With heavy satire, dramatic and situational, Lewis shows how the devils views Christian society and how he tries to manipulate Christians into losing their faith through subtle ways. In this satire C.S. Lewis exposes man’s great and tiny faults and how the devil tries to take advantage of each of them to make his walk with God miserable until the Christian falls. The worldview in the Screwtape letters is a Christian worldview. Lewis shows that Christianity is ultimately logical and that one of the main ways the devil tries to attack Christians is to avoid logic.
I'LL take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?—who told you you could?’ ” (chapter 5) | | | | The Role of Religion | Twain believes that… organized religion is a destructive force. He sees himself as a skeptic, and therefore uses Huckleberry Finn to demonstrate his apprehension. In the beginning, Huck ridicules the constant religious teachings of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas. Miss Watson even tries frightened Finn into religion by telling him he will go to hell if he sins.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” John Edwards was a radical speaker during the The Great Awakening, who gave one of the most famous sermons, known as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” This sermon was given to provoke people to turn from secular things, and come back to God, lest they burn in hell. John Edwards uses very strong imagery, tone, and details to get his point across while frightening the congregation. John Edwards strong use of imagery ignites fear into the people to help get his point across. He starts off his sermon with, “ Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead. and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards Hell; and if God should let you go you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf…” This immediately causes a sense of fear, making it seem as if the only thing keeping the people out of hell was God’s hand.
Nonetheless, the revenge takes over Chillingworth’s life describing, "…That old man's revenge [is] blacker than my sin. He [violates], in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart…" (141). Chillingworth is an example of the darkness Puritans possess as they punish others for not following the laws of society. Just like the Puritan community, Chillingworth wants to make Dimmesdale and Hester regret the sin they have committed and go back on a path of religious devotion to God. Subsequently, not
Tom shows when he cheat the devil by saying he is a church goer. “ He prayed loudly strenuously, as if Heaven were taken by force of lungs” (Irving 237). Tom betrays the devil and gets himself killed by doing this in a deceiving manner. Tom makes poor choices that gets himself hurt “...the couple's miserly habits in which they “' conspired to cheat each other” (“overview”). Tom was not a good husband or a good cheater.
His anger caught his emotions during his clash with Lenina. 3. In the incidents of John rejecting Bernard’s dinner, Helmholtz disagrees about love and family. John and Lenina reflect love; both characters try to clear their position. For Bernard, his opposition comes from anger, jealousy, and vengeance, “Helmholtz and the savage took to one another”, “Bernard felt… a pang of jealously” (182).
Edwards’s language choice affects the audience's emotional response, and emotional appeal, to enhance the argument; “You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.” He uses as many terms and diction’s as possible to frighten the sinners. His selling idea is to have as many sinners as possible to repent and to his observations the most effective and ethical (ethos) way, was through fear and intimidation. He wrote the sermon with a passion and anger that partly reflected what he thought of God’s anger. He ask the audience to repent in an ethical manner, trying to reason with the sinners,
Amir’s decision to leave Hassan during the rape was a significant scene in the story that provides evidence for Baba’s thoughts to be true. His lack of courage leads to a major internal conflict between guilt and Baba’s acceptance. Being envious of the way Baba treats Hassan, Amir struggles among the sacrifice of his companion and the blue kite to win Baba’s approval. He asks himself many questions during an internal dialogue as he returns home. Amir compares Hassan as ‘the lamb’ (77) he had to slay and questions whether it was a ‘fair price’ (77) for the relationship and approval from Baba that he had always longed for.
Mr. Brocklehurst undeniably characterizes the degree of hypocrisy and cruelty that Christianity can shape. Scenes involving him in the novel are ironic and satirize Christian religious figures to an extreme. While at Lowood, Jane and other residents are tormented by Brocklehurst who uses religion as a justification for their cruel conditions. He even goes so far as to chastise Miss Temple for providing the children with an extra meal when their breakfast had been to poor quality to eat, justifying this with ''a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of the martyrs'' as a basis for letting the girls go hungry. Another example of Brocklehurst's hypocritical nature is evident in this same chapter wherein he insists that the girl's hair be cut because curls are un-Christian, not modest enough, however it seems that he failed to mention this to his wife and two daughters who walk into the scene with their hair done up grandly in curls.
King Claudius, Prince Hamlet, and Polonius all shared the common trait of cunning fabrication, and while useful at times; it ultimately led to internal conflict in themselves and others, the irrational resolution of Laertes, and their premature deaths. While the reasons behind their actions force them into unfavorable situations, Claudius’, Hamlet’s and Polonius’ manners do not go without regret. No move made goes unseen, creating angst within themselves or others in their lives. Claudius’ own belief of Hamlet’s madness is questioned by his own remorse over his brother’s murder and pressures him to think that his “offense is rank […] to heaven,” despite prior certainty he would be “sweet and commendable” in the affair (Hamlet III. iii.