Hester is similar to Abel‚ because they are both considered victims in each of their tales of woe. Lawrence sarcastically proclaims that Hester Prynne is “Abel [and] Admirable!” Hester should not be considered the victim‚ because she has committed a sin and has betrayed her own society. By referring to Hester as Abel‚ Lawrence implies that Hawthorne incorrectly portrays Hester as the victim‚ when in reality‚ she manipulates the reader in order to gain sympathy.
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Week 5 Assignment E. Ann Gaines Ali Mid-America Christian University Biblical Concepts of Mental Health PSYC 4103 Professor J . Dozier October 23‚ 2012 Week 5 Assignment 1. Give one circumstance in which forgiveness would be a reasonable short term goal. Then give one circumstance where forgiveness would be a long term goal? Is there ever a circumstance where forgiveness might not be a goal in the counseling process? A circumstance where forgiveness would be a reasonable short term
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body‚ and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!" (James 3:4-5) A sanctified heard is congnescent in understanding the importance of the soul. The soul is the main target of battle. If you stay in sin‚ and do not put yourself back into fellowship‚ then you are not letting God have your soul. If your wish is to keep Satan away from your soul‚ then it is of vital importance that you stay in fellowship with the Lord. The sanctified heart also controls
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Conwell confidently states When you are rich you are trusted‚ and will have much more good to do with money because it is powerful. Conwell thinks that rich men are honest and that only honest men will get rich‚ but the poor are being punished for their sins therefore they should not be helped. Throughout his speech there have are arguments I could agree and disagree on. Conwell says that poor men are given many opportunities to get rich. In the text it states‚ “..I know I am right; that the men and women
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and torment. Mirroring Dante Alighieri’s concept of symbolic retribution‚ sinners are afflicted by the chief sins they committed. Within my version of hell‚ more attention is given to the common suffering sinners experience on their journey to their individualized punishment based on whether they committed sins of thoughts or actions‚ thus helping underscore the idea that no matter the sin committed‚ they all sinned against their Creator and deserve to travel down a common path of pain and despair
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why souls are put there based on Dante’s Christian view of their sins. There are people suffering in the cores of Hell due to lust‚ adultery‚ suicide‚ gluttony‚ greed‚ etc. Souls suffer as they grieve their contrapasso punishment for the atrocities they have done while in their bodies on Earth. They have been traitors to the word of God and now they are destined to spend their eternities in Hell where they constantly remember the sins they have caused against the bible‚ Christ and God. Though there
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placed into similar groups‚ each according to their sins. The Inferno makes a clear illustration of a “perfect” hell with respect to the absolute culmination of justice‚ which is all based on Christian perspective. This means that the higher the type of disobedience towards the Supreme Being then the higher the rate of punishments among the individuals. In conclusion‚ hell is seen as the mechanism used by God as a punishment of individuals who sin against
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the most prevalent post-war novelists who gave Englishnovel the spiritual heights. Thus he has been classified as a modern spiritualwriter and a great literary giant. [1] As a Catholic writer‚ Greene’s artof letters cruciallydeal with the subjects of sin and spiritualityvia different themes like man’s relationship with himself‚ with society and with God. Greene‚in his novels emphatically deals with the ideology that only faith in God can save man from destruction. His conceptions are very central to
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Catherine Craven GHUM200‚ Tu/Th 12:25 October 23rd‚ 2012 Compare the relationship between Virgil and Dante in Inferno with Sigmund Freud’s discussion of the conscience or super-ego in Civilization and Its Discontents. How does Freud explain and characterize the relationship between super-ego and ego in the individual? Cite examples of the interaction between Virgil and Dante and compare closely with Freud’s discussion of the psychical agencies‚ super-ego and ego: To what extent does the dynamic
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The Divine Command Theory is a meta-ethical theory which proposes that an action’s status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. The theory asserts that what is moral is determined by what god commands‚ and that to be moral is to follow his commands. As a Christians‚ I believe that my people use divine command theory approach rather than egoism or act or rule utilitarianism as a basis of the ethical systems. In Christianity‚ Judaism and Islam‚ good and bad are seen as being
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