Compare And Contrast Paulician And Candide

Therefore, God must exist so that the definition would be true. Anselm’s argument is based on this known definition of the concept of God alone. Descartes’ argument for the existence of God is based on his foundation of knowledge, logic. Humans have the idea in their minds of infinite perfection. Humans also have the idea of themselves as inferior to this idea as imperfect.

They were hired to take Buttercup across the Florin Channel to the neighboring country of Guilder to kill her. This would then provide the Prince with the perfect excuse to start a war with Guilder. The plan was ruined, however, when a mysterious man dressed entirely in black defeated the Sicilian Crowd and saved Buttercup. Soon after this, the mysterious stranger revealed to Buttercup that he was actually Westley, Buttercup’s true love who she thought died three years earlier. Now united with Buttercup, Westley was forced to evade the Prince and his men.

“Desiree’s Baby” is a twisted and heart wrenching story that takes place during a time of great racial inequality. The Devil seems to be very busy throughout the world as he escalates situations and spews lies into the thoughts of men, tearing them from their beloved families. The story “Desiree’s Baby” summons up a very saddening irony that the prejudiced Armand learns that it was his mixed parentage and not that of his wife which produced their mixed-race child whom he detested and rejected. Desiree’s child brings both Desiree and Armand together in love. Desiree’s baby in the story plays a crucial part in Armand’s life for the few months they were together.

Endovier is a slave town where rebels and enemies are sent to work as slaves until they die. Dorian too is disgusted by his father’s actions and soon realizes that he has to work up the courage to tell his father to put a stop to this madness. The fight for freedom plays a major role throughout the

The first being the dissolution of his marriage, and later the knowledge that he was in fact at fault for the change. At the end of the story as he is divesting himself of Desiree’s belongings, he comes across a letter from his own deceased mother which reads,” night and day, I than good God for having arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery” (Chopin), which brings him to his epiphany. The fact that he did not know could be because of his parents’ choice to raise him abroad where the stigma of slavery did not exist. Maybe she was light skinned enough that she could pass for a white woman. We may never know how this accomplishment was carried out, but it is evident that Armand now knew, that although his son was bi-racial, it was his lineage, not Desiree’s, at fault.

If God exists and has the capability to be powerful, good, omniscient and omnipotent, why would he let evil be perpetrated? Is a God unable to suppress the evil or does he have no solution to problem of evil? The thesis posited by Mackie that evil exists and there is no God to stop the evil is still relevant to today. We still have wars, incurable diseases and struggles on this planet.

Do you feel sorry for him or does he get what he deserves? What does it tell you about how upper class southerners treated slaves? The preacher is the least sympathetic character in the entire story. He literally has no redeeming value as a human being, though he does provide value as a plot device. We first meet him when he is trying to kill a woman he has gotten pregnant.

He is conditioned to use violence when he does not get what he wants, like most slave owners in the Antebellum south. Kevin and Dana discuss what needs to be done with Rufus and Dana explains the forms of punishments she and other slaves receive: “Sent me to the field, had me beaten, made me spend nearly eight months sleeping on the floor of his mother’s room, sold people … He’s done plenty, but the worst of it was to other people” (245). Butler uses diction and characterization of Rufus to exploit how men are immature when power hungry. He contains a lot of power over many human lives, slaves. He abuses his power when he simply wants.

Similarly to Gertrude, Mrs. French “looks upon her husband as unfaithful, and regards [Clotel] as a rival”(n.p). Clotel’s beauty is now a curse and with her long, wavy, black hair serving as a symbol of “exotic” beauty, her mistress orders her to cut it off. Still “handsome,” with the help of a male slave at her new master’s plantation, she decides to pass as a southern gentleman to rescue her daughter, Mary, that she left behind as a servant in her own father’s home. Her ability to pass as an Italian gentleman serves a device to show how the mulatto was able to disguise him or herself and navigate freely through American society, thus shattering the basis of what race stands. When the Nat Turner revolts takes place, suspicious people are searched and Clotel is detected, not because of skin color, but because her suitcase only contains women’s clothing.

These religious references build upon each other to develop Burgess’ notion that God created humans with free will, and how this leaves humankind flawed and prone to evil tendences. Though, despite this, humanity’s free will is the most important thing to both God and humanity itself. Burgess sees humans as beings