Seven deadly sins

The Merchant of Venice, written around 1594, was, continues to be, and always will be a highly discussed book in many academic communities. It is known to many as a play but for those who have studied it, the book is a political statement. It’s a revolutionary work meant to influence the minds of thousands. But what opinion was Shakespeare trying to plant in the minds of those who would experience his writing first hand? Could it have been one of anti-Semitism like many believe? Was he possibly…

Marilyn Manson once said “All the seven deadly sins are man’s nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust” say that all people can hide these thought of being greedy, hate and lust but some are better at hiding this but when it moment s a solitude from the world being greedy, hateful and craving the lust can show more than usual. This quote supporting the thought of Golding idea shown through Lord of flies. In the book Lord of the Flies the thought of power, no enforcement of rules and a…

and He is a just God who can give and take away (14-19). This acknowledgement and understanding gives her comfort and she recognizes the worthlessness and vanity of earthly wealth (54). As a Puritan, Bradstreet, believes vanity is one of the seven deadly sins and becomes self-critical of her fleshly desires asking: “And did thy wealth on earth abide / Didst fix thy hope on mold’ring dust/ The arm of flesh didst make thy trust” (38-40). Her loss increases her understanding of the emptiness and…

Lust Punished by foxes There are many odd things that happen in this story. It is also very different from other things that we have read in the past. The other fox spirits were handled and treated very differently than the one here. This story is about a man that collects aphrodisiacs as a hobby (Songling, 356-58). There are three characters in this story, four if you count the fox spirit (Songling, 356-58). The characters in this story are the wife, the husband, and the husbands friend…

villainy. As enlightened animals, humans set out to reject natural tendencies and live without sin. In Steinbeck’s magnum opus, Cathy is a humanoid symbol for predestined immorality and devilish values. She is the embodiment of divine rejection and a representation of the seven cardinal sins: pride, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy, lust, and wrath (Catholic Church 1866). By committing the most mortal sins, Cathy is fated to represent all that we should not be and the worst of God’s fallen humanity.…

novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the nature of sin and it’s effects on those who commit it. Although at the beginning of the book, it is made known that the main sin that the story revolves around is adultery, Hawthorne explains the true sins of each of the characters, which slightly disagree with the Puritan’s views on sin. During the time period when the story takes place, Puritans believed that all sin is equally evil and should be punished, however Hawthorne makes it…

making a profit, as they built up their fortunes. The book detailed the exploits and decision that built up their fortunes, as well as the social advantages that help push them to success. As their fortunes grew so did their temptations to give into sin. The temptation of pride, lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony, sloth only grew as they became complacent with their fortunes. H.L. Hunt was a prideful man, much too prideful. He viewed himself as far above the rest of humanity, his fortune gave…

suspicious to him. Elizabeth kicked out a girl, suspected to be in late teens, after finding out that John had committed adultery with her. John has tried to make amends, but has been unsuccessful. While John has made a grave error in committing this sin, he is still a good man because of how he tries to fix and get back what has been lost.…

of their sins. Achilles, Brutus, and Attila the Hun are a few of the well-known figures mentioned during Dante's journey through Hell. The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a compiled collection of the tales of 29 people embarking on a pilgrimage. One of the people, the Wife of Bath, is purposely made to stand out during the General Prologue. During both the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, there are characters that would have a place in Dante’s Inferno because of the sins they…

“Greed in the end fails even the greedy,” says Cathryn Louis. Kino was very greedy about the pearl which lead to everything he loved to fall apart.In the folktale, “The Pearl,” by John Steinbeck there is a lot of materialism and greed will lead to immoral behavior. In the folktale, the protagonist, Kino, finds a pearl to help his family to try to get out of poverty. In the end, the characters in the story have so much greed that it completely destroys the family. Steinbeck uses the pearl a sa…