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First of all, I would like to talk about briefly the character Zarathustra for Nietzsche by referring his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The book mainly includes the made-up journey and the philosophical speeches of Zarathustra. The journey starts when Zarathustra was in the age thirty, he left his home and went into the mountains. After his personal experiences in the mountains as a hermit, he wanted to return to humanity to spread the wisdom that he has attained. For many readers,…

Skyelar McQuillar Honors Comp & Lit 3A November 4, 2016 Is Being Famous a Faustian Bargain? In the play ‘Faustus’, the main character, Doctor Faustus made a deal with devil. Faustus was very knowledgeable but he wanted more, he wanted black magic. In order to get that he sold his soul to devil for 24 years in return for Mephastophilis as his servant. Faustus signs the contract in his blood and has second thoughts on what he just did. Faustus begins to learn new spells and uses his gift as…

When reading Night by Elie Wiesel and watching the “Save the Children” advert, both pieces use of powerful imagery like the way the little girl faces throughout the video and the first look at the horrors of a concentration camp. A theme that is present in both works is don’t ignore suffering just because it isn’t happening to you. Wiesel chooses to illuminate the theme through giving his reader a sense of being in the moment he experienced. Wiesel has just been taken from his home and is being…

Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Heard A Fly Buzz” has caused debate on what the fly and the buzzing stands for. Dickinson’s poem symbolism of the fly can be tied back to Christ or it has been seen as a negative symbol. George Monteiro asks the questions, why is that “Fly” in the room, and why is death personified as the “King”? He looks back and compares this to the folklore legends. He examines the religious legend surrounding the death of Jesus Christ and the flies which gathered on Christ’s body…

Lucifer, the prince of dawn, and holder of light. He was an archangel and walked amongst the stones of fire, the thrones of god. Lucifer led a rebellion against God, he thought he was more beautiful than God, so he desired to be worshiped as God. 1/3rd of angels in heaven followed Lucifer's rebellion, then God cast out Lucifer, he fell like lightning from heaven. This ended the preadamic race. God judged the preadamic world by catastrophic effects, this killed every living thing. God came down…

Satanism Satanism as a religious topic refers to the collaboration of philosophical and ideological beliefs on the character of Satan. Satanism officially lingered in the public offing in 1966, with the emergence of Church of Satanism. However, prior to the Church of Satanism, history shows that Satanism existed earlier. Earlier, according to historical facts, a group known as Sphite Cultus Satanas established itself in the State of Ohio in 1948. Sloane Arthur Herbert founded the Sphite Cultus…

What does fire represent throughout this novel? Well, I'm going to tell you so keep reading. The novel is comparing Victor to the Greek God, Prometheus and how he gave the gift of fire to the people but in the end result got punished. So when Victor was trying to give the people "the secret of life" he also go punished for doing that. Fire is a symbol for destruction, when the creature is consumed by the fury of when the people didn't like him. He started to burn their homes down. In the…

Almost every discipline depicted in Inferno is planned to speak to a contrapasso, an impression of the wrongdoing being rebuffed. Dante first acquaints the peruser with the thought in the Vestibule, where the uncommitted are rebuffed. Since they were uncommitted in life, they are compelled to perpetually pursue, yet never find, a flag while being tormented by stinging creepy crawlies. What's more, since they never did extraordinary deeds for good or sick, their characters are difficult to…

The mood changes from a normal and mundane to cold and lifeless when the dementors attack. Dementors are soul eaters, when they kiss their victims, the soul of the victim is taken away. Without their soul, a victim of dementors will most likely have no love, no expression. They can’t ever get their soul back again. So, when the dementors attack in the alleyway, “The star-strewn indigo sky was suddenly pitch-black and lightless ---- the stars, the moon, the misty streetlamps on either end of the…

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas. In Young Goodman Brown symbolism is used multiple times. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism in his short story “Young Goodman Brown” through the pink ribbons, the staff, and Faith. Pink Ribbons The Pink Ribbons that are in Faith’s hat represent her purity because pink comes across as innocent. When the pink ribbons fall out of the sky, Goodman Brown saw it that Faith had fallen into the hands of the devil. At the end of the story when Faith…