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The Wife of Bath’s tale is set in a fairytale-like, mythical setting which can be coined as an “overlay landscape” in Christian ecopoetics. In this land, women are depicted as victims because the...
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Summary: I want to make the argument that the Wife of Bath and her tale centered around the “old hag” and power dynamics shows a new form of woman in Medieval writing. The Wife of Bath is a...
View ArticleInvalidating Idols
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Notes from the Underground, and “Appendix: The Spiritual Emptiness of Our Time and the Meeting with the Living God” all comment on the idea of believing in idols,...
View ArticleWomen Turning Suffering into Spiritual Power
When given sovereignty over her husband, a wrinkled, grotesque, elder sheds her skin and becomes exquisite. Her beauty and grace become unmatched. The Wife of Bath and her Tale afford a...
View ArticleLife is Meaningless
In the novel The Brothers of Karamazov, a murder falls ill days after confessing his crime to Zosima and dies in a pleasant state, therefore portraying the meaningless of life as written in The...
View ArticlePreliminary Materials, Work in Progress 11/04
Description: I will argue that human beings are in a battle between religion and nihilism. I will juxtapose Ivan against Alyosha and his elder Zosima, and thus depict that Ivan is a rebel in his own...
View ArticleThe Suffering of a Nonbeliever
Alyosha asserts that the reason for Ivan’s great mental suffering is his rebellious nature that leads to his refusal to submit to God, therefore this belief is paralleled in Frank’s chapter titled The...
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To be illuminated by the Holy Spirit is to feel the sunlight permeating through one’s skin and into one’s core. Nevertheless, experiencing God’s touch through a sun’s ray is exclusive to a few...
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Rediscovering his faith and love for humanity, Alyosha is compelled to the Earth’s surface and embraces the ground with a raging river of tears and the promise of forgiveness for all. Bits and pieces...
View ArticleOne Can Find Purpose by Virtue of Self-Emptying
Transfigured by virtue, Alyosha Karamazov falls to the Earth’s surface and embraces the ground with a gentle river of tears and promises forgiveness for all in a critical scene of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s...
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