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    man who apparently looked like him by chance. They journeyed together inside the forest. * The old man started persuading the young man to lose faith in his ancestors and the ones whom he trusted and tried to give him a staff encircled with the serpent‚ but the young man hesitated and rejected to get the staff from the old man. * They passed by Goody Cloyse‚ the ministry‚ Deacon Gookin‚ along with his wife joining the ritual. As the deeper they walk into the forest‚ the less faith the young

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    “Look like th’ innocent / flower. / But be the serpent under’t” (1.5.76-78). In other words‚ Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to seem sweet and innocent‚ but actually be evil and cruel. Using a metaphor allows the readers to analyze the scene through an abstract lense‚ rather than interpreting it as literal and concrete. The comparison of the

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    Macbeth is William Shakespeare’s shortest play but arguably the most intense in terms of actions and different human personalities. Macbeth is about a bloody rise to power and the tragic downfall of an honoured soldier - Macbeth; already a well-known warrior of his time in Scotland ‚ he receives a prophecy stating that he would be King by three witches and kills the reigning king to get to that position. His wife (Lady Macbeth)‚ being a strong force of persuasion and a culprit in the murder‚ he

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    Comparing Creation Stories

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    for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God then creates women from the man’s rib and names her “Eve”. She is convinced by a serpent that it is okay to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve eats from this tree and convinces Adam to do so as well. This resulted in God punishing them for disobeying his wishes. God states that the serpent will now have to crawl on its belly‚ that childbirth for women will be a painful experience and that men will rule over women. God then

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    When the sun god passes the blessed dead in the netherworld‚ as illustrated in the Book of Gates‚ he wakes them from their slumber‚ imbuing them with renewed life and allotting them land and time in the afterlife. In the lower register of the fifth hour‚ one of the duties performed for the blessed dead is rendered. In this scene‚ lifetimes for the blessed dead in the netherworld are measured. The twelve gods with no attributes stand in a row‚ with a hieroglyph alternating between the human figures

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    one tree in the middle of the garden. Then along comes Satan disguised as a serpent to tempt Eve‚ to commit sin against God. (Merrill‚ p.‚57) In Genesis the fall of man to sin begins…God had told Adam and Eve that they could eat of any tree but the one in the middle of “the Garden of Eden”. Eve goes into the garden to eat some fruit from trees which she was allowed to eat from. Then Satan disguised himself as a Serpent. He saw Eve in the garden‚ so he decided to tempt her with the forbidden fruit

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    as his actual father. This drives Hamlet insane. Because of this he ‚ Hamlet‚ wants to get rid of Claudius‚ his uncle. When hamlet’s father‚ in ghost form‚ was talking to Hamlet‚ he‚ Hamlet’s father‚ referred to Claudius as a serpent (1.5.40). Typically in the Bible the serpent is associated with being a deceitful creature as it is in the garden of Eden ( Genesis 3). Claudius is exactly

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    his concept of Negative Capability. It is from Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy that Keats forms the plot of Lamia (Stillinger‚ 359). A young man Lycius falls in love with the beautiful Lamia‚ whose body has been transformed from that of a serpent to that of a woman. Lamia‚ with little effort‚ convinces Lycius to flee with her to an enchanted palace‚ where they live and love happily until they decide to marry. At their marriage banquet Lamia withers and dies‚ as Apollonius‚ Lycius’ "sage" and

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    Adam and Eve Essay 2

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    chapter ends by establishing the state of primeval innocence‚ noting that the man and woman were naked and not ashamed‚ and so provides the departure point for the subsequent narrative in which wisdom is gained through disobedience at severe cost. The Serpent‚ "slyer than every beast of the field‚" tempts the woman to eat from the Tree of Knowledge‚ telling her that it will make her more like God and it will not lead to death. After some thought about the fruit’s beauty and succulence‚ and its ability

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    Stave Churches

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    What happens when two faith traditions collide in unique and groundbreaking architecture? Churches are everywhere. The buildings that shelter worshipers and become major architectural landmarks have been omnipresent in humanity for thousands of years. Throughout time many architecturally significant churches have been destroyed through war‚ misguided renovations‚ and natural disasters. During Medieval times in Norway‚ thousands of Stave churches began to appear across the country‚ but few remain

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