Inklings

C.S. Lewis: The Story Surrounding the Stunning Success Clive Staples Lewis An exceedingly renowned author, C.S. Lewis, has challenged the world of literature, reflecting his Christian values and life within his hundreds of books. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” (Lewis 140) Various agnostic scholars agree Lewis’ writing is impeccable and his theology is well-thought and credible. Considering what…

Presence of the Unsuspected New Woman in Dracula The world renowned Dracula, a novel of seductive vampires, deception, lust, gothic horror, and vengeful murder has a secret. The unsuspected presence of the new woman. Throughout history, the same generalizations and assumptions concerning women have remained intact. Society as a whole, until very recently has considered women of their own culture to be weak, submissive, docile, and bound by marriage. The idea of the new woman was birthed in the…

A single, all-knowing entity is central to the religion that I had grown up with. A god named God a figure of perfection who cradles the world. Watching over the people of Earth and holding control of what goes on with no-one sitting at his level sharing such an amazing power of creation. God made it all and holds so much faith from the people and for the people, but no matter what anyone says, I cannot bear the thought of giving all of my faith to someone or something so inhumanely “pure”.…

In Act III Scene IV, Hamlet and Gertrude have a strange encounter in which the former sees the ghost of King Hamlet while the latter does not. Thereby, causing Gertrude to think that Hamlet has gone mad. This is similar to the song The Monster by Eminem and Rihanna. Within the chorus, Rihanna sings I 'm friends with the monster that 's under my bed Get along with the voices inside of my head You trying to save me, stop holding your breath And you think I 'm crazy, yeah, you think I 'm crazy.…

Isra Tanveer Professor Loubser English 1302 4 October 2017 A Sinful Heart In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown,” the narrator illustrates Brown’s corruptibility through his rejection of the good and unambiguous submission to the evil. This gothic romanticism reveals a young man of Puritan faith who goes on a journey that depicts the cant nature of the people living in the Salem village. The pilgrimage allows him to learn about the malevolence that lies in his towns’ history…

By The Waters of Babylon is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benét, first published July 31, 1937. It’s a story written under the threat of a second world war in a world still recovering from the first. Whether you like post-apocalyptic stories or not, this is a story that is certain to resonate with most audiences because of its moral and plot twists. John, son of John-- is this story’s quintessential protagonist. He is to go on a journey and learn the secrets of the world, or in this…

When a person thinks, sometimes he or she does not always catch on to all that is presented the first time. This is what Terry Pratchett terms “First Thoughts” in his book, The Wee Free Men. First Thoughts are the thoughts initially had, whereas Second Thoughts are the thoughts that have been analyzed and looked over again. In The Wee Free Men, the main character, Tiffany, wants to become a witch and has a certain set of ideas about what a witch’s duties are. The ideas she has are her First…

The steps towards a deeper experience of love and an overall sense of living is panned out within Johann Christoph Arnolds’ “Why Forgive?”. The act of forgiving can be viewed from various perspectives. The dictionary describes it to be when the victim ceases to feel resentment against an offender(Webster). This is a very straight forward definition. In the sense of the bible the idea forgiveness begins to become more in depth. A definition for forgiveness could be -- giving up my right to hurt…

clandestine organization. Suddenly Fitz is running an immense security organization responsible for data and communications systems supporting one of the most massive international military operations in the history of the modern world. I have only an inkling of what he has been doing, but whatever it was, it involved secure communications and was…

Cogito ergo sum is perhaps the birth of the modern philosophical movement for multiple reasons. The famous phrase of Descartes’ when translated means, I think, therefore, I am, and was the first of a series of logical proofs that Descartes made to help prove his own existence. Up until this time, the history of modern philosophy had relied on arguments about or involving God. Descartes is credited with writing ““Meditations” as the rejection of medieval ways of thinking and the invention of the…