Deus Caritas Est

Both Hynes and Owen are depicting harrowing moments of suffering in their own respective ways. While Owen’s recounts the miseries endured in World War 1, Hynes focuses on her mother’s personal battle with cancer. Both depict suffering yet the two events differ in scope, WW1 was enormous, encompassing and after shock inducing in a world that had yet faced such despair. This was a public event yet Owens narrows the scope to the perspective of his comrades. Hynes focuses on a private struggle and…

The dead man is then thrown into a wagon, implying the normalcy of death, and the speaker says that “you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori” (Dulce et Decorum Est). The last line translates to, “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country”. This poem conveys the deathly conditions that the men had to face daily, and how the reality of the war is far from the reality given to the public…

One excerpt claims, “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”As simplistic as it may seem the quote holds much weight. This compares a long established assumption with a negative connotation word, “lie.” “Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori” translates to, “sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.” As we learn from the entirety of the poem the many horrors of war the endured…

The Frist World War or the Great War as it is also known was the most formative event of the previous century, and is arguably still influencing the world today. A conflict of this magnitude, naturally, has generated a large amount of media and literature to address the many themes and aspects that were created by the war. While there are many hundreds of issues and themes from the Great War, for the purpose of this paper we will on focus on ten issues that I believe to be some of the most…

The image of smoke is tied somewhat ironically to both the act of destruction and the ability to engender complexities out of the raw materials of the earth. Smoke is indicative of fire -- a tool that has been simultaneously feared and utilized by humans for millennia. Given its relationship with destruction, smoke is often paired with images of war and conflict; thus, it is no surprise when Stephen Crane utilizes this symbol in the Red Badge of Courage to reflect the nature of war and its…

can understand divine love from God then we can reason why Christ is the redeemer of the world. Christ becoming the redeemer was started by God’s act of divine love, Christ being put on the cross and dying for our sins, something Benedict in Deus caritas est also argues. O’Collins summarizes, “None of these images for the redemptive process can be properly appreciated if we neglect the divine love revealed and at work in Christ” (Christology, p.300). The images we is referring to are the…