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    Comedy Critique

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    Comedy Critique Goethe’s Faust and Voltaire’s Candide were two of the most interesting books that I have ever read! Both comedies were very different from each other in many ways. The structure of both books varied significantly. I enjoyed Candide more than Faust partially due to the structure. I found that because Faust almost entirely rhymed that it was harder to follow. It was very distracting to me and I felt as if the rhyming took away from the story. Candide was told more like a story and

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    Dante talks to many souls while he is in hell. None of which repent for their sins. All of the souls in hell are being punished so if any of them do repent it cannot be known if it is genuine or not because they are being tortured‚ and for repentance to be repentance it has to be for the love of God. Repentance is not a turning to God to gain forgiveness. Repentance is not a turning to God to avoid punishment. Repentance has is asking for forgiveness from God because of the love that one has for

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    (New Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 1993‚ 10‚ 467). Satirical works are commonly critical. Hawthorn (2005:197) states‚ "Satire attacks alleged vices and stupidities either of individuals or of whole communities or groups - and its tools are ridicule‚ exaggeration and contempt." However‚ Sutherland (1958:2) points out that not all satirical works are equally critical. He argues that: 12 Some works are satirical throughout; in others the

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    humor. Some may find it offensive because the joke makes fun of their culture or their personality. We experience comedy in our everyday lives‚ or when we sit down to watch a funny movie. In modern day most comedy targets a certain group of people or race. Humor is the quality or being amusing‚ however it is funny only to some extent otherwise it may become a form of bulling‚ and comedy is in our nature so people should laugh to stay happy. Humor is something amusing that makes you and other people

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    The Insanity of Edmond Dantes In the story The Count of Monty Christo by Alexander Dumar‚ Edmond Dantes is to become the captain of the ship Pharaon. He is framed for collaborating with a traitor. Edmond is sent to prison without a proper trial. The prison‚ Château d’If‚ is a terrible place. Dantes finds the captivity more than he can bear and becomes suicidal (59) Edmond is actually insane and hallucinates most of the story. Edmond is actually in his cell for the majority of the book‚ and predicts

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    Old Comedy

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    The first period of the ancient Greek comedy is known as Old Comedy. Out of the forty poets who are named as having illustrated the style of Old Comedy in 460-404 B.C. Aristophanes was one of the chiefs‚ whose works‚ with their political satire of sexual innuendo‚ effectively defines the genre today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Comedy) Also known as the Father of Comedy and the representative of Old Comedy‚ Aristophanes has been said to have recreated the life of Ancient Athens more convincingly

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    Figuring out who you are is hard‚ but for Edmond Dantes‚ it’s even worse. So many things have happened to him‚ shaping his character from person to person. Being in prison for so long took all the optimism and hope he had when he first came off the ship. Being someone else after he escaped so people wouldn’t know who he was changed him. He started acting like the person he was pretending to be and less like himself and how he was before prison. His life became revolved around the aspect of revenge

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    The story of Dante’s Divine Comedy is one that is now read throughout the world and is highly regarded as one of the great literary works of all time. The most famous of the Divine Comedy‚ the Inferno‚ is the story of Dante’s journey through Hell. With the great poet‚ Virgil‚ as his guide‚ they make their way through the nine circle of Hell in which Dante describes. While‚ very much a religious work‚ it is also just as political in substance because of the ways in which Dante draws on his life experiences

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    The Divine Order

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    The divine order During Shakespeare’s time‚ people believed in the divine order‚ which was also called great chain of being. This was religions belief that god had allocated everything that existed its own position is a hierarchy. For example‚ people were more important than animals‚ and animals more important than plants. Men were considered more important than women and nobles more important than peasants. It was thought that if something or someone tried to change their position in the divine

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    IS DIVINE REVELATION A VALID SOURCE FOR THEOLOGY? Lim K Tham What is Revelation? Our starting point is to understand the concept of revelation. A simple definition of revelation is this: revelation is the disclosure or unveiling of something that has been concealed. It is the lifting of an obscuring veil‚ so as to disclose something that was formerly hidden. It is of a different order from our ordinary matter-of-fact knowing of the world in that the initiative lies with that which is known

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