Crown of Thorns

The Forest Cult It’s late, I’m running. Sprinting away from something don’t know the likes of. At this anonymous forest, heart pumping, feet are numb, I feel like my body is about to get annihilated. I check my phone “Wow, it’s already 2 am”. My phone battery is drained to the last bit, I fall into a deep sleep, and suddenly, all hope has disappeared. November of 2009: “Hey,” she says waking me from my half-asleep and half-awake state “Want a drink?”. “Sure,” I say, signaling a bartender to get…

Claude McKay was an influential leader of the Harlem Renaissance who also advocated against the racism that African-Americans receive. He wrote many works for this cause, among them was the poem “America” inside of the text of his book Harlem Shadows. People have many different thoughts and beliefs about the poems. James R. Keller tries to give his analysis of "America" along with McKay’s other works. Keller explains this in his article titled as “ ‘A Chafing Savage, Down the Decent Street’:…

It almost seems as if human nature itself promotes violence among individuals; however, it is not the only pushing force that causes a person to lift a knife against their fellow man, and certainly not the most powerful. Grief, anger, and a corrupted mind all serve to instigate violent acts in both literature as well as the real world. Although a person can pick up a fictitious book about murder and laugh it off as nothing more than a story, it is important to realize that everything that was…

Explanation: After this, Pilate had Jesus scourged. The soldiers put on him a purple robe, crowned him with a crown of thorns, and called him the King of the Jews, hitting him and mocking him. So Pilate again brought Jesus before the people and showed him to them, telling them that he had found nothing wrong in him. But the Jewish rulers cried for his blood. Pilate, frustrated, told them to crucify him themselves because he found no fault in him. The Jews then explain to Pilate that they…

The problematic christ, and struggle between male and female power. Veronica Roth once said, “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.” In the Novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kessey in 1962, the story of a man named Randal Mcmurphy who is brought onto the ward after a court decision, is told through the eyes of a schizophrenic named Cheif Bromden who has frequent hallucinations. When Mcmurphy arrives to the hospital…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest If someone else was manipulating and the engineering one’s idea of society and normality, what would one expect? This is the case in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, articulates the novel, and the setting takes place in an insane asylum with a strict tyrannical administrator, Nurse Ratched. In addition, “Big Nurse Ratched” is considerably the representative of society as she tries to mold everyone…

Each of the Mirabal sisters are very courageous, even though some are more outspoken than others. Patria develops her courage out of necessity when she witnesses the horror of Trujillo’s regime. Minerva is the most outwardly courageous of the four sisters and her bravery comes more naturally. Dedé is the most reserved of them all, however she still finds ways to display her bravery and help her sisters. Maria Teresa looks up to Minerva and models her courage after Minerva’s, but she still…

In their prelapsarian state, Adam and Eve were set to reap “immortal fruits of joy and love” (III.67) but after eating of the forbidden fruit they realize that this will no longer be the case. Adam bemoans how they “might have lived and joyed immortal bliss/Yet willing chose rather death,” (IX.1166-1167) and this fact is quickly confirmed by Jesus. Jesus judges Adam and tells him he will “return unto the ground for thou/Out of the ground wast taken. Know thy birth,/For dust thou art and shalt…

fishing trip and bringing the prostitute. Just as he shares emotional characteristics with Christ, he also shares a physical resemblance. McMurphy shares a head wound at the end of the novel, which acts as a connection to the wound of Christ by the crown of thorns during the crucifixion. In relation to the event leading up to Christ 's death, McMurphy hosts a Last supper with his closest friend or disciples, he even mixes grape juice with cough syrup at the gathering that closely resembles that…

story to tell. I read her placard and was surprised that the cage around her legs and waist was a dress. When I found out that it was her dress, I immediately thought that she was a prisoner of her gown. I did not know if the dress of thorns was an allegory to Christ’s crown, but I could tell by her gesture and nearly nude body that she is vulnerable. Saar chose an especially dark wood for the woman to be composed of, a shade almost unnatural for actual human beings. This expresses a deep…