John Milton

Where do we go when we die? Everyone is their own person when their dead. You don ́t have any type of communication with NO ONE at all except God. God created the earth, planets, space,etc. We all human beings, animals, insects, etc was created by the man above. Heaven and Hell is our two decisions that God decides for us to go for eternity. Heaven and Hell was created by God, Heaven for Jesus and Hell for the Devil. There are angels in Heaven that was born in B.C and after christ. Angels such as…

complexity, under which the narrative can be lost to the reader without guidance. As such, they are integral to understanding Books One and Two, during which Satan confers with his legion of fallen angels and plots their continued defiance against God. Milton painstakingly details each event and movement Satan and his devils make, and “proposes” the given book’s major thematic…

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance is a recollection of his childhood which was much different than others. Vance grew up as a hillbilly in a poor family surrounded by other people in poverty, despite his destine future of being the same, he ended up in the Marines and then went to Harvard. The way J.D. Vance shaped his life and accomplished the American Dream is a role model for us all. In the end, Vance asserts that, “Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems…

Intro-Dante Alighieri's narrative poem The Divine Comedy played an effective role in initiating the protestant reformation and revealing to the common person the importance of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its…

Tragic love stories have fascinated humans since ancient times. They conquered the hearts of many and opened the ways for more love stories. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – to October 1400) is one of the most famous English authors of the middle ages. Chaucer is considered the father of English literature and thrilled the mass with his literary works. His most famous works include the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Yet, again a tragic love story that is still widely popular in the 21st…

In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses allegory to portray how the boys on the island represent the corruption of man. Lawrence Friedman, in his 1997 essay “Grief, Grief, Grief: Lord of the Flies”, states that “the island opens in Eden.” He uses this to show how the boys are allusions to Adam and Eve, being in paradise, bringing sin and evil, and then ultimately destroying it. In his essay, “Good Grief: Lord of the Flies as a post war rewriting of salvation history”, Marijke van Vuuren…

Grendel from Beowulf and Satan from Paradise Lost can be both compared and contrasted, shown by the text. Grendel is described as an evil, powerful monster (Beowulf 23). Satan in the story Paradise Lost, is also described as a monster born of cain and the archenemy of God (Beowulf 38-51). While Beowulf’s Grendel and Paradise Lost’s Satan exemplify power, evil, and unsuccessfulness, their tactics prove different. Grendel and Satan can be compared as powerful. We can see this in Grendel through…

Nathanael Nading Mrs. Nading Shakespeare and Poetry February 23, 2018 Henry V: Alexander the Pig Among those who study and interpret Shakespeare, there is an ongoing debate over Henry V's title of, "...the mirror of all Christian kings" (Shakespeare, 39). Following the obvious meaning of the phrase, Henry is the model of a Christian king - valiant, just, bringing joy to all in his company. In a more twisted view, Henry is, as a reflection shows the opposite of the reality, the opposite of a…

Future Event Number Eight: The Seven Seal Judgments Up to now, it has been the enemies of God wrecking havoc on the earth, but things are about to change dramatically. God has physically intervened, and will carry the battle to the wicked by a series of judgments. The first segment of judgments is called the seven seal judgments, which are, like all the judgments, aimed at the wicked with two objectives in mind. First, to let the wicked reap what they have sown, thus fulfilling God’s justice,…

“The Lord of the Flies”, written by William Golding, explores the inescapable sinful nature of humans. Golding’s book reflects upon the Garden of Eden in order to address this true nature of mankind. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve commit sin by eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Although they were placed in a perfect environment where all of their needs were met, they soon became corrupted by their primitive drive for pleasure and power. As a result of their sinful…