Lewis’ alludes to the fall of Satan from God’s Kingdom by portraying Satan as the Oyarsa of Thulcandra. He challenges the “Old One” or God for his power and sent back to Thulcandra. Communication is shutoff from the rest of the Cosmos; hence, the Silent Planet. This allusion allows Lewis to smuggle his Christian beliefs into this story with out anyone being the wiser. This is his strongest allusion because without it he rest of the story cannot fall into
In the absence of light all shadows become, themselves unseen, mingled into one another creating a monster of darkness. In the belly of darkness sulks great power, lurking in the veins of the beast who wields it. Seethingly the muscular sayian prowled to and fro relentlessly pacing vainly hoping it will ease the anxiety. Here, his Sayian eyes see in a gray tinged sheen, clear but dull cast.
Elie Wiesel is the main character and narrator of the memoir Night, which recounts his experiences as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Through his harrowing testimony, we witness Elie's transformation from a devout and innocent young boy to a disillusioned and traumatized survivor. Elie's character can be analyzed in terms of his faith, his relationship with his father, and his internal struggles with guilt and shame. One of the defining features of Elie's character is his deep faith in God, which is challenged by the atrocities he witnesses during the Holocaust. In the early part of the memoir, Elie describes himself as a devout student of the Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical text, and aspires to become a master of Jewish theology.
“The student of Talmud, the child I was had been consumed by flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded and destroyed by a black flame,” (pg. 37). The fire was a strong symbol. The fire represented destruction to everything that came in it it's way.
During that time, people held deep fears of the unknown, demonic, and supernatural. One particular aspect of the text that may strike us as surprising, strange, and even bizarre is the belief
While Satan, “Our Father Below,” is a self-loving, deceitful father. When everyone agrees that Lewis’s style of writing is instructive. Some say Lewis wrote the book for people to understand and feel sympathy for Satan and his followers “demons”. Lewis’s style of writing makes one better equip to reorganize Satan’s subtle deceptions in three ways: it helps people recognize distractions in our thoughts, it helps people recognize distractions
I’ll start by saying I mainly agree with your statement. However, you were very vague leaving your statement with only claims and no evidence or examples. In the future I would highly suggest using examples instead of just saying “language related to death, darkness, night, and decay”. Also I found your last sentence to be repetitive and odd in the sense that you didn’t mention any of the “themes” specifically that you were referring to in the memoir Night. It appears that instead of responding to the prompt you restated the first few sentences in your own words.
In Elie Wisel’s memoir, Night, the events experienced by the protagonist and his responses to these events help to shape his identity by changing his beliefs and how he views the world. Throughout the story, Night, by Elie Wisel, he encounters conflicts that affect his religion. Questioning his faith, Elie says,“As for me, I had ceased to pray. . . . I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Wiesel 45).
Although giving in to temptation and discovering the power of the potion is amazing and “prodigal” it has negative consequences suggested by the words “Satan”. Soon after,
The 1950s were oppressive and degrading towards the culture and identity of African Americans. This principle is especially personified through the drama, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. As a black female author in this time period, she was easily able to capture the racism and forced stereotypes poignant within the lives of the minorities. Beneatha, a fictional character in the play, represents the ambitious and suppressed black female intellectual who is stripped of her identity at every turn. The men in her life are as different as black and white, and in essence that is what they are.
The eyes of Beatrice, Dante, and God are metaphorical and literal mirrors, vehicles for divine light. Through close readings of the use of mirrors, the river
Josef Mengele was a Nazi SS doctor notorious for his gruesome experiments conducted on Jewish and Roma inmates, including those involving twins in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland. Before WW2, Josef Mengele was an assistant to a well-known researcher, Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who studied twins. When the war started, Mengele relocated to Auschwitz where he had access to an unlimited supply of twins and the authority to maim and kill subjects without consequence (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Initially, Josef Mengele was not necessarily feared by children he experimented on. He was often known to appear with pockets full of candy and chocolates, to pat them on the head, to talk with them, and sometimes even to play with the kids(Rosenberg).
Gaia Creation Story The Story about Gaia is a creation story because in the story Gaia is one of the first titans. A creation myth is a narrative that explains how people first came to inhabit the earth. This titan was the personification of the earth and gave birth asexually to repopulate the rest of the earth. The story attempts to explain how the world began. The creation myth starts off with someone named Gaia, it tells the reader that she came from the abyss and was the fountain of it all, the Earth.
Edgar Allan Poe addresses the dark and gruesome side of human nature in his writing “The Black Cat”, which during that time and even now are perceived as radical ideas. This dark human nature is displayed in Poe’s writing as the narrator recalls the happenings of a most erratic event. The narrator, a pet lover with a sweet disposition, in this story succumbs to the most challenging aspects of human nature including that of addiction, anger, and perverseness. To the Christian believer, human’s sinful flesh leads people to do wrong because that is their natural tendency.
In this way the trickster is a cautionary morality tale and an instructive tool warning them not to act like him. The most central trait to the trickster figure portrayed, besides these, is the contrary use of his creative and destructive powers which speaks to the very message of ambiguity and liminality within the tradition of trickster mythology. Beyond the combination of opposite concepts, the trickster represents the chaos of all contrasting elements of the world which these tales attempt to
