This was the story I chose for my presentation in class.
It was sooooooo IRONIC!! I had no clue what it was about. All I knew was that it was a play(that's the reason I chose it), and it ended up being about the catholic religion.. or at least based on it! AND I'M CATHOLIC!! It made it so much easier to understand the story, and this was the first one I could actually read! The language wasn't so hard.
I love how the author personified all the characters. It kind of added more interest to the play. The play is a morality play.. so it's basically like a sermon at church! It says that we shouldn't be so dependent on physical features or material need because, at the end, all we take to heaven is our soul/spirit. Our bodies stay here and rot along with the rest of our belongings.. unless we give them away.... We should go to confession more often to kind of purify our souls. Confessions are not as easy as it seams... you have to really repent for that(hopefully). Then we are given a penance whether it be pray every night, pray a certain prayer, say sorry to the one's you've hurt, etc. At confession, we see how God is a God of mercy. He forgives as long as you repent and you want to be forgiven, but for all this, you need knowledge! Without knowledge, we wouldn't know what to do, and once our bodies are pure, we have our Good Deeds left with us to help us better ourselves.
But any how....
I loved this story and I'm so glad i chose it for my presentation. I made up a whole game using the character! Except Doctor. I didn't know how to put him into the game. I worked really hard on it and I hope everyone will enjoy it:)
amen, sister! i got the same thing out of it that you did - that we should spend more time working on keeping our souls pure than buying stuff. At, first i kinda wondered what knowledge had to do with our eternal reward but you put it well. We do kinda have to know what's up and how it works before we know what we can work on. thanks sheyla!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked that the author personified characteristics also. It actually helps the reader/viewer to stay focus on the plot/moral of the play more. I wonder if that was the whole reason. I would like to think so. Because if they were just regular characters, they would have flaws and would not be as powerful.
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