The Satanic Verses

According to researchers at Art history, Romanticism last about 40 years. It began in the early 1800’s until somewhere around the 1840’s. During the Romanticism, people wanted something different. People wanted a strong emotion, they wanted imagination. The romanticist didn’t want to continue to write the same basic things. They wanted to express themselves not thinking about what society considered correct. The two novels that I will be comparing are "Young Goodman Brown" along with "Rip…

Since Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the Ayatollah for his book, “The Satanic Verses.” I have been intrigued on how anyone could write something and have such a large group of people want you dead. The last 10 years has shown us how radical Islam is showing how cruel and brutal they can be with no compromise. In 1993, the judges for the “Booker of Bookers panel explicitly singled out Midnight’s Children for novelty of content and the three judges agreed that Rushdie's...stood above the…

comes in many different forms but the goal is always the same: a rejection of God and His sovereignty over His creation. As we have the genuine, we also have the counterfeit. As we have the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we also have a satanic trinity: Satan, Antichrist and False Prophet. As the Holy Spirit today works power and miracles on behalf of Jesus Christ, so too it will be with the False Prophet, who will work power and miracles on behalf of the Antichrist. This is…

Antichrist is, especially to the saints living at the time of the Mark of the Beast. Contextually, it is clear from this passage that the Antichrist has already reached the place where Satan has come down to earth and is possessing the Antichrist (verse 1). The False Prophet is present displaying signs and wonders, and the image of the beast is created to make sure people are worshipping the image of the Antichrist as a god. It is very doubtful this could be happening before the Antichrist makes…

literally. “But, Because of immoralities you must marry…” sets off the whole chapter. This chapter is on the teaching of marriage, yet again Paul states, because of your immoralities you must marry, we will get to this talk on Paul and marriage. Verses 1-7 talk on the sexual relation in marriage. In the second century A.D. Gnostics said, and took the position that the spirit alone is all that matters: what one did with the body is unimportant; others said the body must be treated ascetically.…

Just as how Foster proved his claim that every literary piece is a spinoff of Shakespeare’s works in Chapter 6, Foster shows how every literary work has biblical allusions by showing how biblical allusions are utilized for different purposes. He continues this claim by connecting poetry, modern texts, postmodern texts, plays, nonreligious texts and many more to the Bible. He proves this by providing examples such as a scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) where the characters view four white…

Take Me to Church In Nathaniel’s Hawthorn’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, directs us that Hawthorn intended this to be an allegory. When pulling out and emphasizing on the main ideas, American religion and hypocrisy is pulled out. Behind this idea, curiosity plays a major role in Goodman’s actions which is followed by the effects and Goodman’s mental state. I believe this is an absolute perfect example of psychological explotation of paranoia that is exposed by the usage of symbolism,…

The genre of metal and its subgenres (such as metalcore, thrash, deathcore, etc.) have obtained a bad reputation in the eye of the public. From a first listen, the screamed vocals and heavy guitar riffs, many people just to the conclusion that the music is evil and the lyrics contain messages of devil-worshiping. This isn’t not completely a true statement, as there are many bands in the modern metal scene that are considered “Christian bands”. What I mean when I use this term, is basically the…

Throughout The Bible, passages describe the character of The Antichrist using both direct prophetic allusions and types (typology). Within all these passages, certain themes are discovered again and again. The composite picture paints a fairly simple-minded yet predetermined individual, driven by an insatiable desire for self-elevation and praise. Like Lucifer before him, this obsession will cause The Antichrist to proclaim himself as God’s co-equal, if not higher. Lucifer’s proclamation is…

went after that night. Like the fall of a great empire, the relationship “fell” as quickly as the temperature would drop when you entered hell. Then he says “we lost our heads for the last time,” which means that the relationship is over. The last verse gives the impression that she introduced the drug to him when Skiba says, “Now I can’t dream since I quit sleeping and I haven’t slept since I met you.” He cannot sleep due to the coke and that started when he met her. He then refers to both…