Theme Of Hyperbole In The Parable

“There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (The Bible, Prov. 16:25). Thoughts that come to men stem from their participation in society or their natural state of good and evil. However, society’s morals mask the natural man—who is more vulnerable to natural evil than good. Because of this, every man is susceptible to ignorance and savagery. William Golding exemplifies this idea in his novel Lord of the Flies. When a group of military boys find themselves stranded on a deserted island, their ignorance soon leads to the inevitable savagery present in the end of the novel. The maturation process of Ralph illustrates the fight between man’s tendencies of natural evil and natural good when morals

What if you were the Jew who were forced to leave their homes and their belongings behind? To work at the point of exhaustion, to wear the same thing year long, to see many people die in front of your own eyes. How would you feel? This is what was plaguing the Jews, during the war because Nazis targeted the Jews’ humanity, and slowly dehumanized them. The Nazis dehumanizing the Jews made them not believe in God plus made them give up hope.

In 1951, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play referring to the time in Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. The Salem Witch Trials was a time period when people were being randomly accused of being witches by one another. The people who were accused of being witches had to either give false confessions or were executed in terrible ways. In The Crucible, the accused were sentenced to death by hangings, pressings, died in prison. In the play, nineteen people were hung, about thirteen died in prison, and one died by being pressed. In the play, the author Miller uses many examples of hyperbole and exaggeration as the characters are talking . The author also used imagery to describe the settings in the play. In The Crucible, the author wanted to give us a real life description of how that time period might have been. As the story goes on, we see the craziness of the Salem witch trials and how absurd it was.

In the book of Jonah we see the vast amount of tension between both God and Jonah. He is one of the prophets who also believes in tolerance of non-Jews opposite to Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s stress of an unadulterated blood race of Jews under a restrictive Jewish God. Jonah is one of a vast line of important people in the bible who argues with God. As you see in past books of the bible everyone has stood their own against the Lord. Jonah though decides to try and run from God. The Lord called to Jonah and said “Arise, go to Ninevah, that great city, and cry against it,” but Jonah flees to Joppa, setting sail on a ship duty-bound for Tarshish, assuming he can evade the Lord. Jonah views the Lord as sort of a indigenous God of restrained power that his hand would not reach as

Using effective rhetoric, the minister's attitude shows reverence of God and submission to his strength, causing the parishioners to feel similarly. The minister emphasizes how as one’s guilt increases, the “floods of God’s vengeance” also grow to greater strength. The term is a metaphor. Edward’s tone is passionate; hence, the purpose is to give visual meaning to God’s fury to allow the audience to be impacted more by Edward's attitude. Additionally, God’s power is “ten thousand times greater” than a mere mortal, and nothing is able to withstand the pure strength of it. The term here is repetition. The tone is almost ridiculing and mocking of anyone who thinks they have the right to go against God’s will, and this attitude is reflected in the rhetoric. The purpose is to persuade listeners to not challenge, but be fearful of God, for they are inconsequential. God’s wrath is further compared to the “bow of God” which is always ready to be released and to kill. The term is conceit, and the tone is damming and passionate; furthermore, the purpose is to compare God to an image with a powerful message to the parishioners that causes dread.

Jonah was given the task of delivering God’s message of impending judgment to a society that Jonah despised.

In addition to hyperbole being used, many examples of allusion were used. Allusion means to call something to mind without making it specifically clear or can be indirect or passing reference. One allusion in the play refers to a biblical story. “Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel”(Miller 55). Elizabeth Proctor says this because during this time Abigail Williams a leader for the young girls of the town. The quote refers to when Moses parted the sea for the israelites would escape from Pharaoh's army. This shows that Abigail seems to have a lot of influence in the town. Another great example of allusion in The Crucible is in the courtroom when John Proctor wants to help

27. He alludes to the bible into the story of Jonah in the old testament as like in the narrator he is misled and he has to find the right way to fulfill the tasks that god has given him. The part when the character gets lost is referring to the bible as when Jonah gets misled in his task and doesn’t complete them as the narrator didn't complete his task to find the men's housing but had to find help to get him on the right path.

In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, there is a character by the name of Ralph. Ralph, the oldest of them all is introduced in the very beginning of the story. The story takes place on an uninhabited island. On this island are a bunch of boys whose plane had crashed. There are no women or adults, the oldest one is twelve and few months and therefore, is declared leader. They have to work together each with an assigned job to survive. The fact that Ralph is the leader, causes him to have to give a lot speeches to the group he uses logos and ethos well. In chapter 5 of the the book, “Beast from Water” These techniques cause him to persuade the boys better although, he would be more persuasive if he used all of the techniques. Using ethos, pathos and logos together makes an argument strong.

Sarah Vowell’s use of hyperbole in her essay helped develop her humorous tone; the exaggerations presented aided the audience in capturing an image of the relationship Vowell and her father had. One example was in the introductory paragraph: “You could have looked at the Democratic campaign poster in the upstairs window and the Republican one in the downstairs window and seen our home for the Civil War battleground it was.” This is an example of hyperbole because Vowell’s home is not literally a war battleground; instead it feels as if it were because of the tensions her and her father’s believes have created. Another example was presented in paragraph seven, a statement vaguely similar to the first: “Our home was partitioned off into territories.” Again, Vowell’s home is not literally separated; her home has a figurative barrier that her and her father’s believes have created. These exaggerations help create an image for the reader to understand the tensions between father and daughter.

When carefully developed, biblical allusions can have a crucial impact on a story. O’Conner quickely establishes biblical allusions to set up a cynical undertone to develope her story. Shiftlet is given the option to choose between good and

To truly comprehend a biblical passage, it is important to have knowledge of the ‘hermeneutics which enables an understanding of the locus of meaning and the principles of bible interpretation’ . The audience needs to have a clear interpretation of the biblical passage which includes ‘content and unity of the whole of Scripture if the meaning of the sacred texts is to be correctly worked out’ , this supports the argument that all worlds of the text are equally important. ‘Biblical passages are often taken out of context and interpreted to support a particular viewpoint of justify a particular action’ . It is imperative to note that ‘in order to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their

God called Jonah to “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry aginst it; for their wickedness is come up before me.” (Jon 1:2) Jonah fled Gods calling to Tarshish. During his escape a great storm came upon the boat that he was on. So the crew cast him into the sea where “the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” In Matthew 12:40 Jesus refrences this as “Jonah being in a whales belly for three days.” While in the belly of the fish Jonah prayed to God to let him out. “the Lord spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land”.(Jon 2:10) Jonah then went to Ninevah “and cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”( Jon 3:4). Ninevah repented and turned back to God and he showed mercy. Jonah was still angry because God showed this savage nation mercy. God then explained to Jonah that everyone needs mercy even your greatest

Bolin, Thomas M. “Should i Not Also Pity Nineveh? Divine Freedom in the Book of Jonah.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament no. 67 (1995): 109-20.

We often read stories in the Bible without taking the historical context into consideration. As a result, we become unaware of the story’s historical validity. In some cases, stories are used to share a moral concept, or used as a tool to teach a lesson. The Book of Jonah is an example that will be used to determine if this particular story describes an accurate recount of history, or if it teaches the readers a lesson. In the Book of Jonah, Jonah (the prophet) is instructed to go to a pagan city (Nineveh) to preach to the Ninevites, hoping that they will repent for their sins. However, he challenges God and travels to Tarshish instead. Jonah receives consequences for his actions and Nineveh is eventually forgiven by God. Although the