Comparing Women in Anna Akhmatova’s Lot’s Wife, Crucifixion, and Rachel

Women have played an important role throughout the Bible even if they were not as respected as the men were back then. I completely understand that some may want to change or interpret the Bible in their own way, however, I have to agree with the Matthew version of the Syrophoenician Woman that Kwok Pui-lan speaks about. Although women would love to think that their gender was worshiped during the time of Jesus, this simply is not the case according to the history books. I do not approve of pushing women out of society or discriminating people by their gender or race, but it did happen. In fact, it still happens today.

The classic Greek myths found in Mythology and ancient stories told in the Bible, often show striking resemblance to each other in narrative, symbolism, and thematic content. In both texts’ respective “Creation Stories”, women are portrayed similarly, cast in a rather unflattering light. The representation of women in both Mythology and the Bible and their portrayal has lasting impact on the way woman are perceived in the present day.

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

Fictional characters are persons that, when enlivened through careful, skillful writing and articulate literary elements, are incredible and relatable figures in any thoughtful novel. In Under The Feet of Jesus, the vibrant and distinct character of Estrella is thoroughly expressed as a young and passionate girl who struggles with her understanding of things that aren’t familiar— such “foreign alphabets” and Perfecto’s tools. Estrella is consumed in these emotions towards things she doesn’t understand, or know for sure, and expresses her moods without restraint. Helena María Viramontes, the author of Under The Feet of Jesus, uses selection of detail and figurative language to further develop this same iron-willed and impassioned character

Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of God are both biblical women who were faced with similar societal standards even thought these time periods are hundreds of years apart. Mary Magdalene was always seen as the “rebellious” women in the bible when it turns out she really wasn 't doing anything wrong. Similarly David Van Biema wrote about this topic in Time Magazine saying that Mary was first seen in the Gospel of Luke as

When discussing the Bible’s New Testament, there are several individuals aside from Jesus that gander a lot of attention. It is not uncommon to hear pastors and priest preaching about the disciples that walked with the messiah during his time of great works during a Sunday service. There are many lessons to be learned from the experiences of and trails faced by the men that knew best. However, even though the Bible is considerable a masculine text, there are many notable women sprinkled throughout it. Most notable, of course, would be the mother of Jesus, Mary. She made several appearances throughout the Gospel from the moment the angel came to her and said “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28) to let her know that she was going to be the mother of the “Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32) to the moment she stood witness to the crucifixion of that Son. Today, after Jesus, Mary – sometimes also called The Virgin Mary – is among those most revered in the Bible. However, she is not the only Mary to have close ties to the Biblical savior. There are actually at least three other Marys to walk along side with Jesus at some point, but none more conversational than Mary Magdalene.

In the work of Margaret Atwood’s “Half-Hanged Mary” the author deliberately uses different types of style to dramatically allow the reader to experience the horrors from the acts of the Puritan people. Each sentence uses words of description to narrate the story of what happened to Mary Webster. In order to clearly understand the motive of knowing what happened to Mary, you have to understand the actual phrases in each verse. Each word have their own meaning of diction that the author uses to provide ambiguous examples.

Ancient societies and their cultures traditionally provided women with no access to power. It was nearly universal for women to be treated as subservient to men while being expected to behave mildly and submissively. The New Testament makes no exception. The Apostle Paul explains that through Christ, women are absolved of constraints that the social hierarchy imposes on them, but he later goes on to explain that even in Christ a religious hierarchy still exists. By acknowledging that women are inferior to men in both the social and religious circles, Paul presents women as subordinates. This contrasts with Njal’s Saga. Through the saga’s characters Gunnhild, Hallgerd, and Bergthora,

He describes the love he feels towards her and her love towards him. He gets more excited and happy as the poem goes on. “She’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch burning with love and happiness." (453, Yevtushenko). Although things have changed and gotten old, she still burns with love at the idea of seeing him. He continues on, getting more heartfelt and emotional. He describes what happens when they finally embraced. “She’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock, will take my head in her hands.” (453, Yevtushenko). His lover didn’t even bother covering herself from the rain when she ran in because she was too excited to see him after so long. He explains that only she understands him. He does not worry about how much he has changed over the years, he believes that even if they had changed, they would still love each other regardless. “Will understand my fears, observe my changes.” (453, Yevtushenko). He has absolute love and trust in her, and rests his entire entity with

Looking closely at Mary and Desiree’s actions and behaviors, it is evident that their will to live were both at an all time low. Both authors were significantly ambiguous in regards to portraying the desolation of the two women; thus, giving us a clear interpretation of their mental state. When Desiree discovers her true origin, she goes to her mom and says, “I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live.” In comparison to Desiree, after Mary kills her husband, the author writes, “ As a wife of a detective, she knew what the punishment would be. It made no difference to her.” Mary was aware enough to know that the outcome of her fatal action would be the death penalty, but it didn’t petrify her . The emotions of both protagonists rose due to the

She grew further and further away from her faith, and the further she got, the more she began to question the issues that suddenly seemed to have plagued her mind. And finally, one solemn day, looking up at Trujillo and Jesus together, she had an epiphany. “I had heard, but I had not believed. Snug in my heart, fondling my pearl, I had ignored their cries of desolation. How could our loving, all powerful Father allow us to suffer so? I looked up, challenging

Elkanah had two wives- Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had two children, but Hannah had none. Year after year when Elkanah came to sacrifice, he would give Peninnah and her children meat, but he would give Hannah double portions because he loved her and the Lord had closed her womb. Whenever she went to the house of the Lord her rival provoked until Hannah wept and wouldn't eat, but her husband would say,“Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”When they finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting in the chair of the doorpost of the Lord’s house. She made a vow to the Lord saying,“Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s

Lot’s Wife In her poem “Lot’s Wife”, Anna Akhmatova depicts a story from the Bible book of Genesis (Genesis 19:1-26), describing Lot’s and his family escaping the city of Sodom. Sodom was a town that was destroyed by God due to various sins committed by the people (fornication and homosexuality), but grant the righteous one’s a free chance to survive including Lot’s and his family. According to the scriptures in the Bible (Genesis 19:15), “with the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be away when the city is punished.”

Many people believe that there is only one account of the Passion of Jesus Christ or they believe that each story is the same; whereas there are four separate Gospel accounts of the Passion of Our Lord. Each of these Gospel accounts supplements the others, however each gospel account of the crucifixion of Jesus is unique, not only in how the story is told but also in the events and features themselves. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John clearly present different portrayals of the death of Jesus Christ. By examining each account the reader discovers the evangelist's understanding of the death accounts of the crucifixion and death of Jesus. The reader must examine and compare all of the Gospel accounts to have a full and