Truth Regarding Plague

The Truth Regarding the Unfortunate Events that Plague Society From the very beginnings of recorded history, there has been a record of tragedy that has continued as society has progressed. If we start at the beginning of time, we can see a narrative of biblical misfortune that has fallen upon societies as a whole. Some may have deserved it, but I can confidently say that a fair majority did not. For example, in the book of Numbers, the Israelites complain that all they’ve been given to eat is manna, and they’d like a better variety of food. God sends a multitude of quail, providing far more meat than they can eat, but as they gorge themselves on it they are struck by a plague. (KJV Numbers 11) I highly doubt that an entire population came

The original sin/misfortune is an Augustine Christian doctrine that says that everyone is born sinful. This means that they are born with a built-in urge to do bad things and to disobey God. It is an important doctrine within the Roman Catholic Church. The concept of Original Sin was explained in depth by St Augustine and formalized as part of Roman Catholic doctrine by the Councils of Trent in the 16th Century. (BBC) If we are to believe this, then sin/misfortune is a natural flaw in

This is well reflected in the narrative titled, “The Thing in the Forest,” by A.S. Byatt. In the story, two young girls are displaced by war. They find themselves temporarily located in a safe house in the forest. As they begin to venture out into the surrounding forests, they come across a monster. The story then goes on to describe the beast and all it causes. The monster’s resemblance to war is clearly no accident. In reality, what the monster is, is an allegory for war and the devastation left behind by war. The monster is a “depiction of the lasting effects of war and its losses. For example, the way the monster “gave the strange impression of moving in waves from the whole perimeter of the forest.” (Byatt 306) resembles a wave of troops storming into a battlefield. Moreover, the sounds the monster makes are very similar to sounds that one might familiarize with war or a battlefield. “A crunching, a crackling, a crushing, a heavy thumping, combining with threshing and thrashing,..” (Byatt 306) The monster unfortunately leaves our two protagonists in such devastation and so traumatized that it negatively affects them all the way up to their adulthood.