Exile and the Kingdom

The “Babylonian Exile” is one of the most famous exiles in history. The Jewish people of Babylon were exiled to the Kingdom of Judah due to their religion. Just like what happened to two of the main character’s of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the Price family is among the main characters. The family is made up of Nathan Price, the Reverend who led his family on a mission trip. That is all he seemed to care about, seeing how he never had a spark…

present in the existentialist cultural movement, in opposition to previous philosophical theories which considered the world with an objective and external viewpoint. Moreover, the detailed illustration of the nature allows the reader to perceive Daru's exile from a silent and impassive world. For example the plateau, during the eight months of drought, is described as "calcinée", "recroquevillée", "torréfiée" (Camus, 1957:83) while the weather is dry and the sun burns fields of stones.…

Assyrians who lived in the Mesopotamia Valley from 5500BC to 220AD. Specifically, it was the Assyrians and the Babylonians who used their political and cultural influences to control a young nation of Israelites by making first the Kingdom of Israel and then later the Kingdom of Judah a vassal nation under the rule…

In the elegiac poem, “The Seafarer”, translated by Burton Raffel, dualism affects its poetic structure, its imagery, its controlling metaphor, and its theme. Dualism dictates the tone in the story. It begins with a desolate tone in the first stanza, “And forth in sorrow and fear and pain, / Showed me suffering in a hundred ships,” (lines 3-4). The narrator’s life is difficult and sometimes this difficulty causes him pain and suffering. “The Seafarer” transitions to a more excited and surprised…

explore Southern Italy during his exile? Many people do believe so because during his exile he traveled very often and in fact, the famous author B. Lucrezi states that in Dante’s work Convivio, he explicitly says to have been traveling thoughout the whole Italian peninsula. Furthermore, Dante, in his Divine Comedy, often refers to places, facts, characters, and some dialect sayings from Southern Italy. Nothing forbids us to believe that Dante Alighieri, during his exile, had visited Southern…

of the kingdom of Israel and the Israelite people’s exile to Babylon. A striking similarity is found in Sarga 39 of the Aranya Kanda, where the demon Maareecha advises Ravana that abducting Sita is a foolhardy endeavor that will surely be punished by the destruction of the entire demon race. Even after Ravana refuses to heed Maareecha’s warning, he is confronted again by Sita, Hanuman, and even his own wife Mandodari with similar warnings and prophesies foretelling the doom of his kingdom and…

In the book We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart, there were many aspects of the story's that were not essential to complete this book, yet were added anyway to add flavor to the book and conceal the story’s ending until you get to the end, which ties everything back together. One of the aspects was in the way she uses fairy tales. In this book, every so often the author starts out the chapter with a fairy tale, in the beginning; it is harder for the reader to understand why that the fairy tales are in…

“Kingdom of God”, “the day of the LORD”, “the end of the world”, “the last judgment” and “a new heaven and a new earth.” These words are the image of eschatology, and eschatology is an important subject in the Bible. Even Donald K. McKim says that the theme of the Bible is the kingdom of God (McKim, 167). In the Gospel, Jesus taught about the kingdom of God in his whole life and ministry, and the kingdom of God is represented as “already, but not yet” (McKim, 170). John Calvin, a 16th century…

characters to be seen in a cartoon meant for children. Avatar the Last Airbender is a story of the Avatar; the story is set in a fictional world that has been in a war for the past a hundred years, separated into four nations; water tribes, earth kingdom, fire nation and air nomads were some people have the ability to bend one of the four elements; earth, fire, air and water. The avatar has the ability to use all the elements; the current avatar is Aang age an Air Nomad destined to end the…

What is the “problem” of the story of Oedipus, and how is it resolved? Thebes has suffered an unknowable plague, so many citizens are passed away. For this reason, Oedipus, the king of Thebes, sent Creon, his brother in law, to the Delphi to get oracle about the plague. Creon comes back to Thebes with the oracle that the plague occurs since the murder of Laius, prior king of Thebes before Oedipus is in Thebes. Therefore, plague will be disappeared when the murder is disappeared in Thebes.…