Sean Blumlein
Mr. Flood
English 11 H
20 March 2018
Light Prevails in the Night
When people hear the word light they often think of physical light, but the word light has many underlying interpretations and meanings. Whether in the form of wavelengths, the constant struggle of good versus evil, representing life, a guide, a force, or to describe speed, light is almost always a positive that often relates to a person being on the pathway to happiness. The many elements and meanings of light are illustrated in various biblical texts, shakespearean works, and many modern news articles. Since the beginning of time there has always been the constant struggle of good versus evil. A common comparison for good versus evil, is light versus darkness. The good and righteous people in written works are associated with light and the evil wicked people, the bad guys, are often associated with darkness. In the Bible, there is a spiritual
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In this battle, light almost always prevails because it is stronger than the darkness. John says, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome" (John 1:5). You can clearly see this demonstrated in the physical world with a simple test: If someone turns on a light in a dark room, the darkness instantly vanishes and if that person opens a window at night in a lighted room, the darkness of the night cannot invade the lighted room because the light is more powerful than the darkness. In Macbeth, King Duncan names Malcolm as his predecessor and hails Macbeth for his bravery in battle by comparing them to the stars. He says "Signs of nobleness,like stars, shall shine”(Shakespeare I.4.323). Duncan explains those who are righteous will be rewarded and will shine like a "star", he says this because light is seen as good. But, Macbeth begins to ignore theses values that Duncan has spoken highly of him for. He says,
The relation in the movies comes from a scene in the end involving David and another girl from his school. Color starts to fill Pleasantville, and the girl he is sitting with in the lawn gets up and grabs a fruit of off the tree, and then she hands the fruit to David to eat, much like Eve did with Adam. As soon as they ate the fruit, it started to rain in Pleasantville for the first time ever, symbolizing God’s anger, and color now completely filled Pleasantville. The discovery in books also reminds me of the “Tree of Knowledge of good and evil”, the books being good, and the reading of them being evil because it made people curious to as what else was out in the real world. Therefore there is an effect in both cases, the biblical one, and also the movie.
In this quote, Shakespeare describes the light and the stars as being noble, and that anyone who carries any signs of nobleness will in fact succeed in the eyes of the King. The quote highlights King Duncan’s idea that Macbeth does not actually deserve any honor however, Malcolm will not be the only one honored, the stars will shine anyone who is worthy of it when King Duncan explains to Malcolm and Macbeth that he will reward anyone who is virtuous to him.
For example they told about a man and a women in the beginning of time who lived in the sky world and one day the women was hungry and wanted some bark from the forbidden tree. Wait a second, that sound familiar, sound like the story of Adam and Eve that we know today. She fell through a hole near the tree and was caught by animals and began to build up this new area that was full of water my making land. The women had a child that she walked the lands with and helped create the land. Her daughter was then to bear twins. This is just like the story of Mary conceiving Jesus. The two twins were in constant competition trying to beat the other one one twin was born normally and the other through the armpit killing their mother. “As the twins became men full grown, they still contested with one another,” (pg 42). They created the animals, one would create a good one and the other would create one to kill the others animal therefore creating balance in the world. Just like today there is good and evil still working against each other to create a balanced
In the book Anthem, light is symbolic of a numerous amount of things. Some of these things include happiness,purity,creativity, and more.However, the main thing light is symbolic of is knowledge.
Hope is what is given to all at one point in someone’s life where all seems to be lost. Throughout the book Night Elie Wiesel, the author, expresses his experience during the Holocaust. The book allows us to understand how a horrible tragedy causes hope to be lost as well as faith. Elie Wiesel reveals his theme through the use of dark and light. The light presented in his book expresses the good seen throughout this tragedy.
The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night, an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text, Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly, if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes because of the absence of God, the dehumanization of the prisoners, and all of the death that surrounds him.
Bear Grylls once said, “ Survival can be summed up into three words: never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” In the book Night, Elie Wiesel endures many misfortunes and has to motivate himself to continue to live on. The message that he is trying to relate concerning resilience is that pushing and trying to survive to make it through the hard times in life can lead to overcoming the hardships.
Light is used in the story to symbolize hope in a world full of despair and dark times. “We could not see our body nor feel it, and in that moment nothing existed save our two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss” (Rand 60). Equality has discovered electrical light which was destroyed and hidden many years ago. The light also meant to symbolize Equality’s new found in a society where hope is outlawed leaving people sad and depressed with no knowledge of other emotion. A light in a world of “darkness” has
and darkness symbolized the struggle between good and evil, right and wrong. Galadriel- one of
Over the years, pride has been used by many poets and writers to condemn human society. One such writer was the famous English writer William Shakespeare. He did this with the help of his tragedies. “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is one such play. Macbeth was a brave soldier, but because of his lust for power and his pride, he met a tragic end. The play demonstrated an important fact that pride is a slow poison. That is, it does not show its affect immediately. Macbeth, from the beginning, was proud of himself. His quote, “For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fire; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” (21), is one which creates a thought about Macbeth in the mind of the readers. It clearly shows the pride Macbeth has within himself and explains his action throughout the play. Macbeth is asking stars to hide to shine so no one knows about his evil desires, in fact, here he is trying to tell nature what to do. This is the beginning where
Whenever the light is mentioned in the story there is always darkness to go hand in hand with it. The light equals to positive relief whereas the darkness exemplifies the dread and misery that always threatens to extinguish those encouraging things. These references to the light and darkness give the reader a sense of the mood and tone of the story. These symbols make the story an important part of
The world we live in is not black and white, it's one giant grey area. Humans are not completely good nor solely evil, we all have light and darkness inside us. Everyone in the book judged Elphaba by her green skin, calling her evil and 'wicked' just because she stood up for what she believed in and didn't care what people thought of her.
The first book of the Hebrew bible, Genesis, tells the story of how an all powerful God created the Earth and all who inhabit it. The story is quite familiar even to those who do not belong to regions that utilize the hebrew bible. However, the story quickly becomes unfamiliar once the story is analyzed from a philosophical standpoint. A great example is Eve, people know her as the one who “disobeyed” God and is the first to sin. But, why is Eve often interpreted as the evil one? Why is she criticized for being the
This completely blind-sides Macbeth because he is overconfident in himself and is expecting to win the fight between Macduff and he. Now he feels intimidated, and the play follows the saying “pride comes before the fall”. Macbeth was prideful and overconfident, and then he is slain by Macduff and the play ends shortly. This is one of the best examples of “security” being one of mans greatest downfalls. If Macbeth had not been so overconfident, he might have been better prepared for his fight with Macduff and perhaps could have maybe even forced a victory in his favor. Because he lets his fatal flaw get the best of him, Macbeth is destroyed and in the end, Macbeth pays the ultimate price for his foolish overconfidence, his life.
Macbeth develops into a pernicious king as the play advances, as he commits horrendous actions that result in his own wrecking. Nevertheless, he has differentiated himself during the battle against the treacherous Thane of Cawdor, and the King of Norway. He is the brave soldier who leads King 's Duncan force to victory through his strength and skill level. King Duncan addresses Macbeth as his "…valiant cousins (and) / (A) worthy gentleman" (I.ii.25). This shows, how the King recognizes Macbeth 's skill on the battlefield, and therefore rewards Macbeth with a higher title, the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth displays these characteristics once again in Act IV, as he ignores the witches ' prophecies, don 's his armour and fights against a heavily armed army, which is a greater size than his own Scottish infantry. This performance displays that Macbeth still holds the attributes of bravery as he did initially. For the first time, he makes a decision by setting aside the prophecies. In the play, the townsfolk see their malicious