Rapture

No matter if her mother is against Darcy and Elizabeth being together or approving of it, Elizabeth is certain that “her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit to her sense, and she could no more bear that Mr. Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation.” Austen’s use of strong diction such as “violently delighted” and “vehemence” reiterates Lizzy’s opinion of her mother’s strong-minded character. Furthermore, either reaction will…

Topic: What are the Buddhist Concepts of the Afterlife? Word Count: 907 Afterlife is a concept seen differently by many religions and cultures, ranging from believing in Buddhism, where after death you come back into another body to believing in Christianity, where you come across judgement to see whether you get sent to Heaven or Hell. Nobody can confirm what happens in Afterlife, the only people who know are the ones who have died and they do not have a way to tell us. There have been many…

taught to believe is that Christ will just simply come to earth, judge people for whatever their lives are based on or how they have lived, then establish what they will know as the new heaven and the new earth. For these people there will be no rapture at all, they will just be caught up with God in the air, mentioned in “1 Thessalonians 4:17, “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always…

has been under the watchful eye of Christians and Non-Christians alike in search of Biblical parallels. There are the more obvious parallels: Aslan’s death on the Stone Table in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe/Jesus’ death on the cross, the Rapture/the end of Old Narnia in The Last Battle, and the two creation stories found in Genesis/The Magician’s Nephew. However, there are far more subtle Biblical parallels that Lewis himself might not even have realized that he had written. One of…

The novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima, focuses on the story of Ryuji. Ryuji, a young naive Japanese male, believes in glory being obtained at sea. Yet nevertheless he falls in love with Fusako, a lady of the shore. Fusako's son, Nuboru and his gang, reject the adult world as sentimental and hypocritical, preferring to believe in objectivity. Noboru and Fusako's ideals remain unchanged throughout the novel. The novel is divided into winter and summer,…

Voltaire’s magnum opus, Candide: All for the Best, also simply known as Candide, utilises the techniques of satire, imagery, symbolism and characterisation to convey some of the perils of the Age of Enlightenment through the thematic exploration of religion, war, optimism and philosophical speculation. Voltaire positions the reader to recognise the insincerity incumbent in organised religion as well as the futility of war at that time. He also positions the reader to comprehend the folly of…

Mind Games What separates human beings from most of the living world is the ability to be free thinking individuals, to which one can communicate and connect their thoughts to the everyday world. Even though humans may take this gift for granted, it is only when the ability begins to diminish that one seems to understand how crucial it is really is to everyday life. Although, even while losing this gift, the individual may not even know it, for the reality one creates is only visible to that…

Love is often represented in romance films and literature as an everlasting adoration that never falters nor fades. However, Shakespeare suggests the fickle nature of love in his comedy Twelfth Night as numerous characters fall in and out of love, and experience its euphoria and misery. For instance, the lovesick Duke Orsino experiences the elation of love, yet also the loneliness of rejection; Lady Olivia instantly goes from loving grief to pursuing Cesario; and Orsino renounces his love for…

It has been said that in the beginning there was God, a creator of all including heaven, earth, and all its inhabitants. Humanity made in the likeness or image of God was given reign over the earth and life. A reciprocal relationship between God and mankind existed, both bound and in need of each other. Sin brought about separation between God and humanity. Various religions including Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity seek a way to bridge the distance between God and mankind…

(Mill 2017,p11) attempts to reply to misconceptions about utilitarianism, and thereby delineate the theory. (Mill 2017, p12) observes that many people misunderstand utilitarianism by interpreting utility as in opposition to pleasure. In reality, a utility is defined as pleasure itself, and the absence of pain. Thus another name for utility is the Greatest Happiness Principle. This principle holds that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to…