The New Testament is the second part of the Christian Bible chronicling the life and teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and his disciples. The Bible claims Jesus was the son of God, born to the virgin Mary. Jesus performed miracles that fed the hungry and healed the sick, teaching his followers to love thy neighbor and enemy, guidelines of pacifism, forgiveness, charity, renunciation of earthly posessions and humility. Jesus was crucified by the Romans and, after three days in the tomb, was resurrected.
In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Helen Burns symbolizes the life and mind of Christ in order to help Jane deal with the cruelty she has faced in her childhood and how to make herself happier when dealing with her future fate Helen is often reprimanded for various things by the teachers in Lowood and receives the brunt end of the wrath of some of the more vicious teachers such as Mrs Scatcherd Whereas Christ died for the sins of the world Helen often takes the punishment for the rest of the girl
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
The role of the witches in Shakespeares Macbeth Macbeth was the last of William Shakespeares four great tragedies and was considered his darkest work He was born in 1564 and Macbeth was written and set in Scotland 1606 and is still credible four hundred years on The renaissance audience was hooked by a plot of treachery in which the main character Macbeth succumbs to temptation and manipulation that eventually destroys his life The play is based on fact and it is true that at the time in which
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND There are few superficial similarities between The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find The true similarities between them are really beneath the surface and at once more profound These similarities however are fiercely debated among OConnors critics as most disagree with her that the Misfit is the good man in her parable McDermott J V 2010 It is only by considering that OConnor saw the world through a prism of Christi
58 000 American lives were lost in the muggy jungle hell of Vietnam Mere children thrown into the rage of war expected to be strong to be men to be able to deal with the death and destruction were humping their way through the shrapnel and land mines for a cause even they werent entirely sure of Tim OBrien writes of such horrors in his short story The Things They Carried Through the things the soldiers carried OBrien tells a riveting tale of horror destruction duty and a shred of hope in a very
Dishonor is demolishing ones pride and failure to fulfill ones duty is a form of dishonor Socrates who had a god given duty was chastised and eventually killed for his unintentional masterwork His alternatives to save himself could only bring dishonor to himself and humiliation to his followers Staying true to the identity one is given is above all because nothing is worth the dishonor and letting down the believers His legacy leads generations to come to stay true to their selves and trust in
The Da Vinci Code is a murder mystery set in modern times but its intrigue for many people has been its historical claims about Jesus and Mary Magdalene I wont summarize the entire plot here as it is familiar to nearly everyonethere are only six people in the English speaking world who have not read the bookand in any event there are numerous books written about it What Im interested in here is the portrayal specifically of Mary Magdalene which for many readers is the books most captivating fea