The Originals

Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…

Knowledge begins the day we are born; we begin to learn how to breathe, how to eat, and how to sleep, and then later we learn how to walk, how to talk, and how to ride a bicycle. We also learn not to touch a hot stove or swim right after we eat. All this knowledge is attained so quickly in our early years. Then in our teenage years we usually begin to make more mistakes, and those mistakes begin to have bigger consequences; these lessons mold and shape our lives and future choices. In…

Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov revolves around the central idea that good cannot exist without evil because suffering is essential to salvation. Throughout the work of literature, everyone suffers, including the innocent. This concept of innocent suffering leads many people to doubt the good of the world and God; however, people, such as Ivan Karamazov, fail to realize that one cannot experience good if they do not know evil. The idea that suffering leads to salvation is developed in the…

“Eve’s Diary” and “Adams Diary” both describe the biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden and the beginning of original sin. In both stories they first two humans on Earth succumb to eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge, thus changing the world forever. However, even though basis of the narrative is the same they differ fundamentally on many levels. The main difference between the two stories is the narrator, in “Eve’s Diary” Eve describes her experience of the narrative, whereas in…

violates God’s will. And also sometimes sin could be viewed as a violation of the relationship between God and individual human being. In book one of The Confessions, Augustine starts to think about what makes human beings sin and also he seeks the original sin. “For in your sight no man is free from sin, not even a child who has lived only one day on earth.” (27) Normally, we believe that the infants or the little babies are innocent since they are naïve, and the sins are generated with the…

leaves a woman for another wife and the woman punishes him by murdering their children and the man’s new bride. The woman is struggling with her strong emotions of pride and anger but she is also guilt-ridden of her act of filicide. In Euripides’ original play, it can be interpreted that the gods eventually forgive Medea for her ruthless vengeance. Dorfman’s play is more equivocal wherein it involves the Roman Catholic tradition of a place where souls must first undergo purgation before they can…

John Rawls theory of justice as fairness is based on the original position is, the idea that equality corresponds to the state of nature. The state of nature is considered as a purely hypothetical situation characterized to lead to a certain conception of justice. If everyone was to believe in a certain form of justice it would lead to a more unified and well-constructed society. That certain conception of justice became known as the veil of ignorance. The veil of ignorance is the thought…

The Voyage The ship groaned as the waves desperately pushed at its bow. As I lay in the darkness, I could feel warmth radiate from the woman slumped over beside of me. Men were yelling above deck, but their shouts were blurred out due to the crashing waves. The sounds began to fade as my vision grew blacker, then I woke up. As soon as my eyelids shot open, I heard people screaming. I staggered up, immediately regretting the choice. The room swayed as I struggled to stay on my feet. This was…

In a dark forest, where trees lay waste and the land was ridden with darkness, there lies a castle with shattered windows and a dreary look. Black streaks ran down its bricks giving it a desolate look and ridden with a sense of malevolence. The castle rests on the precipice of a cliffside. The cliff was an insurance of death due to the long fall. At the bottom beheld jagged rocks and the thunderous sound of waves crashing against the side of the cliff. The water was black and rapid with movement…

Every day millions of people sin. In the Divine Comedy Dante travels through nine circles of Hell, observing punishments caused by different sins. The more severe the sin that is committed, the more severe the punishment is endured. Throughout history famous figures, people in literature, and current celebrities, have committed these nine different types of sin. I will be placing these wrong doers in the different circles of Hell discussed in the story. Circle zero, otherwise known as Vestibule,…