RESPONSE TO NUMBER 4 This quotation is a quote from a poem by the poet Edward Taylor. The name of the poem is a Wasp and a Silly Fly. This quote particularly talks about a wasp being caught in the web, or the trap, of a spider. The spider attempts to go eat it, but it cannot because if the spider messes with it, it will be stung by the wasp. This whole poem is an analogy comparing the humans, the flies and the wasps, and satan, or the spider. He talks about how the wasps are like the followers of god, there will be attempts by Satan in which he tries to devour their souls and bring them to hell, but the wasps', people loyal to god, have their stingers, or their belief in god himself, that will protect them from the pinchers of the spider, satan, allowing them to live a better and proseperous life and to be well in heaven. Whereas the silly …show more content…
flies, or the people who do not follow the will of god, is frail, and is an easy target for satan to bring down to hell.
RESPONSE TO NUMBER 3 These few lines are lines from Jonathon Edwards' Serman of an Angry God. Jonathon Edwards goes on about how everyone is at the mercy of God, and how God has an arrow bent down at your heart, and it is his mere plessure and his generosity that is stopping that arrow from being dug deep into your body. Edwards uses a very dark tone and description of god in order to get people to fear god, and thuse to make people follow god too. These lines are saying that we are all living on this world due to the mercy of god, and at the slightest provocation, or if you are to make god unhappy, he will release his arrow, thus killing you and ending your time on Earth. RESPONSE TO NUMBER 6 These are a series of lines by Mary Rowlandson in her Captivity narative. She talks about how she was devastated when she was forced to leave her dead daughter burried in the wilderness, but she
was glad that god had taken her away and will protect her from this god foresaken place. Then when she goes to see her daugher Mary, who was in the same city as her, it was hard to see each other, and also they had very little occurrences in which she could see her daughter. She prayed to god to give her a sympbol of good, and he immediately blessed her with the appearance of her son from a neighboring village. In this personal narative, Mary Rowlandson talks about regardless of what happens, if you are faithful to god, he will help you in any situation, just like he blessed her when she was in need of a symbol of good still within that world. Her whole life had collapsed in front of her, and god helped her overcome the difficulties of being a capturee, gave back her children, and helped her escape with her remaining children. She believes that god is everywhere, and will always be there in times of need.
Foreboding and dreadful describe the tone of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Edwards makes the tone very clear by saying “The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire” (154). He tries to convey the wrath of god that will come upon them if they do not devoted themselves to Christ by saying “Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon souls, all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God.” (154).
And while describing the fiery wrath of the “Angry God,” Edwards states, “The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation.” By focusing on this group of people, Edwards instills a sense of fear within the audience of “sinners.” 3) Edwards purpose in delivering this sermon was to inform “sinners” of the inevitable doom that He thus creates a sense of helplessness in his audience, and encourages them to submit to God and renew their faith in Christianity. His use of parallelism allows Edwards to exponentially build a sense of fear, and it is maintained throughout this sermon.
The insect keeps the meat fresh by not immediately killing its prey. Instead, it cuts carefully around body parts integral to life, first eating the ones least necessary to survival and ending with vital ones. Gould likens this process to that of drawing and quartering; an antiquated execution procedure practiced by humans, writing, “As the king’s executioner drew out and burned his client’s entrails, so does the ichneumon larvae eat fat bodies and digestive organs first… preserving intact the essential heart and central nervous system” (Gould 2). Gould refers to the human victim as a “client,” a word which connotes partnership and consent, making it seem as though the person in question agreed to their own death. As Gould extends the executioner metaphor to the wasp through his use of analogy, one is lead to believe that the victim of the wasp willingly consents to his death as well. Furthermore, the grisly process detailed in the passage seems quite ordinary, as the reader is desensitized to the violent actions of the wasp through Gould’s cold, clinical word choice, or lack thereof. The stark contrast between the wasp’s brutal actions and the lack of descriptive language denys one an opportunity to fully comprehend the agonizing death of the insect’s victim. This portrayal of the wasp plays directly into the religious perspective by depicting it as an insensitive being with a shocking lack of compassion for its victim. As morality is defined by the ability the determine right from wrong, the wasp appears to be totally immoral as it mercilessly murders another creature for its own
the fates that God had planned for them. He starts to get upset with God when he does not see his
In the story “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” the author Jonathan Edwards uses
The snake tempted Adam and Eve to eat fruit that God told them to stay away from. The Lord of the Flies tells Simon about the horrible aspects of human nature, and foreshadows Simon’s death when he says “I’m going to get angry…You’re not wanted…We are going to have fun on this island…” (147). Both Adam and Simon were naïve and tricked into believing everything would be alright.
does not save by sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's and he will give
Insects may be the bane of some people’s existence, but the creatures are truly strong globes of energy, going about their lives, flitting to and fro. Thoreau and Woolf both captured this essential spirit in their writing. In “Battle of the Ants” and “The Death of the Moth,” both writers observe other life forms, but the way in which they perceive the insects struggles vastly differs. According to an online biography, Thoreau’s exposure to transcendentalism as well as his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson both shaped his writing to emphasize “the importance of empirical thinking and of spiritual matters over the physical world,” whereas Virginia Woolf’s parents raised her to be free thinking which resulted
Doctrines have influenced and been influenced by the ongoing development of secular history, science, and philosophy. Christian view that there is evil in the world. If there is a force of evil, there must be a force of good. Christian view a religious uprising from divine law leading to sainthood. They view God as the divine power or the all-knowing figure. The devil is viewed as malevolence figure and an irrational force. Compared to this novel God is seen as more as a human-like figure. The author allows God to take form in both genders, and the author doesn’t define the God as omniscient. The author portrays God as physical and spiritual guide for Herman rather than his Lord. This helps to create this image of God that he is source of good that appears time to time when needed. There are some differences between the bible and this novel. God wants a relationship with humanity. The main focus, in both creation stories, are humans and humans were God 's only creation that was made in his image. Therefore God is seen as a creator who wants a relationship with us as he makes us special. Furthermore, in the second biblical account of creation the writers of the portray God as a creator who seeks. Compared to this novel God states “That’s the only real commandment…after you learn to stop hurting people, which I assume you’ve done or you wouldn’t be up here in the first place”
One thing that stands out about this poem is that the word fly is capitalized throughout. It makes one wonder what the fly actually represents. Flies often gather around death and dead things, and on one level, the fly can be seen as a representation of death. Death, the perpetual fly on the wall, is finally making itself noticed. Although the speaker has always known that death is going to come, when it finally arrives, its modest appearance is disappointing.
...t is arguable that the birds fight is also a metaphor, implying the fight exists not only between birds but also in the father’s mind. Finally, the last part confirms the transformation of the parents, from a life-weary attitude to a “moving on” one by contrasting the gloomy and harmonious letter. In addition, readers should consider this changed attitude as a preference of the poet. Within the poem, we would be able to the repetitions of word with same notion. Take the first part of the poem as example, words like death, illness
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God , "The God that holds you over the
In order to understand the entirety of a society, we must first understand each part and how it contributes to the stability of the society. According to the functionalist theory, different parts of society are organized to fill discrete needs of each part, which consequently determines the form and shape of society. (Crossman). All of the individual parts of society depend on one another. This is exhibited in “A Bug’s Life” through the distinct roles the ants and grasshoppers play in their own society. The two species are stratified in such a way that they each contribute to the order and productivity of the community. In the movie, the head grasshopper states that “the sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, and the grasshoppers eat the food” (A Bug’s Life). This emphasizes social stability and reliance on one another’s roles. The grasshoppers rely on the ants for food, while the ants rely on the grasshoppers for protection. This effective role allocation and performance is what ensures that together, the ants and grasshoppers form a functioning society to guarantee their survival.
expresses that he knows he would rebel again if given the chance to be back in Heaven,
Subsequently, the spider, “holding up a moth” draws out the evil or cruelty, which is nature. Frost accents this in the subsequent verse, “Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth” (Frost, 593). His play on words here is prodigious, “a white piece of satin cloth” (Frost, 593) this stanza demonstrates ...