...What are the building blocks for a deeper spiritual relationship with God and how can we, if possible, be drawn into a mature and fully dependent loving relationship with Christ? Ashbrook says, “If we are to grow spiritually and cooperate with God fully in the process of becoming like Jesus, we must be intentional about our process of discovery, about who we are, and how we relate to God and others” (2009, p.226). Further, in this spiritual formation process, we must be intentional in our prayers, obedient in our walk, gather in community with other believers, study the Word of God, and focus on loving God. In Ashbrook’s Mansions of the Heart (2009), the spiritual transformation process is modeled by a journey through various mansions and rooms, which maps out the soul’s growth and ultimately lead to the divine and mystical...
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...sit and think about. Nor is it something we are ever truly prepared for. So in this play, when Death came knocking – Everyman was not prepared for what he was about to go through. I. Introduction II. Plot Summary III. Summary of the Allegorical Characters IV. The Author’s Understanding of Death V. Conclusion The English Play Everyman is one of the most used morality plays around. The anonymous author has really captured the meaning of death and how it can not be escaped, and it is not something we should fear. We should humbly embrace our death to meet our glorious maker. Everyman realizes that he can not pay “Death” any amount of money to give him more time on Earth. He should bravely take the journey to meet God, and accept what will be. His heavenly father is calling for him, and now he has to stand for judgement. Everyman is met in the beginning of the play by Death, whom God sends to collect Everyman. Once he learns of his journey he must take, he is told that he is allowed to bring anyone who will make the trip with him along. He meets Fellowship walking down he road, and Fellowship promises not to leave him until his dying day. He tells him he will do whatever Everyman needs. Then when he learns about the journey, he says that nothing in the world would make him take that journey and leaves. Then he meets Kindred and Cousin, whom what to help in any possible way, yet they learn of the journey and leave as well. So Everyman goes to...
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...A Hero’s Journey: Hamlet and Simba What images come to mind as you reflect on your childhood? Playgrounds, blackboards, and soccer balls may be among the warmest of memories. Yet for many mermaids swim their thoughts, princesses get swept of their feet, and lions roar to their loyal place in the animal kingdom. There is no doubt that today’s entertainment has most of its touch using classical influences. Walt Disney has produced animated films that have captured the heart and imagination of audiences of all ages around the world through the magic of storytelling and imagery. Many of us appreciate the imagination and magic that Disney puts into its animations with out knowing they are based off of classical and traditional storylines that have been around for many years. For example the Disney movie The Lion King that is based off of the classical Shakespeare play Hamlet. The Lion King is possibly the most well known movie of the Disney collection that portrays a strong moral to its viewers. The journey that is taken by the characters in this movie is one from innocence to experience through confronting challenging situations. Just how Disney uses magic and imagination to capture its audience William Shakespeare also captured the hearts of people everywhere through the representation of emotions and feeling in his plays. Hamlet is without a question one of the most famous play in English literature. Through Hamlet Shakespeare shows a brilliant depiction of the hero’s struggle...
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...interpretation of “A journey” ”A journey” is a short-story written by Colm Tóibín in 2006. I will focus on the protagonist, the character Mary, and her reliability by analysing the flashbacks. I will compare the personalities in the two texts “A journey” and “The Story of a Marriage”. The latter written by Andrew Sean Greer, 2008. I will also put the relationship between Mary and David into perspective by comparing “A journey” and the photo Interior with woman and child, Poul Mathey, 1890. The story is written from a 3rd person perspective, though the story is told from the protagonist point of view, as seen by the use of personal pronouns, such as “she” and “he”, but never “I” or “we”. As in “A journey” short-stories are often told from the protagonist point of view. In this case; Mary. She was amused by his earnestness (…). (line 6) The quote is an example that shows the reader that the story is told from Mary's point of view. In the case we are told that She was amused. Nobody would know that expect from herself and the omniscient narrator. Though the narrator is omniscient, it does not tell the reader anything about how, for example, David is thinking. He made it clear in the way he turned that he did not wish to speak to her. (line 69-70) In this case we are only told what she thinks he feels. You can say that it is a partly omniscient narrator. It is a very typical trait for short-stories, that the story is told from one angle only. The reason for this is to make the...
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...Devoted Love “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a story of an elderly woman’s rough journey. The stories themes are elicited from the symbolism of the journey as well as the encounters that this elderly women Phoenix Jackson faces. The central idea/theme of this story is that love can empower someone to over come many life-threatening obstacles. Phoenix conquers all odds to show her devoted love for her grandson; issues of race, age, and education often are shown throughout the story as well which highly influences the difficulties that Phoenix faces. An African-American woman named Phoenix Jackson lived in the 1930s during the depression. Jackson has to go through discrimination and humiliation all for the love of her grandson. All of the encounters that Phoenix Jackson faces on her journey known as the “worn path” are all examples of the how the white people treated the blacks in this era. A white hunter helps Phoenix out of a ditch after she tripped and fell in it. He says, “I know you old colored people! Wouldn’t miss going to town to see Santa Clause!” (273). He is referring to Phoenix as a colored person. Then he also taunts her and points a loaded gun at her. “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” (273). She explains that she is not scared of the gun and then he says that she must be 100 years old because nothing scares her. “Whites would often call older blacks “aunt,” “granny,” and “uncle” to as a way of denying them their dignity” (Herman). He calls her “Granny” with almost...
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...man in whose arms I want to spend all nights of my life, you are the one whose breath I want to cool my temple, in whose eyes I want to reveal all of me, to the depth of my being! You are that wonderful man around which I want to weave my dreams and desires, to dress me with his kisses, to carry me away….to love him my whole life and he to make me the happiest woman giving me every day a wonderful and inestimable “I love you”! You, the angel who I found among the people if I am not asking you to much give me a glimpses of eternity with you, I promise I wont waste it and you will remember it with pleasure even up there. I will show you how a look can hold galaxies and a heart can feel everything and maybe we can discover together how far the God went when he created a human being in the image and likeness.I have never wanted anything more than I want you. I have never loved someone as much as I love you and I have never believed in anything as much as I believe in us. There are few things in life, that you do not realize you have been missing until you get them and then you know that life will never be the same again, without them, that is exactly how I feel about you. Now that I have you I’m certain that I cannot do a single day without you, so love me, love me as much as you can and I promise to make this journey called life, that we are travelling together worth it, all I want is for you to be mine and stay mine forever. Life is full of uncertainties, one moment you are the...
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...is a lie. Tristan Thorn is just a simpleton from London, England. He soon discovers his life is not as normal as he has once thought. The brave and courageous Tristan, as well as the friends he meets along the way, travel beyond the wall of ordinary world to a land beyond the guarded wall. This story line is guided by Joseph Campbell’s study of the Monomyth Theory, the claim that nearly all myths have an abundance of similarities and the hero's journey are almost identical. The typical hero’s journey starts out in the world of the common day and his/her call to adventure. This is according to the Monomyth Theory. Trisan lives with his dad in London England. He...
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...Corbett November 2009 This is a lovely book, tender but profound. It is about the importance of seeking one’s own meaning of life and spending one’s life fulfilling it. Coelho calls it seeking one’s “Personal Legend.” It reminds me very much of what the Existentialists would have called “authenticity.” However, unlike the Existentialists who write rather darkly about this process of seeking one’s own meaning system, Coelho’s young shepherd boy is seeking his Personal Legend in something much like a fairly tale. However, Coelho at least gives us a process and set of obstacles we might well expect, and his hero fulfills all four: First one must discover that our lives are dictated by custom, family, law and tradition and we must be willing to overcome these in order to seek our own unique Personal Legend. If we get to this first stage we may well run up against love as an obstacle, particularly in believing that in order to have the love of some other we must give up our own Personal Legend and live in a way that the other needs for us. On the author’s view this is a mistaken notion of love. “You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit its because it wasn’t true love .. the love that speaks the Language of the World.” Supposing one gets past that second stage and realizes love is not incompatible with one’s Personal Legend, then one is likely to run into grave difficulties in realizing this legend and be tempted...
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...common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won" (Campbell 1). It is in this storyline that most storytellers need to go by in order to create the most closely related idea of a hero. Even though some heros do not follow these stages and their journey becomes more complex in relation to society, Shakespeare’s character Hamlet, seems to be the most hard to understand. Shakespeare created Hamlet as a hero who corrupts the archetype so much that the basic stages of his heroic journey must be changed in order to recognize him as a hero. Aristotle defined a hero as “a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle”. Aristotle simply states that the hero's downfall is usually cause by his own fault. Usually the hero’s death is seen as a waste of human potential but usually results in greater knowledge and awareness for whoever hears of the hero’s story (Aristotle). In most traditions of the hero archetype, the journey of the hero follows a path that can be split up into three different sections. The departure, initiation and return. Journalist and writer, Rob Thorp writes about these stages and how they can apply to Shakespeare. Within these three stages or acts, there are multiple sub-stages (Thorp). Hamlet’s journey doesn’t follow all...
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...myths, using a common pattern shared throughout known as the monomyth, or the hero’s journey, a sequence of actions that can be found in most stories. In fact, the structures of the monomyth outlined by Campbell are consistent with those of The Godfather: Part I, a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. By taking Michael Corleone, the main character of The Godfather, and viewing him as a hero within his world, one may be able to conclude that Coppola may have employed the ideas of Campbell. Campbell’s monomyth theory consists of 17 stages that may appear at different times along the story. Nonetheless, a story may not contain all 17 stages. The Godfather contains many elements of the monomyth, however, they are found in an unusual order. DEPARTURE The first part of the adventure of the hero, as seen in Campbell’s book, is Departure. This is the initial frail state before the hero’s transformation begins. The hero is sympathetically introduced to the audience. The hero’s situation and dilemma can already be noticed and we can see that he is living some kind of polarity which is pulling him in different directions and causing him stress. In this chapter, there are many stages that a hero must go through....
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...Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 1 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World Heather Waltman ENG125: Introduction to Literature Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 2 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World The poem I am choosing is Love Call us to the Things of this World by Richard Wilbur. This poem speaks of a man or woman who woke up from a night’s sleep. In this story I feel it is saying that no matter where life takes you one can do anything. In Wilbuer’s poem he gives us an insight into a spiritual world. He talks about how love can make you do crazy things for some one. There are all kinds of love when it comes to the spiritual part of love. This whole poem is talking about love and things that inter wind with the poem. The pulleys awake the man or women not a lot just enough for them to realize that they did not want to wake up. This is a feeling that God wanted them to know not to be scared and that he will guide them through anything and will help them as long as they want him too. God also wants them to know not to run from him. Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 3 In Wilbuer’s third section he talks about how a man or women is ready to accept what has for them...
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...The Truth Behind the Knight: The Presence of Archetypes in Sir Gawain & the Green Knight In the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we are introduced to a young man, who, like many of young men, is trying to discover himself and travel through his rite of passage. He is trying to figure out who he is in life, and while in his journey, passes through many phases that mold him into one of the great Knights of the Round Table that old King Arthur wanted to serve with him. These phases affect everyone at some point in their lives. Whether it causes someone to take an iconoclastic stand against a certain more or folkway or if it enables a person to give serious thought to what life could mean, archetypes enable any protagonist in any story to take a journey to find the treasure of their true self. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain was willing to take on the heroic quest and say yes to himself and, in doing so, became more fully alive and more effective to the knightly community and, inadvertently, the literary world. The purpose of the heroic quest is to find the gift retrieved from the journey and give the gift to help transform the kingdom, and in the process, the hero himself. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, three archetypes are present that displays the qualities of a heroic quest that leads Gawain to become a true knight in shining armor. The Innocent Hero Archetype, the Seeker Archetype, and the Lover Archetype forms the mold that Sir Gawain conforms...
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...Everyman is a morality play of a secular’s life, the play presents surprising events in one’s perception of death and is relevant to one’s faith at their time of judgment and therefore serves God’s purposes. I. INTRODUCTION: II. BODY A. Characters: 1. Messenger, God, Death: Scenes I and II 2. Death approaches Everyman, Death forces Everyman to go to his reckoning with God: Scene III 3. Everyman meets Fellowship, Kindred and Cousin, Good: Scenes IV -VI 4. Everyman talks with God, Everyman meets Good Deed, Good Deeds forsake Everyman and Good Deeds gets her sister Knowledge to go on Everyman journey, Knowledge leads Everyman to Confession: Scenes VII - X 5. a. Everyman prays to God and Mary for mercy, Good Deeds rise and walk towards Everyman to accompany on his journey, Everyman clears his reckoning, Everyman calls forth Discretion, Strength, Beauty, and his Five-wits: Scenes XI-XII b. Everyman goes to the Priest and honors the seven Sacraments and receives the sacraments, Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits deserts Everyman at the grave, Everyman has an epiphany; he understands he can take nothing with him when he dies, In the company of Knowledge and Good Deeds, Everyman commits his spirit in the hand of the Lord; an angel receives Everyman into Heaven: Scenes XI-XII 6. Relevant Character overview B. Author’s Perception of Death and the treatment of death 1. Everyman’s journey compared to Man’s journey in real life; Moral Lesson III. CONCLUSION TIME...
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...Hero's Journey" redirects here. For other uses, see The Hero's Journey (disambiguation). The twelve stages of the hero's journey monomyth following the summary by Christopher Vogler (originally compiled in 1985 as a Disney studio memo): 1. TheOrdinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting with the Mentor, 5. Crossing theThreshold to the "special world", 6. Tests, Allies and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Innermost Cave, 8. The Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. The Resurrection, 12. Return with the Elixir. In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on anadventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.[1] The concept was introduced by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), who described the basic narrative pattern as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[2] Campbell and other scholars, such as Erich Neumann, describe narratives of Gautama Buddha, Moses, and Christ in terms of the monomyth. Critics argue that the concept is too broad or general to be of much usefulness in comparative mythology. Others say that the hero's journey is only...
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...declare your praise” A blessed day to you, my fellow traveler. The Grace and Peace of the Lord be with you as we enter the third day on our journey with Jesus. I would like to welcome our brothers and sisters who are joining us on this journey throughout the District. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in very unusual ways. I have been asked and encouraged by a member who has been journeying with me to try this approach and I feel so blessed to know that so many have chosen to join this journey. Stand in Jesus and see what amazing blessing the Lord has in store for you. Hallelujah! Yes! I know what you are saying, that adapting to a new discipline can be a struggle. But Psychologists tells us, if we can believe that, that it takes approximately six weeks to change a habit. Give yourself the privilege of renewing your spirit and mind this Lenten Season. I encourage you to stay on the pathway. So we begin day three at a time specifically convenient to your schedule. Spending a minimum of 5 minutes on each segment or step below: Meditation [5 minutes of quiet reflection] Visualization See what your day will be. With conviction, declare how you want your day to unfold and your intentions toward God, his creation and other people who you will be privileged to meet today. And who will be fortunate to encounter you. Gratitude: Thankful for the good happenings in your life. Appreciate where you are NOW from where you WERE then. Inspirational Reading: Read an article about a person...
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