Rizal Analysis

had to wear some old shoes that he had at home. Gold did not like this

“After the prisoners had processed through the streets to the square, mass was celebrated, and they then went up on to the scaffold and read out their sins. Their punishments were pronounced, after

things at the people locked up in the Pillory. The pillory was used more as a humiliation

Here the tales speak of the abuses of the church and clergy by explaining that the clergy “tell a hundred or more false stories.” Due to the printing press in the 1520’s the message read to a wider audience gaining much support from the laity who also criticised the clergy.

1. “The Requirement offers limited options—either accept Christian superiority voluntarily or we will impose submission at the point of a sword or harquebus” (pp. 71).

A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back. For a brief moment I hesitated, I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied. I reapproached the wall. I replied to the yells of him who clamoured. I re-echoed — I aided — I surpassed them in volume and in strength. I did this, and the clamourer grew

This confession is not only informative for the reader about the religious community and the effect of religion in Spain within the 15th century, but it also allows the reader to use critical thinking and be observant to the deceiving forms Teresa used for this “confession” to be

... of their own tribe who had not been captured and interned at Bosque Redondo.

Officer:  The church is now empty, my Lord.  The Bishop and his clergy await your Highness' good pleasure.

The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-with a smile -only somewhat bewildered.

Voltaire directs this example of the Church, as it was an officer of the Inquisition who was responsible for the sentencing. The inanity of the whole situation, as well as the completely unnecessary drastic results that it had, makes the Church appear to be an authority that is unreliable to make sensible decisions, or rule over people. This irrationality is again portrayed through Pangloss and the Reverend Father. The Reverend Father bathed in front of a Musselman, unknowing “that it was a major crime for a Christian to be found naked” (105) with one, and ended up being tried for it. Pangloss was similarly tried, because he took too long to give a girl back the flowers that she had dropped. Both of these men, as a result of committing these simple wrongdoings, are beaten and forced into slavery, destined to spend the rest of their days as galley slaves. The crimes themselves were so small and nonsensical that the fact that they were punished at all, much less so harshly for them, is unjustifiable. Voltaire uses the unfairness and utter ludicrousness of the situation to challenge whether government should be trusted with the fate of its people. Voltaire accentuates traditional authority’s ignorance.

As a church, we have collectively decided that God has waited too long to take a course of action, as the world has escalated into pure madness, and will do His work with our hands. We have spent much too long picketing soldiers and fags funerals, and must move into the second phase of our ultimate goal; to see every last one of you burn in hell. No longer will we just make you incredibly uncomfortable while you’re mourning your loved ones deaths, we will actually open fire into the crowd of people paying their respects.

The analysis of the aria “Lascia ch'io pianga” by Haendel according to the thorough bass method, shows us how the composer refer in this piece to the typical compositional procedures of baroque music.

Luther: The honor that we hold of truth and righteousness is in the person who we believe and look up too. It’s an insult to

Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, published in 1796, depicts the Catholic Church in Madrid as the victim of religious perversion caused by the pride and lust of its leaders. The events of the novel, including the monk Ambrosio’s surrender to temptation, leading to the rape and murder of innocent Antonia, as well as Agnes’s imprisonment by the vain Prioress of St. Clare’s Convent, serve to emphasize the lack of true religious devotion in the city of Madrid. However, despite the shocking events of the novel, the city had already fallen prey to temptation, and had ultimately strayed from the path of the Church long before these new atrocities took place.