... in his little book "Nature" (published in 1836). In "Nature" Emerson takes anthropocentric view, seeing nature as a great and holy teacher of self-reliant man who will look beyond its uses as mere commodity and see it as if used with spirit, with a wonder known to few people. Nature's purpose was clear to Emerson: "All the parts incessantly work into each other ... ...
... guilt brings corrupt souls to the depths of insanity. Unable to be freed by their struggling wills, they are forced to succumb to the torture and anguish and amend their spirit to become aliens of their past. With no recollection of their former being, their prior self ceases to exist and becomes anew. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne inspires the ... depicted by Hawthorne. Although the author portrays the character as weak minded and bodily ill from the omniscient narrator perspective, the vantage point of the Puritan society portrays Dimmesdale as "holy" and "revered" when H...
... the crucifix and the cross have become important symbols of the suffering Savior and the risen Lord. Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the day on which Jesus rose have become holy days. It is believed that Jesus through dying took the responsibility for the sins of the human race, reconciling humankind with God and God with humankind. Those who are Christians ... will come again and judge all the living and the dead and those that have been faithful and good will ascend into heaven. Until that day Christians believe that the Spirit of God lives in them, and guides and strengthens them in t...
