Our Lady of Sorrows

(264-271) Antagonizing God once again, Chaucer says that it’s not Venus’ fault for being so beautiful, but God’s fault for making her so desirable that Mars couldn’t help but fall madly in love with her. Mars also compares his sorrow of not being with Venus to the death of him and directly blames God for his death. With this accusation, he doesn’t offer any answer to the motives behind his God’s actions, but rather continues to display Mars as a victim whose happiness is long…

As we celebrate the birth of Our Lord on this Holiest of days, we need to look at the Cross. For on this day, Salvation entered into human history. For this child, this beautiful child, is this man on the Cross. Jesus, Son of Mary, the only Begotten Son of God who bore our sins to set us free from the bondage of sin and death. For without His death, we would not be in this Church this day celebrating His birth. The joy of Christmas is not for a day or a season. It is an eternal joy, a joy that…

Macbeth’s True Downfall “Is this a dagger which I see before me” (2,1,33). “A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”(2,1,38-39) So begins Macbeth, a classic play by William Shakespeare. Our protagonist, a war hero and a respected person by all, could be falling into madness. Though, there might be more going on in the title character’s head than what’s realized. The possibility that Macbeth may suffer from a Mental Illness is quite high, but one in…

pushing him around, because thats what big brothers are supposed to do. One of the things I remember most vividly about him was waking up every morning to play soccer with a tennis ball we found, and racing each other all through town with our hands behind our backs pretending we were cars. Everyday wasn’t always perfect, like those days we spent chasing each other because we fought, just like all siblings, and I didn't always appreciate having a younger brother. Growing up , I’ve heard…

Humans are set apart from animals and other organisms because they have the ability to think rationally and to question their existence here on earth. Humans are able to ponder the infinite beyond as well as what their lives strive for. Although there are no direct answers to the question of life, humans are able to get a sense of what this life is all about. In many of the works, the characters are unable to grasp what their purpose is- sometimes straying so far that their choices lead to their…

T. Ray and Deborah are the mother and father of Lily, who is the main character in The Secret Life of Bees. Deborah was forced to marry T. Ray because she was pregnant with Lily and had to move in with him. This forced marriage sparked the rocky relationship between Deborah and T. Ray . When Lily was 4 years old, her mother died. Lily had accidently shot her mother and killed her. This tragic event sent both Lily and T. Ray into an emotionally unstable frenzy. Throughout the story Lily is trying…

passion to relive against the oppression of society. Peter is Clarissa’s ex-suitor who empowers her to resolve her personal predicament, “This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows, courage and endurance; a perfectly up right and stoical bearing"(Woolf 9-10). Put differently, for Bergson the inner time Is “a continuous progress of the past which gnaws into the future and which swells as it advances. And as the past grows…

In “The Minister's Black Veil” does not necessarily write about love. “How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr.Hooper's face.” (Hawthorne 5) This means that Mr.Hooper could wear a black veil but it’ll be weird for the people because they only women would wear it and not men. The people think it’s strange for a man to wear a black veil because nobody hasn’t seen a man wearing a black veil…

in the house I saw he had been crying” (Lee 84). Although she acknowledges the fact that Jem is full of sorrow, she is oblivious as to why. Scout just thinks he is being maudlin, and does not make the connection Jem does about Boo. This shows how Jem is starting to realize that Maycomb is not as perfect as he originally thought. Even after realizing this though, he is still overcome with sorrow which shows how his values are the same since he still cares about the people of Maycomb. With the…

Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s greatest invention; a masterpiece full of colour and vitality. All of Shakespeare’s female characters provide vivid contrast to Cleopatra. Juliet, the young naïve girl and Lady Macbeth the powerful figure, are no match for the engaging and intoxicating Cleopatra. Juliet and Lady Macbeth seem to affect little control over their destiny but Cleopatra clearly asserts power over her own fate. She is so much the consummate actress that it is extremely difficult to define…