Venial sin

Within the two passages, written by Virginia Woolf, we can see the attitude society has toward women. Virginia clever use of diction, tone, detail, and narrative structure allows the reader to gain a general idea of it. The two passages describes two different meals, served to each gender. At a glance the reader can note a difference by the length, start, and end of each. As more of the passage are read, one can see the difference in the way each meal was conducted. The attitude of serving…

selfishness"(Martin Luther King Jr.). This quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. reveals that man has a choice to be good or evil. Each individual has the potential to display goodness but they also have the potential to give in to sin. It is up to man to fight his own inclination to sin. In Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, he delineates that evil can come from within. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow discovers that the evil that ensued in the jungle did not come from the white man, but instead,…

temporal punishment of sins already forgiven in the sacrament of penance. A plenary indulgence is not a get out of jail free card, the soul receiving the indulgence has to be truly sorry for the sins and have the desire to never fall back into sin again in other words one must be in a state of perfect contrition. When we sin there are consequences attached in the form of punishment. There are two types punishments due to our sin Temporal and Eternal. The Eternal punishment for sin is when a…

crime and spends the rest of her life trying to atone for her actions and redeem herself. Through the novel she undergoes three main actions, the false accusation, and the two main actions she undertakes to atone for her sins; joining a hospital as a nurse as penance for her sins and rewriting the history, in her book where she writes about her whole life and her quest for redemption and atonement. The novel Atonement is set in three parts, in each part Briony undertakes an action that…

waiting for the Second coming of Christ. The king will free the people as Christ will free all of the Christians from the world. Hebrew chapter 9 verse 28 informs us that,”So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” (Bible Gateway, KJV Hebrew 9:28) The Lord will come again one day for our salvation. One might ask himself, Why did Tolkien put Christian symbols into The Lord of the Rings? It is…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathanial Hawthorne, takes place during the 17th century in Boston. This Novel in its whole, is bound with nature various times. Hawthorne generously applied nature in this Novel to reflect about human Nature itself and how Nature changed it, to add imagery and compute a theme in the novel. Hawthorne also used Nature to introduce deep perception into the characters. Nature plays a significant role in the Scarlet letter. It repeats as an essential argument in the…

about homosexuality. You can argue that Paul challenges gender-role categories integral to the Priestley theological anthropology in Romans 1. Using both letters he sent to the Romans, Paul sends these letters trying to convince them that neither Jew nor Gentile has any claim to righteousness before God. Paul’s theological anthropology is that like Leviticus, in that Paul condemns the gentiles as idolatrous. Both in Paul’s letters and in Leviticus, the same language is being utilized like, the…

Evil is anything that defies good, evil is that of which is wicked and immoral and there is no shortage of evil in the stories of Boethius, Dante, and Machiavelli and evil is still very abundant in life in today's day and age. Each of these men approach how to deal with evil in very different ways from one another. From the different ways they choose to take evil on or cope with it Boethius's way of coping with evil is the best way from studying excerpts from “The consolation of Philosophy”.…

The concept of suffering is a persistent motif in Albert Camus's novel, The Plague. Camus explores this notion through two different characters, Father Paneloux, a devout Jesuit priest, and Jean Tarrou, a visitor to the town of Oran who is deeply philosophical and thoughtful regarding the workings of the world. While the subject of piety and sainthood swirl around these characters, the way these two men struggle with suffering is very telling. Indeed, while both men suffer and die, Camus…

Moving on to the character of Inspector Goole, I can finally evaluate that Priestley used him as his mouthpiece right from the beginning since he is the only impartial persona that attempts to persuade each character to accept and share their guilt for their role in Eva Smith’s suicide. He appears to be very purposeful throughout the play and he actually makes numerous statements on the issue of responsibility and social equality by stating that “we don’t live alone”. These teachings are…