...Joseph Campbell's The Hero Cycle from The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Plato’s “Parable of the Cave” are both written pieces that are made to explain the common journey characters go on to gain knowledge and become enlightened and the importance of their transformation on their quest. Joseph Campbell's theory is that there are certain steps all characters must take before gaining the title of Hero and the prize of enlightenment and knowledge. These steps consist of separation, initiation, and return. Separation is either deliberately or involuntarily leaving one known condition and ending up in an unfamiliar condition, initiation is encountering trials or villains, and return is the result of being shaped by this experience, and coming out...
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...The Parables of Luke 10-16 In Luke chapters 10-16, there are many stories that share common characteristics that help to classify them as parables. Perhaps the most common trait is the headings. In most Bibles, there are usually headings that show what the next section of scripture will address. Many of the parables in these chapters have the word “parable” in their preceding heading. However, just because the heading for a passage does not contain the word “parable,” that does not necessarily mean the passage is not a parable. Another common quality found in parables is that there is a lesson contained in them. Every single one of the parables that Jesus told had a lesson that was either clearly stated or implied. The lesson was not only...
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...Daphne Schroeder Reflective Statement: Perfume by Patrick Suskind An interactive oral presentation, focusing on allegory, parable, and pastiche in Perfume by Patrick Suskind demonstrated how these elements contribute to the development of the novel. The purpose of allegories throughout the book is so that Suskind can provoke an emotional response from the reader. He puts hidden meanings in the novel to incorporate his personal views into the novel. Suskind uses Grenouille as a parallel to himself when he makes comments in a tone resembles Grenouille. On page 177, Suskind gives a long description of a beautiful women, but in the last sentence, he describes, “-her teeth like pearls and limbs smooth as ivory-and all those idiotic comparisons.” Even though the narrator is omniscient, his remarks are similar to Grenouille's apathy toward physical beauty. The next topic discussed was parable; a short, simple story, illustrating a lesson to be learned. Often Suskind intertwined parables to stray away from focusing on Grenouille so as to create a narrative distance. Often times creating a background for his next victim, or the epilogue to their life after Grenouille had left it. No real lesson was learned by his victims, and that's the point Suskind is trying to make to the audience. By juxtaposing traditional lessons learned with Grenouille's utter apathy, Suskind presents a conflict with a man against his society. Although rare, at some points in the novel, Grenouille...
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...Summary The fall of mankind to sin forced God to send him to the world. However, God was too kind and sent his own son, Jesus, to the world to save man and ensure he will still be guaranteed internal life after physical death. Therefore, Jesus came to the world to fulfill a well planned mission of saving man through extensive biblically based teachings. This was challenging and consequently, it was inevitable to deploy different techniques targeting at ensuring the teachings are tailored towards fitting mans life hear in the earthly world. Throughout the New Testament and the Old Testament, Jesus deployed methods such parables and sermons to ensure his teachings could be related to the world. It is important to realize that most teachings were tailored towards ensuring the fallen mankind transforms his behavior. To achieve this, Jesus relied more on parables and Sermons to emphasize on his teachings. In particular, the sermon in the mountain is considered as the core of Christianity life. It took place early in Jesus live immediately after being baptized by John the Baptist. The crowds followed him and climbed at the mountain and started giving the sermon. The teachings targeted at guiding Christians on various aspects affecting them. It also provided an opportunity for Jesus to teach the crowds how to pray. Most of the teachings presented are popular to most Christians today. Most of the teachings are extremely relevant to Christianity lives today. Though various weaknesses...
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...GALO ORTIZ ENG :101 SPRING 2014 The parable of sower The parable of sower by Octavia Butler published in 1993 is a novel that reflects different types of problems in the society in a nearly future such as: race, religion, politics, sexuality and violence. The author uses different examples trough the novel in order to show all those problems. The parable of sower begins in Robledo few miles from California in July 2024 to 2027 in this period of time many things happened to Lauren lives’ who suffered a rarely syndrome called hyper empathy which is the ability to feel the perceived pain and other sensations of other people. There are some people involved as characters for the development of novel. Lauren the narrator describes step by step all the adversities that she suffered over the years in an apocalyptic era. The novel writing as a series of journal entries by the main character Lauren Olamina, who is fifteen when the book opens .Lauren is living in a society in the United States in the year 2024 has deteriorated into State of anarchy .The police force is corrupt and other governmental services, such as fire protection and welfare are ineffective or nonexistent, only few people are able to afford certainly services because those aren’t free. It makes this neighborhood a good place for gangs and addicts because nobody does anything against them. Even though many things are happening around...
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...The first parable is the parable of the sower. The sower throws seeds and some land on the path with no soil, some on the rocky ground with little soil and some on soil that contains thorns – and those seeds all fail to become plants. But some seed landed on the good soil and that is the seed that grows. Jesus then tells them that this means the seed is the Word of God and the soil is the reaction to it. The good soil is the one who accepts it and the others are those who reject it. He then compares the Word of God to an oil lamp, it lights up a room and should not be hidden. He tells another parable, the parable of the growing seed, then he tells the parable of the mustard seed – saying that the kingdom of god is like a tiny mustard seed, but when it grows up it’s one of the biggest plants. He later explains some of the meanings of these parables to his disciples but not to the crowd of people he was preaching to. One day Jesus and his disciples were at sea and a huge storm comes, the disciples are afraid and wake Jesus up and he responds by rebuking the storm and then asking them “why are you so afraid? Have you still so little faith?” (v....
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...his essay discusses how The Minister's Black Veil, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered a part of American Romanticism. There are certain characteristics, symbols, themes and characters that make it a part of American Romanticism literature. Those characteristics and parts that make up an American Romanticism piece, those items are presented in this essay. So, in this parable, there are only a few examples of specific characteristics which make a story or piece of literature a part of American Romanticism. The typical characteristics of American Romanticism stories, are the value of feeling and intuition over reason, the value of the imagination over reality, civilization is bad Nature is good, educated sophistication is bad, youthful innocence is good, individual freedom is important,nature is the way to find God, the idea that progress is bad, also, most settings are in exotic locales or the supernatural. Some examples from the text are,However, in The Minister's Black Veil, the characteristics of American Romanticism present are, the connection to the supernatural, the belief that individual freedom is important, and the value of feelings and intuition over reason....
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...The Wolf of Wall Street: A Sermon on Luke Luke 16: 19-31 depicts Jesus telling a parable directed to those who view themselves as loftier than others. Jesus discusses two men in his story- a man named Lazarus and a rich man. One man leads a comfortable life, while the other struggles through poverty. The parable teaches us the way the men live their lives on earth will affect their lives after death. One man resides with Jesus in the kingdom of God, while the other suffers in Hades. The ultimate message of this parable is that not everyone is rewarded with the kingdom of God, but only those who follow Moses, the prophets, and him. This message is applicable in everyday life and is demonstrated in many modern day situations, such as those that arise in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Jesus’s message not only applies to the rich man and Lazarus, but to every one of us in our daily lives. To put this in perspective for younger minds, I have examined Luke 16: 19-31 in the popular movie The Wolf of Wall Street, a comedy that dramatizes life of a stockbroker who is obsessed with greed and money. In the beginning of the film, the main character, Jordan Belfort, starts a career on Wall Street and loses his job soon after on Black Monday. At this point of the movie, he is unaware of the “rules” of Wall Street, representing a character of humility, innocence, and modesty. He starts from the bottom, digging for jobs and finds one selling low value stock by deceiving his customers...
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...In the parable, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses characteristics to show American Romanticism. Throughout the parable, Hathorne continues to use symbols to create the theme. Hawthorne portrays romanticism by utilizing Mr. Hooper who chooses to wear a veil until death. The most important symbol in “The Minister’s Black Veil,” is the veil itself. The Puritan community feels uncomfortable seeing Mr. Hooper wearing the black veil, but Mr. Hooper believes everyone should wear one, thus creating American Romanticism. Throughout Hawthorne’s parable “The Minister's Black Veil,” he shows romanticism by addressing the reactions of the whole Puritan community and their concern about the wickedness of the black veil. Although the Puritan...
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...The gospel written by Luke also has a light tone when talking about the consequences of not following God’s word. The fact that a sizable portion of Luke’s gospel is explained through stories and parables, explains the light tone which is present through the entirety of the gospel. For example, in Luke 16, in the story of the rich man and Laz’arus, the rich man, realizing that he cannot save himself because it is too late for him to repent, begs Abraham to send Laz’arus to warn his five brothers of the fate which awaits them if they continue on the path they are on. Abraham in response says to the rich man, “If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead” (Luke 16:31). Due to...
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...David's trial that the narrative highlights the grace of God, His redemptive power, and the ultimate desire of God to forgive humanity despite our desire to rebel against the word of the Lord. The opening parable of this chapter tells of two men from the same city, one rich and one poor. Rather than pick from his numerous flock and cattle, the rich man decided to take the only lamb of the poor man and feed it to his guest. King David, after hearing this story, was enraged and called for the man's death. It was Nathan, however, who explained to David that "he was this man." The repetition found in the parable revolves around a theme that is repeated throughout the Bible, and in a sense, foreshadows the sacrifice of Jesus as the Lamb of God. There is also heavy emphasis on the rich man and poor man, which seems to indicate a parallel between the power of the King, which Samuel had warned would be destructive, and the victimization of the poor man (1 Samuel 8:10), and the abuse of that power against the common man. There is also a comparison between the rich man's taking of the poor man's ewe lamb and David's taking of Uriah's wife, Bathsheba. The parable given by Nathan is considered a "juridical parable," and "This, says Uriel Simon, is the way a "juridical parable" is supposed to function--it is 'a realistic story about a violation of law, related to someone who had committed a similar offence with the purpose of leading the...
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...miracles were traced to be related to the angel. The story mentions “a blind man who didn’t recover his sight, but grew three new teeth, the paralytic who didn’t get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers” (Marquez 524). These things are extraordinary and not common in the everyday world. The second characteristic of magic realism is a grounding in the phenomenal world. This talks about the presence of realistic elements in the story. According to Charters, realism is “the telling of a story in a manner that is faithful to the reader’s experience of real life, limiting events in the plot to thing that might actually happen and characters to people who might actually exist” (Charters 1743). As mentioned above, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” shows realistic characters such as the couple Pelayo and Elisenda, a sick child, Father Gonzaga, the neighbor woman, the doctor, the pilgrims, and the spectators. The setting – the time, the place (a village close to the sea), and the weather conditions (i.e. rainy weather) exist in real life. Another realistic element is the description of the angel. The angel was described as “dressed like a rag-picker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud” (Marquez...
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...In Two Wolves, in which the author in unknown tells a story about old Cherokee chief who was teaching his grandson a life lesson. He presents this story in the form of a parable in which he shares his thoughts and his analogy regarding a long fight between two wolves. This paper will review the authors ‘main arguments and will evaluate the quality of its original purpose. As described above, the main purpose for writing this parable is to present and analyze the average person’s inner fight with good vs evil. The author presents three main arguments: the evil, the good and who wins. Those three main arguments end up being his presentation and somewhat analysis of how humans have this never ending inner battle. He...
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...In Flannery O’Connor’s literary works, it is clear that titles are given with deliberate intent. According to Mary Lienard in her article From Manners to Mystery: Flannery O'Connor's Titles, O’Connor’s titles contribute to a greater understanding of the symbolic meaning of the plot and characters, reveals each story to be a sort of parable, and “combines realism with symbolism.” The use of meaningful titles is not exclusive to O’Connor; rather, it is incorporated into the works of other Southern authors, such as William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston. Lienard examines O’Connor’s story A Good Man Is Hard To Find in order to explain the significance of the title. The symbolic meaning of the title as it relates to the story itself leads to...
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...said that life is comedy to the person who thinks and tragedy to the one who feels. The chief source of the comic is the incongruous, the unexpected. We expect one thing but find another. The Parable of the Blind by William Carlos Williams (based on a painting of the same name by Pieter Brueghel the Elder) This horrible but superb painting the parable of the blind without a red in the composition shows a group of beggars leading each other diagonally downward across the canvas from one side to stumble finally into a bog where the picture and the composition ends back of which no seeing man is represented the unshaven features of the destitute with their few pitiful possessions a basin to wash in a peasant cottage is seen and a church spire the faces are raised as toward the light there is no detail extraneous to the composition one follows the others stick in hand triumphant to disaster Fundamental Types of Comedy and Tragedy Comedy of Situation – “Low Comedy” – slapstick comedy and farce Tragedy of Situation – “Low Tragedy” – the essence of melodrama; events that are exciting Comedy of Character – “High Comedy” Tragedy of Character – “High Tragedy” In low comedy and low tragedy the characters are not individuals but types. In high comedy they are individuals. Characteristics of Comedy 1. It is primarily intellectual. 2. It is detached. 3. It depends on perception...
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