The Borromean Rings In George Orwell's Animal Farm
In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell creates a fable about animals rebelling and taking back their farm, but in doing so, they soon become workers of the pigs who eventually rule the farm. This situation is much like the Russian Revolution where Stalin is seen and viewed as Russia's hero by creating a better place when in fact Russia's state only grew worse. And the two leaders, Stalin and Napoleon, only had done good things whilst traitors or wrongdoers continued to come from others.
The Catholic Church adopted an ancient symbol, the Borromean Knot, to justify its central tenet that Jesus Christ was divine; that the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost were three inseparable elements of one entity called God. Joyce uses the same metaphor …show more content…
(Catechism)
The Church adopted an ancient symbol for the Trinity, the Borromean Rings. An initial look at the structure leads one to believe that it consists of three separate links, the configuration of which is actually a physical impossibility, since the rings would have to be linked in separate planes. Therefore, if one of the rings were removed, the other links would separate as well, which is why the rings represent the three-in-one nature of God: God is not three distinct entities but one entity composed of three elements.
The Borromean Rings are a metaphor, but one that results in the “mystery of all ages, now made manifest … to be felt rather than to be understood” (Bacon 532). The mystery, necessarily, required interpreters to be intermediaries between Man and God since laypeople could not understand God nor have a direct experience with this unknowable being. Christians are simply required to have faith, and any individuals who claimed to have communion with God were considered heretics by the Church. Ironically, Judaism also required a rabbi to interpret scripture for its followers, which was the very reason Christ was crucified. His profession that he had direct religious experiences with God threatened the authority of the chief rabbis. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley
The Catholic Church adopted an ancient symbol, the Borromean Knot, to justify its central tenet that Jesus Christ was divine; that the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost were three inseparable elements of one entity called God. Joyce uses the same metaphor …show more content…
(Catechism)
The Church adopted an ancient symbol for the Trinity, the Borromean Rings. An initial look at the structure leads one to believe that it consists of three separate links, the configuration of which is actually a physical impossibility, since the rings would have to be linked in separate planes. Therefore, if one of the rings were removed, the other links would separate as well, which is why the rings represent the three-in-one nature of God: God is not three distinct entities but one entity composed of three elements.
The Borromean Rings are a metaphor, but one that results in the “mystery of all ages, now made manifest … to be felt rather than to be understood” (Bacon 532). The mystery, necessarily, required interpreters to be intermediaries between Man and God since laypeople could not understand God nor have a direct experience with this unknowable being. Christians are simply required to have faith, and any individuals who claimed to have communion with God were considered heretics by the Church. Ironically, Judaism also required a rabbi to interpret scripture for its followers, which was the very reason Christ was crucified. His profession that he had direct religious experiences with God threatened the authority of the chief rabbis. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley