prayer and regular in charity: And whatever good Ye send forth for your souls before you, ye shall find it with Allah: For Allah sees well all that ye do. (Quran 2:110) Salat, usually translated into English as "prayer", is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other four pillars are the Declaration of Faith (Shahadah), charity (Zakah), fasting (Sawm), and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Salat should be performed five times a day: daybreak (Fajr), noon (Zuhr), mid-afternoon (Asr), sunset (Maghrib)
great possibility that you were reading a classic Western. Many readers of this genre would describe its stereotypes as what I listed above. You can almost always find that protagonist cowboy hero, who tends to be a good-looking and sharp character that fights the dirty, rugged, evil villain in an epic climax while trying to save his gorgeous and innocent lady. The setting is often a flat, unpopulated, and undeveloped town, surrounded by mountains. The Western genre played a large role in developing
Wild West: The Mythical Cowboy and Social Theory”, John White’s book “Westerns”, and Jane Tompkin’s book “West of Everything, The Inner life of Westerns” and various films which consist of William A. Wellman “The Ox-Bow Incident”, Fred Zinnemann “High Noon”, John Ford “The Searchers”, Sam Peckinpah “The Wild Bunch”, and Robert Altman “McCabe & Mrs.Miller”. Old western movies are one of the most classic, acquiescent, and common American genres of mythic origins. Most settings in western movies are
based on the belief that all humans were evil beings. From this, his view of human nature is revealed: all humans are immoral because of their sins. Though he created these personas through this idea, he also leaves them with a bit of humanity. In a way, Hawthorne presents many of his characters with the same traits said by an English novelist and author, Graham Greene: “Goodness has only found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature
over us for the good of technology and feel little or no remorse for any such unscrupulous actions. In most cyberpunk novels, the Punks who are making use of the new technology often come from the younger generation, and much like the non-fiction in Cyberpunk, these juveniles have intense imaginations, which is a seed for any cyberpunk culture. The Punks visualize new applications for our latest technology, no matter what the judgment may be for that application (good vs. evil). These envisioned
an issue rather than its surfacing argument. Cawelti's Western formula holds a strong assumption that men are assertive and women are insignificant. He is standardizing the black and white of the West. There is an unequivocal struggle between good and evil—and guns and violence can only solve that. Jane Tompkins standpoint on a Western seems to be a middle ground between Cawelti and Crane. She recognizes that violence is a central theme to a Western, but as well explains how we think of
responsibility for his family and his people. Though he must work to survive, he seems content with his simple life. Kino’s life is turned on it’s head, however, when his son Coyotito is stung by a black scorpion. Because the town doctor’s fee is too high, he is filled with a sense of despair and anger. Kino’s luck seems to have reversed, however, when he manages to obtain an enormous pearl from the depths of the ocean: Kino deftly slipped his knife into the edge of the shell. Through the knife he
Highmore describes it as a “juxtaposing of disparate elements” (Highmore 46). Surrealists took the evil, they took the wickedness and the debauchery, and they placed it in with the “clean” and the “good”. Opposites have the optimal effect of bringing out the different qualities of two objects. In order to defamiliarize what was good and normal, Surrealists had to place it in juxtaposition with what was evil and unusual. One Surrealist who has a particular knack for this sort of juxtaposing is Georges
Satan knows it would have been harder to convince Adam, or even to convince Eve with Adam in her presence. Satan is smooth in his approach towards Eve. Milton compares the way Satan moves toward Eve to a skilled steersman steering a ship through high winds without wrecking. Satan wants to catch Eve’s eye, but he does not want to disturb her. Satan knows if Eve notices him first, she will be even more bewildered and fascinated by a serpent traveling on his rear. When Eve finally does notice the
Example, there is a point Casca talks about how the night is fearsome. This was the night to which Caesar was gathering plotters. There was a strange appearance of nocturnal birds around the market place. It was strange because the birds appeared at high noon, a sign of bad happening about to occur. Calphurnia hence warns Caesar not to go to the capital because the birds gave her an impression of war. (Reynolds, Robert C, 2000) Another superstition involving birds is also observed when Caesar accepts