Seven deadly sins

blackening church appals". By stating these, he refers to the rotten government and corrupt institutions like the church which allow child labor, prostitution, and bloody wars. In the last line, when he says "And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse." he puts his blame on the legal marriage of his day which restricts the romantic love. On the other hand, Wordsworth has an optimistic and positive view of London. Because he has lived in a countryside area and has described the natural beauty…

Sex! Damnation! Superstition! All this along with vampires. No, not Twilight. These are the ideas Stoker implicitly instills in Dracula. In Victorian England, there exists a certain ideal for women, and society as a whole, from social to religious and even political standards. For this reason, in writing Dracula, while telling of a quest to kill a dangerous monster, Stoker uses symbols, metaphors, as well as references to the Greek God Hades to tell different underlying stories: of lust, of…

Revenge and Retribution are key themes in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the outcomes of these themes are heavily influenced by Dante Alighieri’s Dante’s Inferno, an epic poem telling about the seven sins by which all humans are judged by in the afterlife. Throughout the play, the murder of family members spurs three groups to act. These groups, being those seeking revenge, those incapable of thinking for themselves, and those that ignore the need to correct immoral actions such as murder, eventually…

The theme we created for Death and the Miser is, greed comes with a price. The reason I chose this theme because, the miser keeps taking money and the more he take the more it will come back to haunt him . So the more money the miser takes the greater the temptation is to take more. Which is not good because if he take the money he goes to hell but,still has a chance to go to heaven. The two genes I chose was video games, and cartoon television show character. The reason I chose these two…

Chaucer compliments the Friar’s skill at begging as a form of critiquing the church’s greed, yet he mocks the Clerk’s material poverty to emphasize that the knowledge the Clerk seeks is of more value than money; these characters’ monetary states are meant to show the reader the misplaced values society has by showing a corrupt man with money and a honorable man without it. The Friar is “a worthy licensed beggar” who focuses on spending time with the rich who will give him money, rather than the…

When God created us as sexual beings, he wanted people to use their sexual desires to draw them closer to their spouse. However, when people fuel their sexual desires outside of marriage, the results can be harmful and serve many consequences. One example of a way people fuel their sexual desires is through masturbation, or using yourself for sexual pleasure. Many people think that masturbaing quenches a sexual “fire.” Instead, it does the opposite. It fuels the fire. Masturbating is an…

things get a lot harsher. Sinners will be plunged into a very icy lake and will be pushed deeper due to the more severity of their sin. There are four rounds in the ninth circle of Hell. The rounds are divided out into the severity of the sin that a person many have committed. The different rounds in Hell are named after different individuals who had personified the sin. The first round is named Caina, named after Cain who had killed his brother Abel in the Bible. The second round is named…

literal meaning is that Dante wakes up and finds himself in dark woods because he has strayed away from the True Way. The symbolic meaning is that Dante has strayed away from the True Way of doing good and has found himself in a Dark Wood which is sin. An allegory can be seen through the three beasts Dante meets. He meets a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. Dante describes the beasts saying “ Yet not so much but what I shook with dread at sight of the great Lion that broke upon me raging with…

Pardoner’s Tale-Literary Response The love of money is said to be the root of all evil. People will do unimaginable things for money. They will ruin other people’s lives as well as their own just to pocket cash. In Bill Taylor’s article “Understanding Money and the Meaning of Life,” it is explained how people handle their money with greed versus how they should handle their money, the right way. People get caught up with having so much money that they end up losing everything that is dearest to…

An anonymous reporter stated Ms. Gunnell has custody of the children and gained custody after obtaining a lawyer. DHS became involved with the family after the mother tested positive for meth after delivering the youngest child; Candance has a history of drug use. The reporter is concerned because Ms. Gunnell allows Candance to have unsupervised visits with the children whenever she wants to work or she's tired. Whenever Candance gets the children, she leaves them with different people and…