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    Pardoner's Miracle Cures

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    medieval Europe, where the only hope for curing an illness was to travel distances for a possible healing. Chaucer shows the purpose of a pilgrimage as an opportunity to cleanse the body of sins. The Pardoner, one of Chaucer’s characters, sells indulgences, pardons and relics. However, he admits to having sins himself, notably, his avarice for money. Chaucer crafts a contradictory character showing that the Pardoner can be successful at his job, despite the fact that he does not practice what he…

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    impurities. However most would consider having a close-to-moral day if they 've not committed acts of lying,stealing,adultery, intentional sabotage, or any of the other "major" sins. So why do we have a set of sins we try our best to avoid committing? To claim pride, which ironically is the worst of the seven deadly sins to act upon. Tanner works as an assistant chef at a very high end restaurant. He takes his job very seriously and performs it wholeheartedly. Mackenzie has recently been…

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    Clerks Character Analysis

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    analyzed the different themes.As there was so many to choose from, I made it clearn to myself that I did not want to be like everyone else. Kevin Smith used some of these insightful scenes to capture and exaggerate a hidden meaning of the seven deadly sins. In this first scene Dante is standing behind the desk at his job of a store clerk. A customer presumes in asking…

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    Lao Tzu's Analysis

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    These deadly sins represent Dante’s version of excess love. When one synthesizes all of Dante’s loves, one finds that Dante’s ideas agree with Aristotle’s and Lao Tzu’s. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, lust, and love seem to be completely unrelated and opposites; however, Dante argues that all seven of them are related and stem from love; however, some lack love, while others exceed love as previously discussed. Dante’s true summum bonum, love, is found when all seven of the deadly sins…

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    the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and Christian Bible, Dante did organize an accurate hell even though the work was done seven hundred years ago. Dante’s writing is heavily relied on the Christian Bible. Many sins are not just…

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    deconstructionist approach, it becomes apparent that the father and the two sons represent numerous deadly sins. Although one may write this paper using just one of the two approaches as state above, it is only together that it can reach full fruition. Psychoanalytical approach will allow focus on the mental states of each of the characters. As one may imagine, this is of utmost importance when discussing a person’s sins. On the other hand, deconstructionist approach allows for “that any…

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    points out several times of his laughter and how loud his voice and laughter is; this proves the Husband wrong. This short story’s final motif is of the underlying side of religion or of a greater power. The first sign of this hidden motif is the sins. The first being suicide or wrath “she went in and swallowed all of the pills and capsules in the medicine chest and washed them down with a bottle of…

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    Christianity advocates many ideals, however, very few gather as much attention as the seven deadly sins. While the sins provide different battles for every individual, Chris McCandless transformed pride from a deadly sin to a very literal meaning. On April 28th, 1992, Chris embarked on his great Alaskan journey only to be found dead on September 6th of the same year. In Jon Krakauer 's novel Into the Wild, we are given an inside view into Chris ' solitary journey from Emory University to the…

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    whilst seeking revenge. Hamlet takes his time and prefers to thoroughly discuss his method of murder. One of the reasons why Hamlet isn’t quick to action with the plan to kill Claudius is that he fears for the consequences in the afterlife. Murder is a sin, and if he kills his father’s murderer, his soul will be damned to Hell. He is not sure if revenge is worth eternal damnation. Hamlet has to meticulously plan out every detail, constantly on the verge of not following through with his plans…

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    are the seven deadly sins. Each one is said to send a person to Hell, where the one who committed that sin lives out their eternal punishments. At the time, pardons were bought to lessen a person’s eternal punishment in Hell by a few years. Even though the Pardoner in “The Pardoner 's Tale,” an excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, preached against these horrible sins, he does not follow his own advice and is guilty of every one of the sins. The Pardoner’s greatest guilt comes from the sin of…

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