Unsolved Mysteries

place but to hold fast clergy doctrine, begrudged to wait out their bondage by conception until release by cessation. As a diversion from daily ails and renew religious fervor, guilds present mystery plays, bible-based skits determined to capture an audience from hardened, uneducated workers. In the mystery play, The Second Shepherds' Play, The Wakefield Master proclaims in three variations the qualities of Christ to analyze and critique traditional class hierarchy, thereby challenging early Britain's

Cain’s Jealousy of Abel Cain in Genesis 4:1-2 was the first son of Adam and Eve and the elder brother of Abel. Cain and Abel offered offerings to God and God looked with favor on Abel and offering, but God did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. He became angry and jealous of his brother. He invited his brother out to the field and there he attacked and killed him. Instead of Cain to make amends by offering what would be acceptable to God to secure the favor of God, he compared himself

on the ground. So he decides to go over and check out what happened, soon he found a garden fork sticking out of a dog named Wellington. Since Christopher likes murder mystery novels, he decided to write his own murder mystery novel starting with finding out what happened to Wellington. Throughout his attempt in solving the mystery of the

Analysis of The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon, was not only a detective film, but a film that displayed many different aspects of the female and the male character in the movie. The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of femininity and masculinity. It also brought forth subjects of sexual desires and the greediness of money. The characters and the visual motifs in the film contributed to the developing

Depictions of Saint Sebastian in Visual Art and Music Zeitgeist, a German term often attributed to philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831), literally means “the spirit of the time.” Zeitgeist is founded upon the understanding that a dominant school of thought—be it political, social, philosophical, or other—influences the culture of a specific period in time and that the art and thinking of that period influence one another. Zeitgeist presumes that culture and art are therefore faithfully united, since

Kreena Patel Book Talk For the mystery book talk, I read, “Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters” by Gail Giles. The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The main characters were Sunny Reynolds (14) who was the main detective of the novel, and the younger sister of the dead sister, who died in a fire in New York, but was deeply loved by everyone, Deborah Hallard a girl who looked and pretended to be Jasmine Reynolds (the girl who died), but knew everything about her

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people

Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy

The Role of the Innocent Heroine in Turn of the Screw and Northanger Abbey The function of the innocent heroine in gothic literature is, primarily, to follow her curiosity into the deepest, darkest corners of an appropriate gothic setting, uncover some awful secret contained therein, and do a lot of running around in her nightgown to be saved at the appropriate moment by a strong, capable suitor. In both Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James this trope is challenged

common people: morality plays and mystery plays. A morality play is a didactic, religious, allegorical play that is not explicitly in regards to a biblical story, but rather tells the audience how they should act and how they should think; a morality play is sponsored by a church or religious group. Everyman is a morality play that emerged in the medieval time period, while The Second Shepherd’s Play is a mystery play that existed in the same time period. A mystery play is one that tells a biblical