Seven deadly sins

Name Professor Course Date Analyze and Interpretation: The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis In The Screwtape Letter, Lewis writes a satirical and epistolary text that explores the Christian theological concepts of temptation and the capability of human nature to resist satisfying greed and personal benefit. Lewis uses fictional characters such as Screwtape, a senior demon who writes a series of letters to Wormwood, his nephew and a junior tempter. These letters are instructions which pertain to…

seize the fire” (8) and “twist the sinews of thy heart” (10). Similarly, the imagery of a hell-like setting with a “furnace” and “deadly terrors” allows the reader to see a clear picture of God’s destructive work. In addition to imagery and repetition, Blake’s adverse diction helps develop the fearful tone by questioning “what the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp” (15-16). The repetition at the beginning and end of the poem allows the reader to establish a tone that is…

with sin. When we display our righteous deed, they are nothing, but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind”. This verse from the Bible says that when sin is committed it brings nothing but unsatisfactory. Throughout “the Scarlet Letter”, Hawthorne puts in many major symbols in his novel to convey a positive message to his readers, but the one overall symbol that i felt kept coming up, was the scarlet letter A. Hawthorne proves that sin can…

Anthony Galarza El-202-01 Prof. Almonte 3/10/17 Hopkins View of Nature In Hopkins first poem "God's Grandeur," he connects his faith in God by having this poem focus on the handiwork of God and how man has basically ruined that handiwork which is nature. However, this is more like condemning man for not honoring and taking care of God's gift of nature to us, and Hopkins fully surrenders at the fact that God is in control of everything, including…

innocence, or lack thereof, is explored in “Prayer Before Birth” and “Once Upon a Time”. MacNiece writes “forgive me, For the sins that in me the world shall commit” while Okara writes “There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts, but that’s gone, son”. Both poets attempt to show how innocence can be corrupted by the world. MacNiece tries to justify the sin that he will inevitably combat, crediting it to the world he lives in, while Okara believes that he could regain his…

Henry makes him aware of his beauty, it becomes his most prized attribute, and, as a consequence, it becomes his most terrifying vice. Through the novel, vanity haunts Dorian, damning his actions before they are even committed – it is his original sin. It’s what motivates all of his actions, from his wish to be young forever in the beginning of the book, to his attempt to destroy the portrait at the end. Even his altruism his driven by the desire to improve his own appearance. After being…

Abelard and Augustine: Devout Sinners and Christians Abelard and St. Augustine felt compelled to write of their mistakes and misfortunes reflective of their lives. Despite the fact they did so in efforts to confess their sins, the two differ in a multitude of ways. Some of which include their approach for convincing people religion can provide them with salvation, or their attitudes towards religion in their earlier life. St. Augustine wrote within the first century where Christianity was a…

The crucible symbolizes a trial of good and evil based on the scientific definition of measuring how pure something is. The outcome being to single out the bad people from the good. Reverend Hale acts as a guilt-ridden figure seeking redemption for his wrongdoings. He is a man of moral integrity. Who is at first naïve and misguided but later becomes distrusting of the court and realizes the court is corrupted and his beliefs shift to perceiving life as the greatest importance. Through the use…

Blake and Dahl, the Bad Boys People are born both innately good and bad. Throughout history, there are figures that one can look up to as symbols of innocence as well as symbols of evil. Literature has attempted to explain the differentiation between the two, often in a religious sense. “Genesis and Catastrophe” by Roald Dahl was written in 1962 and evaluates the birth of the infamous Adolf Hitler. In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the author ponders the difference between good and evil in god’s…

How many faces does God have? Is God evil? Does God create tragedy? Or does God only provide angels? Many people died on September 11th, 2001. Many muslims, jews, catholics and atheists died. But was it God wanting to kill thousands, or was it a man acting out of the free will that God provides all men, women and children. Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete believed that the deaths on 9/11 was different than natural deaths because there was no closure. The story about my Uncle Dan’s experience of 9/11…