Venial sin

Although Puritans and modern Americans both exhibit paranoia, they deal with their fears differently. Whether it is suicide bombers, disease breakouts, or simply going to Hell, both Puritans and Americans have reasons to be afraid. Jonathan Edwards preached to his congregation about the consequences of sinning and not pleasing God. Edwards ask the congregation to “consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that…

around how human nature ties in with sin. They took place in the seventeenth to nineteenth century, back when the puritan migration to New England took place. These three pieces of literature are largely based around the Puritan way of life and theological principle: that humanity is inherently evil, meaning human nature is inclined to commit wrongdoing. Sin is defined as an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God’s will. However, all the sins represent human…

When someone sins, they have to go through several consequences other than just the fact of living with what they have done. In the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, several characters sin and the consequences they have to suffer because of this are awful but deserving. You have to be able to accept your sin in order to get rid of some of the consequences such as shame and regret. Hester and Dimmesdale are two of the main characters who have sinned because they have…

Modern day adultery is often resulted in the ones having the affair being punished while the victims of the affair usually end up angry and heartbroken. In The Miller’s tale this is not quite the case. The Miller’s tale is a comical story that was made to be humorous and contains no moral. The Miller’s tale also contains characters that behave ridiculously and do not take bad situations very seriously. This tale contains several examples irony and contains an ending where good is punished…

Betrayal is a common theme in many stories and novels along with plays. One always has a motive behind betrayal which has severe consequences one repents. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, the main character, betrays one person after another. Amy tan’s novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife, a historical fiction, novel consists of a character named Winnie who’s betrayed by her own loved ones. In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Luke, the antagonists, betrays the…

Sin in the Scarlet Letter: The Use of Masks and Secrecy Vs. Open Confession “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” (Proverbs: 28) These words embody the underlying morals of The Scarlet Letter, an American novel published in 1850, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter presents the unfortunate situation of Hester Prynne, an adulteress in a Puritan community. Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge…

Roger Prynne, also known as Roger Chillingworth, is an intellectual who lives in England. He focuses most of his time studying physics. He is given the description of an aged man with unproportioned shoulders. He is married to a beautiful young woman, Hester Prynne, who is a generation younger than himself. He sends her across the seas to join the Puritan community in Boston, Massachusetts. He stays in England to finish some of his studies. Hester expects to see him again within one year. There…

are able to sin, "Humans are blessed with a conscience, Humans are rational and free, and lastly Humans are called to happiness and holiness. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty" (Ghandi), these quote represents the first that I will be talking about which is Humans are able to sin. Rajvir and many other people in this world sin, there are many sins such as lying or cheating. An example of a sin Rajvir…

through the weakness of the flesh. The law is powerless through us because it is weekend by our flesh. It cannot provide us with salvation because the flesh is weak in accordance with the law. However, Christ died and rose again to lead us away from sin and death caused by the flesh. God saw our need for a perfect savior, and he sent his own Son. Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh so that he could be a perfect savior to fully and perfectly fulfill the requirements of the law that our…

that helped aid in Hester’s transformation was when she changed the meaning of the scarlet letter to “able,” and the townspeople saw her as a kind, nice woman willing to help. I think in the last scene of the novel when Dimmesdale confesses to his sin Hester feels a sense of relief, but also sadness since he died. She knows now that the whole truth has been told by everyone, and she moves on with her…