Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

In most cases, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Although in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main characters desire to be nothing like their fathers. They want a future that displays a whole different identity. Either from anger or sadness toward their father, Okonkwo and Nwoye would rather have a different last name and not be associated with him. From hate or fear they wanted to shape a personality with attributes separate from those of their dads. A father is supposed to…

There she was standing in the remote outbacks of Africa with a frightening looking, red, venomous snake looking right at her, she had a single thought racing through her mind –“why in the world did I risk my life for the secrets hidden in this cup of tea?” The unforgettable truth was searching for what she considered to be the weight loss “Holy Grail” - a liquid that ancient legends claimed completely erased hunger pains and food craving. The fable had her hooked, intrigued her to the state…

Della is the young wife of James (lovingly known as Jim) and together they lead a modest life together in a rented flat. They are very poor but that does not lesson the fact that they love each other deeply. The story is set to happen on Christmas eve which is the ideal time of gift exchanging. The story starts with Della planning to get the best gift to Jim, the one she loves, like everyone else does for Christmas. Her ability to get the perfect gift for Jim is hindered by the fact that they…

Throughout the world, many families get together and create traditions for Christmas. Each family I know goes about the same traditions, but they add their own spin to them to make it their own. As the year progress and gets closer to Christmas, my family gets anxious waiting for the perfect time to begin our annual traditions. When the time finally arrives, my family and I do the same thing every year. For our family traditions, we decorate the tree together, we make holiday cookies, and we…

In the Bible, the Apostle John proclaims “Sin is a master to whom we become enslaved” (John 8:34). The disciple John clarifies sin can consume one’s spirit completely: tearing a person apart from the guilt of their sins. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne implies a similar concept on how sin is capable of altering one’s character, along with the shame from their guilt. Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne utilizes key elements such as diction and rhetorical devices, to convey a…

since Adam and Eve live royally in Paradise. Because Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to eat from the tree of knowledge as Satan continues to disturb God’s work. Like a prison, hell is seen as a factory full of ungrateful and menacing angels consuming confinement as if they were hungry like piranhas in a…

The term evil can be defined as an immoral part of someone or a force in nature that gives rise to wickedness and sin. Both William Golding and Louis Stevenson explored the theme of evil in their books. They used the idea of evilness inside human nature, which was the same, but their own thoughts about basics of evilness was totally different. In this essay, I will look how evil is represented in both these novels through setting, characters and plot. Setting is the locale or period, which the…

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has a hell and a God that are in many ways difficult to process. Dante’s God can be seen as either a cruel God that encourages torture or a God with divine justice. He proposes a lot of possibilities that do not necessarily sit well with people. One major argument against his reasoning is that he submits people straight to hell just for not believing God. However, he places them in Circle one where their punishment is to have a near wonderful afterlife with the…

“Jeu d’Adam” in French and “Ordo representacionis” in Latin, is a 12th century non-liturgical drama, that is written in an Anglo-Norman French vernacular. It can be divided into three different parts: the first part deals with the creation of Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man, the second part tells the story of Cain and Abel and the last part is a presentation of the Old Testament’s prophets. This essay’s focus will be set on the first part of the play and how the architectural characteristics of…

By eating the fruit, Adam and Eve committed the first sin and ultimately let sin into the world. Humanity now needed something that would save them from sin and hell. God sent His son, Jesus, as the perfect sacrifice to accomplish just this. God provided Jesus to bridge the gap between…