The Satanic Verses, Truth And Falsity

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he loses faith in God. ¨But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises¨ (Wiesel 69). Wiesel is losing faith in God and not believing in him. Wiesel believes that he could still pray for God, even though he thinks God does not answer his prayers. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are losing faith in God and disbelief.

In Night Wiesel struggles with his religion through the genocide process of the Jews, instituted by the Nazis. Though Wiesel loses his faith in God, he does not however stop believing in God. He loses faith that God is an all loving God. This is demonstrated when Wiesel says, “I was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). An incident in Night where Wiesel also demonstrates that God is not the all-loving God he ounce thought is when a young boy is strangled on the gallows, and a group of Jews are lined up to watch as the boy struggles between life and death for more than half an hour. When a man had asked, “Where is God” (65)? Someone answered, “Where He is? This is where, hanging here from this gallows” (65). In that moment, the God whom Wiesel adored and his

demon, Screwtape, addressed to his nephew, Wormwood. Wormwood is assigned his first “patient” and it is his skilled Uncle Screwtape’s job to help him through the process. A patient is the demon’s human that they are assigned to keep away from God and to constantly face with temptation. Screwtape receives reports from Wormwood each week and then responds with advice and techniques. Screwtape highlights many different ways to keep us from following God, especially with limiting our understanding of “real” to mean only the material (23). In other words, demons don’t want us to think about the spiritual world around us, only about real materials lacking the meaning of the purpose of life so that we don’t ask questions about what will happen to us after death.

In every religion, the holy text or the preachers ask that their worshippers believe in some form of God. Most people can blindly pursue and believe in God without question, without inquisition. Then there are those who cannot aimlessly worship a possibly fictional God. The struggle comes when there is no validation, no confirmation, of God or anything that He ever did. During the Holocaust, an estimated six million Jews struggle with their faith in every concentration camp, including Elie Wiesel. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, diction, and characterization to expose his internal battle with believing in his faith and seeing the others battle with their faith as well.

they must also overcome the spiritual battle: abandoning the attitudes of doubt and despair, in order

Imagine about 1.5 million of kids killed in the holocaust and up to 6 millions Jews died. The people in the holocaust has to question their faith of all the apprehension that made people grip on their faith in their crisis. Many Jewish people in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel had seen and been through the shocking horrors that shaken their faith. In the book people tried to survive the chamber while maintaining their faith. Shocking events that are currently happening in today's society that made people struggle to maintain faith they once had because of an act of violence, war, and death. In the book Night the theme “struggle to maintain faith” is admissible in today society.

Throughout the story, the Misfit is constantly in denial about the existence of God, the resurrection of Jesus, and the necessity of

In the deconstruction, the relationship between the signifier and the signified, is said to be arbitrary. In this sense, the theory of deconstruction is applicable to this novel where many signifiers have many meanings. For example; If Jesus-christ, the central figure of Christian faith, is taken to be the signifier then people‘s faith in the divinity of Jesus can be considered as the signified. The novel questions the relation between the signifier and the signified and adds a newsignified, in other words, in the novel, Jesus is pictured as divine creature, and that threatened the unity of Christianity, unhappy he took profit of Jesus's explosive reputation, and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, since he was betting

If God could have made the world without evil and suffering, why is the world full of evil and suffering? This is the question The Quarrel raises in terms of the Holocaust. According to Webster’s dictionary, quarrel implies a heated, verbal dispute typically between two friends. The two friends in The Quarrel, Chaim, an agnostic writer, and Hersh, a rabbi, become caught up in a quarrel as to why such a good God could allow such evil to be present in the world. This essay will discuss the unexplainable evil that threatens our sense of meaning and purpose by exploring the major issues of theodicies and anti-theodicies in The Quarrel. Exploring these theodicies and anti-theodicies is important in understanding why evil exists rather than explaining the science behind what causes evil.

Additionally, Levee’s mention of the “devil who's looking to buy up souls” is a clear example of the underlying themes of religion within the

“‘Faith! Faith!’ cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!’” (Hawthorne 1297) These were the words expressed by Young Goodman Brown during the evil baptisms. Whether Goodman Brown was speaking to himself or his pleasant wife Faith, it is easily seen that there is a definite need of Faith and God to be saved from the “Wicked One”.

When one experiences that he cannot tolerate, he doubts his religion and his God's existence. Elie Wiesel's Night, a memoir of the author's experience of the Holocaust, shows that this hypothesis was true. In contrast to the beginning where Elie Wiesel considered praying as an unquestionable action, throughout his memoir, his faith in God gradually vanished as he experienced the "Hell". Elie Wiesel confided his change of the faith in God by the usage of dialogue, repetition, and irony.

Dan Brown's 2003 book "The Da Vinci Code" generated much controversy and inspired numerous individuals by providing them with facts that (even though difficult to verify) seemed especially realistic. Ron Howard's film based on the book further contributed to confusing people and actually influenced many in thinking that society lives in a lie while persons who actually know the truth pose in exemplary members of the social order (Abanes 5) Both works have had a severe impact on me because, as almost anyone, I immediately became captivated by the clever storyline and practically started to hope that at least some of the information I came across were true. It would actually be absurd for someone to claim that both the book and the motion picture have not caused uproar in the Christian world and in society as a whole as a result of making people feel that they need to get actively involved in finding out more about conspiracy theories.

Another important theme that is consistent in the “Signs of the unseen” is the annihilation of the ego as the only path to enlightenment and love. Rumi says that “With God, there is no room for two egos”. In order to become a true follower, one has to give up his ego and subject himself to God. Rumi’s writing style is such that he provides multiple anecdotes along with a concept to enhance comprehension and perception. In this particular case, he puts forth the example of the inability of two birds to fly when they are tied together. However, if a dead bird is tied to a living one, it will be able to fly since there is no duality. Likewise, man cannot attain eternal love and spiritual satisfaction unless he gives up his ego to follow the commands of the God whole heartedly. It is the ego that prevented Satan from appreciating God’s

A world was in turmoil, in confusion, in disarray. The sick littered the streets and the deceased rotted on the pavement. Most would agree, to join them was a blessing. Plunged into a world of terror we had lost our sanity. We were looking at a horror movie in first person, a dystopian novel where no-one could think. The veil between imagination, reality and technology had been removed. Imagination, we now realised, was never ours to control. The remote to reality had been turned over to Lucifer, and he was enraged “Just because something is happening in your head, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.” A while ago that quote would have been laughed at. Now, if anyone was sane enough to read it, it would not be a laughing matter. It all started with a dream, a dream that turned into a nightmare; a nightmare that became reality, or what was left of it. And this dream, I set it into action. Anyway, that was what I was told.