Rapture

The Gothic short story is a literary genre that although brief, is thought provoking. It is a genre characterized by several conventions including a simultaneous attraction, yet repulsion to a particular thing, the magnification of a given element as well as an archetypal setting such as an abandoned church or a monastery. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses several of these conventions and presents the reader with Aylmer, a man of science who forms an obsession…

made a way of escape for this sin when he died on the cross and rose from the dead. Although Christ has provided a way of escape, we cannot experience complete freedom from sin until we are joined with Christ either by dying physically or when the rapture comes. We are able to choose not to sin, but the effects of sin will still affect us whether that is through our personal sin, sin of others, or medical conditions. For this reasons, Christians still go through a lot of struggles with sin.…

The famous Russian writer Boris Pasternak ever said, “Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life.” Like a coin always having two sides, the problem of life and death always interact with each other. In the 1925 published novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf points out that the view of life and death is rooted in individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they…

Frederick Keonig once said, “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have” (http://www.positivityblog.com). He is trying to tell us that happiness is simple, and it comes from the recognition and appreciation of life. However, different people also have their own point of view of defining happiness, so it might not be easy to tell if a person is really happy or not. In Mystics, Mavericks,…

The son warns his father, “I have to watch you all the time” (39). When the father promises to take food, but later refuses it to give to the boy, the son urges, “If you break little promises, you’ll break big ones”(39) Without it being presented in the narration, conversation between the two alludes to man’s promise to not leave him alone in the world. The boy is basically saying the man may not keep that promise either, thus foreshadowing to the end of the story when the father dies and leaves…

before he plans to rape Lolita in her sleep he cries: ‘I should have known (by the signs made to me by something in Lolita – the real child Lolita or some haggard angel behind her back) that nothing but pain and horror would result from the expected rapture.’4 But then in the next paragraph he goes on by describing his ‘translucent…

a.2.3.1 Conscience The discussion of conscience and synderesis are to be found in his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book II, distinction 39. For Bonaventure, the same is true with Aquinas conscience resides particularly in man’s rational faculty for this establish a relation to man’s performance of his action and that makes it a part of practical reason. This according to Bonaventure is divided into two parts, first, part seems to be a power for discovering the truth of very…

At 10 years old, my sisters and I were taken away from our mom. We then isolated and were sent to other relatives as opposed to going to foster care. My grandma took me in on my mom's side. She was a piano player, a minister, and as a result of her I learned of Beethoven and every single other sort of music. It was at ten years old that my adoration for music happened. I played each melody I could discover about having a broken heart, depression, absolution, meanings of adoration and family,…

have life-changing powers. And due to Mathilde having these materialistic beliefs she changes her life drastically in one night. She does this by borrowing an expensive diamond necklace from her friend and wearing it to a ball. Mathilde enjoys the rapture and joy of the night floating on the success of her debut. But at last, she brought back to reality when she realizes she has lost her friend’s necklace. From that moment on Mathilde’s life is change immensely and what once was peaceful is turn…

“But hardly had he succeeded in regaining a straight face than he glanced again, as if involuntarily, at Razumikhin, and broke down once more: the smothered laughter burst out all the more uncontrollably for the powerful restraint he had put on it before” (Dostoevsky 210). In an attempt to maintain his facade of an innocent man, Raskolnikov intentionally laughs at Razumikhin as they approach Porfiry’s door. Fearful that Porfiry will deceive him, Raskolnikov presents himself as a carefree man to…