Human sacrifice

The portrayal of irony is shown in two literary texts, a short story titled “Jacob's Chicken," by Milos Macourek and a poem titled “Porphyria’s Lover," by Robert Browning. Irony is an expression that is used to insinuate sarcasm; it typically signifies the opposite of what is said. In other words, irony is seen as appearance versus reality. The short story “Jacob’s Chicken” is about a passionate child who draws a unique chicken that others do not initially appreciate due to its unusual…

dilemma between pursuing the truth to doing what is just and right, and love of the daughter. "A Father's Story," by Andre Dubus explores the love of a father to his daughter that he is willing to protect her even if the process calls for him to sacrifice part of himself. To protect his daughter, the father is forced to undergo challenges, a conflict of the mind and his values. In the story, Luke Ripley who is the protagonist drops his core principles and ethical values purposely to protect his…

understand. It takes so much strength, love, patience, and wisdom to be a good parent. After writing this essay, I have a newfound respect for parents. Some may ask what the hardest job in the world is. To me, that job is being a parent. You have to sacrifice for your child, discipline your child, and know when you need to let your child go. And though some of these methods aren’t needed for every child, it breaks my heart to know that some need these styles of parenting. Some need to be kicked…

protagonists, do many things out of their love for each other and many times make careless decisions because of it. Jim and Della sacrifice their most prized possessions for each other, Della grows her hair long so Jim will ‘love her more’, and Jim works in an undesirable job for little pay for Della. The most obvious example of Jim and Della doing things out of love is they sacrifice their most prized possessions for each other (to get each other gifts), and in turn what they got went with…

purpose of its own story. In the third teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita verse fourteen includes a reference to the five fires, a passage in the Upanishads. This verse reads “creatures depend on food,/ food comes from rain,/ rain depends on sacrifice,/ and sacrifice comes from action” (BhG 3.14). The passage in the Upanishads that this verse gets its ideas from is found in chapter five…

back.” ― Peter S. Beagle. Making sacrifices for the ones you love is an essential, but as Peter S. Beagle stated, “You must must tear out your own, and not expect to get something back.” You can still make sacrifices that are stupid, foolish, and selfish no matter the size of it because you think you are doing it for them, but you actually are doing it for yourself. The books Romeo and Juliet and Of Mice and Men are great examples of showing good and bad sacrifices for the ones you love. Of Mice…

A dream can be defined in countless ways, as, in most cases; the meaning varies with each different person. To one a dream is a destination, to others a journey. However, no matter what the specified description, a dream always has the foundational definition of being a goal that one wants or feels they must attain. In the novel the time keeper, written by Mitch Albom, the underlying message of dreams is very strong within each character and the plot as a whole. Three characters make their…

The book the lottery is about a village that’s very agricultural. They do the lottery once a year and the Pearson that won the lottery was sacrificed to make a better growing season. This is how it works they all put their last name in a box and they mixed the names up and then they all got called to come up and draw. Their name and if you picked your family goes up and then a guy puts all of their family members name in the box and then if you were picked you were stoned to death because they…

The painting of the Sacrifice of Isaac by Juan de Valdes Leal represents a major theme prevalent in the Holy Bible, Antigone, and The Bhagavad-Gita. Sacrifice is the act of giving something up whether it be a person or thing, for a certain reason. In these three books as well as in the painting, sacrifice is used to show strength and emotion, but through different methods. In the Holy Bible, an example of sacrifice is when, “He (Abraham) bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the later, on top of…

Sacrifice is recognized in terms of appeasing a higher power; however, it goes beyond religion and fits into the idea of serving a greater good, with death or killing being justified by an end goal. Both novels, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov and Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, structure their story around the idea of sacrifice as it pushes the plot a certain way. The idea of giving to a higher idea or power is present throughout both, yet manifests in different ways.…