Judas Iscariot

Widely regarded as a timeless and classic masterpiece, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey delivers an exciting story that follows the insane stories recounted by Chief Bromden in a mental facility. One must wonder, what factors make Kesey’s work a masterpiece? Thomas Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor gives readers insight about the qualities that make the novel a masterpiece: such as the progressions by characters, the allusions to the Bible, and the deeper…

Church Altarpiece” appear the disciples of Jesus Christ, “Simon (called Peter), his brother Andrew, James (the son of Zebedee), his brother John, Philip, Bartholomew/Nathanael, Matthew, Thomas, James (the son of Alphaeus), Simon (the Zealot), and Judas/Thaddaeus (son of James)” along with…

Instead of a fiery portrayal as in the rest of the circles, the deepest stratum of hell is icy and frozen. In the Ninth Circle of Hell, the sinners are either murderers or traitors, and their punishment reflects their depravity. In Round 3 of the this Circle, the murderers/traitors of guests are encased in ice, all except for half their faces above the ice and their tears creating a frosty layer covering their eyes. These sinners are part of the frozen lake, Cocytus, because their act of…

this system was adequate when the vast majority of the population were illiterate, in the modern age it has rapidly become the target of criticism from the expanding ranks of the educated. As Borges displays in his “Three Versions of Judas”,…

Anne Porter’s famous short story “Flowering Judas” follows a women named Laura who is being courted by a man named Braggioni. The story itself uses symbolic meaning with flowers and religious symbols . With every event taking place in her house the reader feels the isolation with her. in Katherine Anne Porter “Flowering Judas the themes, author styles and literary devices all make the story more enjoyable to read. In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs Reality…

advisers (Bolgia 8), divisive individuals (Bolgia 9) and various falsifiers such as alchemists, perjurers and counterfeits (Bolgia 10). In the very end Dante sees Lucifer in the last circle. In his mouth are the two men who killed Julius caesar and Judas Iscariot. Then they walk through a hole to the other side of the earth and are now out of…

colt, Jesus rode on it into Jerusalem, where people laid their jackets and leafy branches onto the ground to make a path for him and shouted, ‘Hosanna!’ as he passed. While this was happening, the priests were plotting Jesus’s death. Later, Judas Iscariot went to them and said that he would turn…

There is a significant amount of differences between Dante's image of Satan (for example, the three-faced, silent being stuck in ice) and more usual images of Satan (for example, the pitchfork-wielding devil in fire). I choose this topic because I thought the way Dante portrays Satan in Dante’s Inferno was a very interesting and different way than the way Christians and other modern religions portray him. There have many papers and articles written about this that have changed my perspective of…

These are they days dramatically played out (Webber, 1). In the prologue, “Heaven on their minds” brings us in with some groovy tunes and Judah is expressing his ager is what the audience took it about Jesus becoming known for the Messiah. Judah Iscariot was one of the twelve prophets. According to the Gospels, Judah was arrested due to betraying Jesus (Betsworth, 8). In the…

The Inferno is the first part of an epic poem called Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. He narrates as himself going through Hell guided by a poet name Virgil. Together they go through 9 circles of hell which are Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. This is taking place in the year of 1300 during the Easter week. Dante describes in detail each thing he sees as he goes along and gets challenged along the way. To explain the torture of the Inferno that…