The Way of a Pilgrim

American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy and overthrew authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. The American colonies were far away from Great Britain so any time they had a problem they had to find a way to solve it on their own. Britain did not pay a lot of attention to the colonists whenever they needed something and, it would take a few months for them to receive news and laws. Great Britain led many wars. The wars would cost a lot of…

having no trouble at the Slough of Dispond they are all admitted through the Wicket Gate despite Mercy's worries of not. They are assigned a conductor for the rest of the way, Great-Heart, the hero of the story. They go through the Valley of Humiliation and the Valley of the Shadow of Death without much trouble, and later find a pilgrim, Old Honest, who takes them to an Inn. There Mathew, the eldest son of Christian, married Mercy and James, another son, married a girl named Phoebe. A couple of…

In The Canterbury Tales the Pardoner is a unique character that travels the land with ill intentions. The narrator describes his appearance as “This Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax…he had bulging eyeballs... His chin no beard had harbored, nor would harbor,Smoother than ever chin was left by barber.” This character appearance is quite normal, but what really sets his character apart from the others making his unique is his mental state and his occupation. The Pardoner job is to travel the…

After the Pilgrims’ era (1620s) later came the Puritans in the 1630s. The Great Migration of Puritans began in the summer of 1630 when leader, John Winthrop believed that him and his group could “purify” the Church of England from Catholicism. Their mission was to flee to a new country so they could create a pure version of Christianity elsewhere. Winthrop brought one thousand men and women crossed the Atlantic to Massachusetts Bay and he preached a sermon on the ship Arbella, also known as the…

Identifying himself as a Pilgrim, Dante Alighieri passionately conveys his faith, hope, and love of God in his phenomenal poem, the Divina Commedia. Via his journey to the Paradise through the Inferno and Purgatory, Dante the Pilgrim inserts lots of biblical and historical references to emphasize his Christian values, moral standards, and most importantly the doctrine of justification by faith (Sola Fide). By establishing a world where dead sinners (especially the famous one in the history and…

of innocence is seen. Denise Levertov’s poem, What were they like? is about the Vietnam War where it shows that not only people can be lost in the war but the culture too. Slaughterhouse Five is written by Kurt Vonnegut and is based around Billy Pilgrim who was…

where they could govern themselves. The Puritans were committed to establish their religion from they ways they viewed God’s laws. King Charles I allowed the Puritans to begin a new colony in Massachusetts Bay in 1629. In the video The Pilgrims and The Puritans, the narrator states that Puritans built a model community in Massachusetts Bay for all the world to see. Puritans wanted everyone to live the way they did in a simple community that was constantly being surveyed…

Xuanzang’s was the most famous of all Buddhist pilgrims his goals was to go to India . Before he travel to India an older traveler gave him some advices and he said that the road to the west are very dangerous but Xuanzang’s said that he will start his journey from the west and he will not be back before he reach India even if he die he will not regret . Xuanzang’s went to the Gobi desert and it was difficult because there was no living creatures to be seen in this desert . On the other hand he…

The Blood of a Thousand Christs What Does the Conflict Between The kid and The judge Represent in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian? Ishaan Trismegistus  Good and evil is the most common form of dichotomy employed in art throughout history. Blood Meridian, however, uses more unique elements to pose a central conflict: amorality or purity and civilisation or progress. The text accomplishes this through the use of the kid and the judge, respectively. The kid is ambiguous in…

Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1478. The poem consist of multiple tales put into one actual story. Chaucer begins with an extensive prologue giving a comprehensive description of each character, then explains why the characters are brought together. The pilgrims are brought together to go visit Saint Thomas Becket in the Canterbury Cathedral. After that the host has each character tell a tale to make time go faster. All of the characters decide to tell their best tale to try and win a free meal…