Analysis Of Dillard's 'Holy The Firm'
Purpose
Dillard writes this book both to reflect on her life and the life of other people, whose life is drowned with confusion in their relationship with God. Dillard constantly asks herself the question, which the intended audiences might also often ask, why didn’t God do anything to eliminate the tragedies and make a world in accordance to the kind of perfect world where peace and comfortness pervade? The purpose, then, is to answer these questions through the life story of a moth and Julie Norwich: although they all suffer from unbearable pains without apparent and justifiable reasons, what they are experiencing are all planned by the Christ’s will. The ultimate meaning and purpose of their suffering is that they can experience life in a realm that transcends the materialistic and secular world and eventually purify their spirits. Dillard expects the audiences to continue loving God despite all the seemingly purposeless sufferings that God put them through.
According to Dillard, “Eternity sockets twice into time and space curves, bound and bound by idea. Matter and spirit are of a piece but distinguishable; God has a stake guaranteed in all the world. And the universe is real and not a dream, not a manufacture of the senses; subject may know object, knowledge may proceed, and Holy the Firm is
Dillard writes this book both to reflect on her life and the life of other people, whose life is drowned with confusion in their relationship with God. Dillard constantly asks herself the question, which the intended audiences might also often ask, why didn’t God do anything to eliminate the tragedies and make a world in accordance to the kind of perfect world where peace and comfortness pervade? The purpose, then, is to answer these questions through the life story of a moth and Julie Norwich: although they all suffer from unbearable pains without apparent and justifiable reasons, what they are experiencing are all planned by the Christ’s will. The ultimate meaning and purpose of their suffering is that they can experience life in a realm that transcends the materialistic and secular world and eventually purify their spirits. Dillard expects the audiences to continue loving God despite all the seemingly purposeless sufferings that God put them through.
According to Dillard, “Eternity sockets twice into time and space curves, bound and bound by idea. Matter and spirit are of a piece but distinguishable; God has a stake guaranteed in all the world. And the universe is real and not a dream, not a manufacture of the senses; subject may know object, knowledge may proceed, and Holy the Firm is