A discussion of witchcraft in Nathaniel's Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter from the classical and Biblical perspective that Hawthorne would have been most familiar with.
The common understanding of what a ghost was in Shakespeare's time demonstrates that Hamlet is, in W. H. Auden's words, a "Christian tragic hero."
One of the most remarkable prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures points to the coming of the Messiah to the city of Jerusalem to the very day.
A translation of the original police document as transcribed by Jacques Peuchet. Alexandre Dumas came across this account, and it gave him many of the remarkable scenes and overall plot for a good part of The Count of Monte Cristo.For more material on The Count of Monte Cristo, including another police record from Peuchet and an important missing chapter, click here.
Echoes of death and rebirth as Ishmael grows in wisdom in Moby Dick to write his own "new testament."
To understand Father Purdon's Sermon in Joyce's short story "Grace" from Dubliners, it helps to understand the sermon text, how he alters the meaning, and ultimately what that means to Kernan and Joyce.
The Beak of the Finch purports to show "evolution in our time," but the evidence it presents shows precisely the opposite. Its logical fallacies and historical inaccuracies demonstrate how desperate the dogma of evolution is.
Camus' The Stranger and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich both portray prisoners coming to terms with the injustices of life. In both works life is a prison. Their opposite responses reflect the two predominant Western world views of the twentieth century and share something of the relationship beween hope and human character
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