Religion & Science
Quotations and their analysis on the topic of Science and Religion for the context part of the exam.
- Created by: R_S_E
- Created on: 11-04-14 09:36
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- Religion & Science
- PROSE
- Tess
- After
the **** she walks outside alone surrounded by “a cloud of moral
hobgoblins.”
- Metaphor = she is being judged for having sinned
- Judges are fictitious giving them an insubstantial air = Hardy believes they are wrong?
- During
her time in Flintecomb Ash (the sky is )“A white
vacuity of countenance”
- Emptiness = no God / any one watching over Tess
- Hardy stresses his agnostic nature
- After
the **** she walks outside alone surrounded by “a cloud of moral
hobgoblins.”
- Darwin, Conclusion
- “Progress towards
perfection”
- Alliteration emphasising the religious belief that God made everything individually which was being doubted
- Pro-science: plosive sounds to suggest action/firmness of belief
- “Progress towards
perfection”
- The Picture of
Dorian Gray (end of Victorian era)
- "Religion?" / "The fashionable substitute for belief"
- Duchess Gladys asks and Lord Henry replies (series of frivolous answers)
- Treats religion frivolously = declining deference
- "Religion?" / "The fashionable substitute for belief"
- Tess
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- Hester: ‘God’s only law is love’
- Different view on God - more benevolent than judgemental
- Lord Illingworth’s epigram: “every saint has a
past, and every sinner has a future”
- Even saints have bad pasts like sinners
- Sinners can be saints in the future
- Every person had done Bad, but it does not mean the Bad can't be Good.
- Even saints have bad pasts like sinners
- Every person had done Bad, but it does not mean the Bad can't be Good.
- Hester: ‘God’s only law is love’
- AWoNI
- POETRY
-
Arnold, Dover
Beach
- “The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round
earth’s shore”
- Mix of enjambment and caesura reflect the tide or doubt, metaphor for how the sea (like Faith) used to surround the Earth
- “Where ignorant armies clash by night”
- Metaphor conflict (literal/arguing over existence of God/relationships
- “The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round
earth’s shore”
- Alfred Lord
Tennyson, In Memoriam
- “An infant crying in the night: / An infant
crying for the light: And with no language but a cry”
- Parallel phrasing and metaphor of being an infant in the darkness of not knowing anything and crying out for faith
- “Stood up and
answer’d ‘I have felt’”
- Direct speech = reconnection with God and religion
- “An infant crying in the night: / An infant
crying for the light: And with no language but a cry”
-
Arnold, Dover
Beach
- PROSE
- “Progress towards
perfection”
- Alliteration emphasising the religious belief that God made everything individually which was being doubted
- Pro-science: plosive sounds to suggest action/firmness of belief
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