Theocracy

For any evidence of a civilization ever existing there has to be some form of art or architecture left behind. Clues of a long forgotten government, economy, and social class for scientists to find. Remains of their math and science, religion and literature works left to vanish into thin air. The remnants of Mesopotamia reveal to us that their intellectual achievements were far greater than those of Egypt, in terms of their architecture, economy and government, knowledge in math and science,…

Fear causes people to do bizarre things. In literature, fear can be used to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the protagonist. In Edgar Alan Poe’s book, The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe uses fear to captivate the reader into wanting to know what happens next. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, fear is used in two ways, overcoming fear and letting fear ruin your life. There is always some sort of fear in literature, even if it isn't obvious. You can never escape fear, you can only overcome it…

During the 17th century, many Europeans, especially the English came over to America in search of a life better than the one they had in England. In the early to mid 1600s, two different groups of people, the participants from the Virginia Company and the Puritans. Despite this similarity, both the participants and the Puritans had other intentions of moving to America and with this, many other differences. Taking all the advantages and disadvantages the two groups had into consideration, the…

The boiling point How has life changed from year to year? Life changes every year, as a matter of fact, but what about the past sixty-four years? A lot can change in such a long time, at least you would think. Of course styles change, relationships change, So much changes! So much changes that you would think the way we act would change. The way we present ourselves would be more civil like. But how different do we really act compared to 1952, when The Crucible was written? Arthur Miller once…

McCarthyism and the Salem witch trials were both built up by paranoia. The fear of communists and witches was a great threat. In the Salem witch trials, people 's paranoia destroyed lives. The thought of being a disciple of Satan in a theocracy was punishable by death or life in jail. This constant fear of being the next person accused of witch craft is greater than the witchcraft itself. McCarthyism was a dangerous threat too. Paranoid people were attempting to stop terrorism before the…

William stepped onto the floor. He paused at a bulletin board to read Christian-themed literature, and dates for upcoming Christian Coalition meetings and events. He turned and walked down a hallway lined with whitewashed doors to a single room at the end of the hall. He knocked softly. While he waited, he read from a whiteboard on the door. The whiteboard was headed Resident Assistant, Mary Malfronte - Floor Rules. At the bottom of the list of rules, Mary had written in neat block lettering -…

perpetrated by the leadership of his tyrannical government. Similarly, Atwood creates a society named the Republic of Gilead, and the main character and protagonist, Offred, to explore the loss of civil liberties under a misogynistic, autocratic theocracy. In both dystopian novels, however, government maintains its power in similar ways. For example, the leadership in both Orwell’s and Atwater’s societies,…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian society that occurs when a conservative party takes control of a nation. Offred is the main character who is subject to this government. It changes her life in a way that completely displaces her from her old life in a negative way. Offred is shaped by her cultural surroundings. Specifically, the religious components of the world around her and the harsh government guides her thoughts and views. She is psychologically and…

between the cultures would rock the nation as we tried to unite. Therefore, this struggle is a struggle of belief systems. These societies built on separate lifestyles and cultures, with notable differences being between landownership/oligarchy and theocracy/church based politics, the prevalent ideals of harshness and peace, and the racism of the Chesapeake and New England’s lack of racism. This racism would carry on into the civil war and to the future. This instance, in the Chesapeake, is…

Saudi Arabia people treat Islam as a state religion, which permeates in their lives (Religion and its Influence). This is the driving force behind their personal, political, economic, and legal lives. It is strictly enforced theocracy. Saudis also rely on religion to control and operate their behave and lives. For instance, in an export transaction such as frozen chicken, people cannot use machine to slaughter, even more blood on the chicken. Returning of goods not because of…