Sin City

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, sin and repentance are recurring topics, depicted in the novel’s three main characters. Each can be accused of immorality, and each suffers differently as a result of their offenses, however, only one individual clearly repents of his sins. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the theme of sin and repentance is apparent in the characters of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale. During the entirety of the novel,…

The promised one must be human, a perfect human, and also God at the same time. Only a perfect human could die for human sins, and only an eternal God can provide eternal forgiveness of sin. For that reason, the virgin birth was necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Savior-man. Ryrie speaks of this saying, “Matthew carefully guarded the fact of the Virgin Birth in the genealogical table of our Lord…

Introduction Repentance and forgiveness are not only crucial aspects of coming closer to Christ but are also crucial aspects in coming closer together as a family. However, the world often views forgiveness as a weakness, or an inhibitor in progression, as it encourages more mistakes in marriages. Yet according to the doctrine of Christ, both repentance and forgiveness are required to be able to form a healthy relationship with our Heavenly Father and also a healthy relationship with others.…

find and exploit others’ fears and secrets. This is just what happens in Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit. Estelle, Garcin, and Inez, the protagonists of the play, have all died and gone to Hell. They expect the faceless torturers and punishment for their sins, but they soon discover they’re to be each other’s torturers. Through their actions, Garcin, Estelle, and Inez prove to be prime examples of how people can be Hell personified. Inez arrives hell because she caused her cousin’s death to…

Villains that are portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays are usually shallow, confident men who feel no remorse for their actions. These criteria initially apply to Claudius, the main antagonist in Hamlet, as he delivers his “inaugural” speech honoring Old Hamlet. But after watching a play, made by Hamlet, which accurately depicts how he had murdered his brother, Claudius falls into a deeply conflicted state of mind where he questions the morality of his actions. In the soliloquy that follows the play…

quick to forgive and does forgive but only when we ask for it. God wanted to be the God of his people and to have his people love him so bad that he created a way for those who sinned or disobeyed him to come back to him in the way of the sacrifice sin the ark and altars. What was so simple to do was the thing that cost Saul his very life on a short term and long term range. Saul and nobody today, I think really see the long terms effects of disobedience in their lives. Disobedience have…

quotes shows that Augustine enjoyed the sinful pleasure of stealing. "The cruelty of powerful people aims to arouse fear" (Book 2, section 13). Augustine describes the pressure to please others when they may want to commit bad things that he knows as sins. Pressure given to him by humans eventually consumed him, causing him to please his peers by participating in theft. For this reason, had Augustine been alone he would not have stolen the…

The laws and ideas in Hammurabi’s law Code and the Ten Commandments created good communities in the ancient world because they laid out the rights and wrongs dealing with actual problems, this is true for both the Hammurabi’s code and the Ten Commandments. Both of these laws were written in stone and persons from the significant eras lived by them and held them close to their morals and beliefs. The Hammurabi’s Law Code had the biggest impact on communities than the Ten Commandments and that can…

You should never judge a book by it’s cover, was a saying that was forenamed during childhood. It is thought that your physical appearance is the first thought that people will think and will judge you on it. In the poem “Oh Who is That Young Sinner?” by A.E. Housman, the author is watching someone get arrested for the color of his hair. He uses the sarcastic tone of the poem to show how deranged it is to judge a person for who they are. Next he uses the tone of feeling remorseful to represent…

Miller) Proctor, knowing he confessed while following the system and unlike the others had true faith by being in denial as a true Christian would, would not die honorably. But if he is hanged, he would be viewed as a saint, which is hypocrisy and a sin to him. “Let them that never lied die now to keep their souls”. (138, Miller) “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (144-145, Miller) The soul is their spiritual goodness. What Proctor represents is that although those who had been…