Darkness Reveals The Heavenly Lights

Throughout the world, an undeniable, yet perpetual force is responsible for tearing nearly everyone apart: hopelessness. Often caused by instability or vulnerability, hopelessness plagues those who refrain from combating its vile side effects. Hopelessness loves company, producing an inseparable bond between itself and self-doubt. During wartime events, it’s imperative to display some form of resistance towards the crippling despair. Although on the surface hopelessness seems insurmountable, it can be fought. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr emphasizes how the vital tool of resilience can be used to conquer hopelessness in all situations.

Through its survivors, memories of the Holocaust live on today. During World War II, Nazi Germany was destined to exterminate all Jewish communities in occupied Europe in concentration camps. The remembrance of the Holocaust is resurrected in Elie Wiesel’s Night, where he proves to lose faith in God by evoking his feelings about the corruption of humanity.

An important quote in 1984 is "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness"(Orwell 25). This quote is said in one of Winston's dreams. Dreaming was the only grounds to escape for the citizens of Oceania unless you are one of those people to mutter things about what you are dreaming when you're sleeping. "He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness is the imagined future"(Orwell 26). A spot with no murkiness was thought about a spot where individuals had opportunity, where individuals could express their feelings. Furthermore , Winston thought it implied that individuals would one day be free of the party. Moreover, it gave Winston trust in a superior future. Truth be told,

In the exceptional novel All the Light We Cannot See, author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of two young adults whom had to experience life during World War II.

The First Great Awakening has its opponents known as Old Lights. They defended and practiced the old Puritan orthodoxy and refuted to accept the First Great Awakening changes and its new form of worship. However, “Old Lights did not preserve a united front in the years between the cooling of the revival and the onset of the Revolution.” 11

In addition, King uses the extended metaphor of lightness and darkness throughout his letter to convey a disappointed, yet hopeful tone. King chooses negatively connotated words in reference to darkness such as dark cloud, dark dungeon, and others to establish the disappointed half of his tone. For example, King says “help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood”; King believes that African Americans are being oppressed, as darkness relates to injustices that African Americans face. In describing light, King includes “with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured”. This means that by speaking

The two stories “The Light” and “The Black” may sound similar, but they are still completely different. One is about living people and them being haunted, the other is about the dead and what their life is like. But if you have read the two books, you would know that they share something similar. The theme. The theme in these stories is to take control of your life, don’t let other people control it for you.

Do you feel comfortable in the dark as you feel in the light? The gothic novel of Dracula is full of motifs that differ from religion to idealism. A motif is an idea or element in a written work that is repeated over the length of the book. In the novel Dracula is seen as a dark and evil character will the others that are battling against Dracula are seen as the good or the bright people. In the novel there is even a character that is named “The Light of the West”.

The realism movement of the late nineteenth century produced works in literature that were marked by reduced sentimentality and increased objectivity. The goal was to let details tell the story, and remove noticeable bias of the author through scientific and detailed descriptions. While this form of storytelling undoubtedly is most accurate, it creates difficulties for authors to incorporate their themes into the story. This resulted in an increase in symbolism in realist works. The objects and descriptions within the story are the author’s vehicle for displaying the values and themes of the work. Light and darkness are symbols commonly used in literature, and have held specific symbolic

Outer Darkness is the residence of Lucifer and his allies who have denied Christ’s plan of salvation for mankind. This place has neither a divine presence nor lamentation and is the place of ultimate suffering as those residing is grieving for a sense heavenly glory. Those who had a perfect knowledge of Christ and rejected him shall reside her and those who rejected Christ’s plan of salvation before entering earth will dwell with Lucifer as sons of perdition. This idea is the closet analogy to the Christian idea of hell. Those who won’t repent for their sins on Earth in spirit prison will reside in Outer darkness for one thousand years, those who are not sons of perdition will be resurrected to the Telestial glory because of the Atonement

When I first set out to propose a project, I wasn’t sure what topic I wanted to conquer. Therefore, I quickly jumped when the professor suggested reading the memoir, “Darkness Visible” by William Styron. I have enjoyed all the class readings so far, I even did my last project on another memoir, and thought that reading a fresh perspective regarding mental illness would be engaging and inspiring.

Since the Razzo screening of this week consists of multiple movies. I would like to divide my response into two parts. The first part focuses on the key qualities that make Let There Be Light such an iconic documentary and also the source of its supression by the government. The second part focuses on the experimental films: Meshes of the Afternoon, Fireworks, and Rose Hobart.

In A Temporary Matter, there lies the opportunity for the truth to be said in the comforts of darkness. When the power goes out Shoba and Shukumar are free to share secrets and rediscover one another. Darkness allows them to face things they are unable to do or say in the light. They are protected by the darkness but when the lights come back they are then faced with the painful realities of the truth and the betrayal of light.

Depression is the leading mental illness worldwide, affecting millions of people every day. As one of the most common mental illnesses, it can occur to anyone, at any age, and to people of any race or ethnic group. With his book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron became of the first people to publicly acknowledge his struggling battle with depression. Darkness Visible is an intense and haunting account of Styron’s own suicidal depression in which he reminds us of the toll that this dreadful illness can have on an individual. As Styron describes his own descent into depression, he tells about the place that he was in, “the despair beyond despair” as he describes it to be. Since its publication, his memoir has been appreciated throughout the world and become a helping hand for people around the world who are suffering from depression. Styron’s description of his experiences resonates with people in a deep and profound way, turning his work into an advocate for the movement for the awareness for depression

According to Scripture, we see a vast gathering around the throne of God serving the Lord day and night (Revelation 7). We also have an enemy that appears before the throne of God day and night.  The Bible says in Revelation 12:10 in the King James Version that Satan accuses us day and night, "for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night" looking for some fault with which to charge us as guilty. Where the angels and the host of heaven come to serve the Lord day and night, Satan comes to accuse us day and night. The Greek definition of the word “accuser” is a verb (an action word) which means;