Rapture

“Frankenpride” Pride. Pride is something that all human beings possess, to an extent. Pride is something that we, as humans, like to shun but we still possess it due to our accomplishments and our own personal feelings about ourselves. Pride can also be the death of us, as exemplified in Mary Shelley’s landmark sci-fi horror novel, Frankenstein. This deadly pride or hubris can be found in the novel’s two central acts and the main characters of said acts. The first act gives us a look at Victor…

father Daedalus declared to Icarus that, he should not fly too high, or the sun will melt his wings, or to fly too low because the waves will tear his wings. At first, he listened to his father very attentively. However, after escaping, he felt the rapture of soaring through the skies and flew higher. Although his father, Daedalus told him not to fly too high he decided to fly above the suggested height and the wax began to melt. From flying to high, his pair of wing melted and he began to…

It is my belief that even though very similar, Ancient Greece has a broader and more vivid culture than modern day Greece. Ancient Greece has many great achievements in government, science, philosophy, and the arts that all still influence us today. Religion over the years in Greece has changed. Ancient Greece’s religion was very accustom to their daily life. People in Ancient Greece were very religious. They worshipped the gods that they believed appeared in human form, but had supernatural…

All Quiet on the Western Front gives a nineteen-year-old boy's testimony of war. Paul Bäumer enlisted in the German army on the French front in World War I. Entering the army a young German patriot, eager to fight – thanks to his teacher’s stirring speeches –, Bäumer soon realizes he knew nothing about war but clichés. In the company of his schoolmates, he faces the constant physical terror and mental damage of true war and trench warfare. Erich Maria Remarque – born Erich Paul Remarque – was…

making him produce a different reaction in himself. As a young man, naive of the what the water in the river surrounding him did, he celebrates in its mysteries. Everything in one “wonderful sunset” blinds him, and yet he takes it in in a “speechless rapture”. Later on though, he does admit that the time where he stopped noticing the “glories and charms” of the river had come. In the end, he realizes that all “the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river.” The use of compare and…

Truth has many meanings but the qualities of being a logical and relatable story can stand out to someone. In The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a novel that unfolds the truths about the Vietnam war through short stories. The Vietnam war is one of the longest war's the U.S. ever participates in which lasted from 1955-1975. Furthermore, through the narration of these stories Tim O’Brien discusses about his feelings and perspective of the war. Also O’Brien writes stories that connects…

Lord Byron perfectly stated " There is pleasure in the pathless woods,/ there is rapture in the lonely shore,/ there is society where none intrudes,/ by the deep sea, and music in its roar;/ I love not Man the less, but Nature more"(BrainyQuotes) in one of his romantic poems. His artistic expression of happiness is exactly the emotion Sarah Orne Jewett shows in "The White Heron", about a courageous young girl choosing to love nature by turning down a man's love in an era where women were not…

One possible direction to press Cavell in a theological register is to read the centering of the ordinary as an explicit critique of the messianic, that is, of discontinuous eschatological formations of redemption. Cavell’s fear that we take too much for granted about our everyday lives—in what our shared language and therefore our shared world implies—certainly lends this pressure. Any sense of uncritical or one-sided otherworldliness threatens to perpetuate the failure of not taking language…

The book will force the reader to question what they know about existence. Existence in a humanistic sense is awareness or consciousness. Consciousness is the medium of knowledge, as well as receptacle of identity and awareness. Simply put, the human consciousness is nothing more than thoughts which represent experiences. The world we live in is one of fabrication, reality twisted into subjectivity by difference in thought. Memories have a great deal of power in this fabricated world. This is a…

Science and technology: without them, it would be impossible to improve the world and sharpen life. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein occurs in a world before advanced technological developments, yet philosophy is endured. After falling in love with the nature of the sciences, Victor Frankenstein paves his own pathway of creation and creates his own being in a sickening way. This form of creation is becoming a popular research topic in today’s world, and since the science field is dramatically…