator Scout Finch attends her Aunt Alexandra’s missionary circle meeting and the reader learns, through Scout's narration, that hypocracy is alive in the white church of Maycomb County. The women of the circle were discussing supporting missionary J. Grimes Everett, who was working in Africa to christianize the Mruna tribe. The irony is that the women of the missionary circle were perfectly happy to help Africans who were far removed from their world, while at the…

completely through the earth and hell. He winds up at the base of the heap of Purgatory on the opposite side. On the highest point of Purgatory there is the terrestrial heaven (the garden of Eden), and after that he works his way through the divine circles. It is the plot of the Divine Comedy and the account of Dante's adventure towards reclamation. The Inferno is for the most part thought to be the best and most fascinating part, which might be an aftereffect of its backwards structure. The…

extent, do not agree with Dante’s ranking of sins. This is mostly because I do not think that some of the sins should be ranked where they are (in the book), in today’s world. It has can seen in many instances in Inferno that people are in the circles of Hell they are in because of a technicality. Dante and Virgil…

How would you feel if everything you encountered in life, you were apprehensive about? Most people would consider you paranoid or eccentric, but this was exactly what the philosopher Descartes was accredited for. In Sophie’s World by Joseph Gaarder, Descartes is one of the philosophers discussed and one who I dissented with. I comprehend his way of thinking, but I do not necessarily agree to it. Descartes’s thought development followed a series of points I disagreed with – senses may not be…

and it is something everyone will encounter during his life. Joyce manifests the notion of the epiphany through symbolic motifs that appear in the short stories, such as the references to circles, glasses, and the East in comparison to the West. An important leitmotif Joyce uses is the motif of circles. A circle is a constant loop that continues forever without a stopping point and no clear…

Dante, the author of the Inferno, portrays Virgil's character as protective throughout the dangers of Hell such as entering Bolgia Six in the Eighth Circle, where he would have died if Virgil had not been there. "Seizing me instantly in his arms, my Guide/ Like a mother... takes her child and runs and more concerned for him than herself... raised me/" (Canto, Line). Because Virgil is knowledgeable and…

uncle Jack played a clever joke upon me. He pulled out a piece of paper from his breast pocket and upon it inscribed a circle, telling me that he would give me a dollar if I could trace the circle with my finger from beginning to end, not stopping until I hit a clear ending point. Me being the money loving, competitive and enthusiastic rugrat I was, I set right to work, tracing the circle from a random…

portrayed in his short story “The Room”, starring the desperate protagonist Bob Crane who tries to escape a corporate control dystopian world invaded by ads and consumerism by moving into an antique apartment, but ultimately fails. Stuck in a vicious circle as the apartment owner is going to “treat” his deviant behaviour.…

equilateral triangles. The professional men and gentlemen are made up of squares and pentagons. And finally the nobility’s. Were grouped due to their six or more sides. The more the shape was to a circle the higher class there were in. The movie dose a good job conveying this society rule. In the movie the circles were in charge. While the squares were office workers and the triangles were either solders or factor workers. You see this when Aruther square is taking his granddaughter to school…

Dante’s Inferno depicts the journey through the circles of Hell embarked upon by a character who shares his namesake, and his companion-guide Virgil. Throughout the nine circles he is met by various sinners of increasing degree. The punishments they receive are meant to be fitting and are therefore symbolic of the sins that were perpetrated above in the land of the living. Dante’s tale also includes the passage to hell in which he is met by creatures acting as a foreshadowing of what awaits…