In Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, the year is 2031, nearly two decades after scientists, in an attempt to counteract global warming, cause an ice age that inevitably annihilates all lives barring a few. The survivors are those who, ticketed or as stowaways boarded the Snowpiercer: a train that travels in perpetual motion. The cause of the ice-age resulted from scientists spraying an amorphous CW7 chemical into the air to slow climate change. Found in the Snowpiercer is a class system that separates the rich from the poor by train compartment. Found in the very front section is Wilford, the engine driver and the creator of the train. For much of the movie, he is unseen by most people except for Minister Mason, the middleman for Wilford, who delivers his message to the tail sectioners. In the film, the director uses Christianity to portray Wilford as a savior, Minister Mason as his messenger, and the people …show more content…
In this film, Joon-ho delineates in evocative detail a recurring theme of the Christian Religion by depicting Wilford, as a God figure of the sacred engine, and in doing so, he actively portrays a reading of Christianity as dehumanizing and authoritarian.
Incorporating a well-known Biblical story in his film, director Bong Joon-ho utilizes an “ark” metaphor to symbolize the story of Noah’s Ark and the great flood. In the opening scene of Snowpiercer, the film exhibits in writing “The Precious Few who boarded the Rattling Ark are humanity’s last survivors” (00:03:45). In doing so, the author sets up a comparison between Noah saving the animals from the great flood and Wilford saving humanity’s last survivors from the ice age (NIV, Genesis 8:16:17). In both scenarios, that is the train and Noah’s ark, we see an omniscient entity that causes the catastrophe in the first place. Although Wilford took so many people on his train, he is not willing
The author's experiences during the holocaust weaken his faith in God and ultimately leads to an act of rebellion against Him. As a young child, the author had a strong desire to learn about God, His ways, and how He influences mankind. However, life in the camp begins to make the author question his faith. “Some of the
Ever wonder what would happen if an apocalypse were to occur and all life seized to exist? The movie Snowpiercer is about a class system society that lives on a train which travels around the globe. The people who lived strive to survive after the apocalypse caused by CW7, which froze the world. Throughout the movie we watch the tail of the train or Tail Sectioners, which is the lower class of the system revolt against the hierarchy of the train. The Tail Sectioners struggle to make it to the front of the train or the sacred engine so they can kill Wilford the conductor as well as take over the train.
The Missing Ark: Analysis of Loss in “Destroyed by the Waters” by Rachel Swirsky Derek saying, "You can't even tell anything was here", is how Swirsky immediately introduces him as a character dealing with loss in “Destroyed by the Waters”(1). “How to cope with loss?”, is a question thematically seen after reading the short story, and is prevalent as a fundamental question concerning life, in many texts, notably the Christian Bible. The Bible shares similarities with the short story, and is alluded to after Zack and Derek’s son, Noah is mentioned. The allusions of the Bible in “Destroyed by the Waters”, aid in answering the fundamental question of “How to cope with loss?”, and retell a realistic“Noah’s Ark”.
Religion was the main driving force throughout the entire period of European colonization of America. Most Europeans were motivated by desire for wealth, land, economic opportunity, and religious freedom. The First Great Awakening, although a religious revolution, had a huge impact on the class and colonial politics. This revolution helped formed a unity among colonists, allowed religious pluralism, and started the notion of state rule as a contract with the people. However, the downside of this revolution is that it combines religion and government together as well as created a fear and hatred of Catholicism.
The First Great Awakening was a religious movement that took place between 1720 and 1750, affecting every colony and greatly affecting history. People started feeling that religion was dull and not as important as it once was seen. Preachers began to fill like people were not putting their emotions on their faith. They wanted people to be physically and emotionally involved. This is where Chrtians began to turn away from the standard approach of worship.
“Fred volunteered to go scouting. If he could find the bridge, he’d clear a path and then come back for the others. Fred was gone for half an hour while the rest of them stood around the dying fire” (Laskin 161). This action shows selflessness very well because Fred could have easily stayed behind and had someone else do the job instead, but instead he immediately volunteers to go into a storm that he could get lost and die in within minutes of exposure. In fact, Fred actually withstood the storm longer than he had to.
In another encounter, David and one of the agents, Thompson, discuss free-will. Thompson explains that one’s free-will must occasionally be disrupted in order to stay on their plan. It is unclear just who the chairman is, but what is clear, is that the chairman is ultimately in control of the agents and each plan for each person. The last example of references to religious or worldview beliefs is the actions of the characters. When David and Elise attempt to reach the chairman, they go up multiple flights of stairs.
Using movies as a way of teaching a specific time period is an entertaining but often fictitious method to education. Especially, when Hollywood blockbusters like Gladiator (2000) are involved. However, some Hollywood pictures that do a sufficient job of showcasing a time in history. Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, also starring Russell Crowe, is a rarity in the world of historical fiction film. While it is still not 100% factual, it does do a fantastic job of featuring the atmosphere of the early 1930’s.
The theology and religion Druid was created in the 2nd century by the Romans. Druidism or Druidry is considered to be a spiritual path for most of its followers and a way of life for some. Each member of the religion has different but common beliefs that they follow. The spiritual nature of life is a key belief to the Druids and some strive to find the source of spiritual life. Nature and afterlife also performs an important part in the Druids’ understanding of life.
Set in a not-so-distant, yet post-apocalyptic future, Snowpiercer follows Curtis Everett, a lower-class man rebelling against an indomitable ideological regime, as humanity 's last survivors circle the frozen globe, divided by class, in one, long train. The world of Snowpiercer is built upon a society in which inequality reigns and violence is routine, and where the needs of the poor are eschewed in favor of the desires of the rich. Director Bong Joon-Ho adeptly weaves black humor with fast-paced dramatic action, and utilizes the Marxist concepts of hegemony, interpellation, and commodity as spectacle, in order to paint a cautionary picture of a continuously capitalist future. The State in Snowpiercer relies upon a deeply entrenched ruling ideology that can be summed up by Minister Mason 's 7-Minute speech beginning with "This is not a shoe."
A twelve year old boy a world away from his parents once wrote in a letter to his parents: “And I have nothing to comfort me, nor is there nothing to be gotten here but sickness and death.” This child was Richard Frethorne, and in “Letter to Father and Mother,” he communicates his desperation caused by the new world’s merciless environment to his parents to persuade them to send food and pay off his accumulated debts from the journey. He accomplishes this with deliberate word choice and allusions to the bible to appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos. Frethorne uses diction, imagery, and facts to create a letter to his parents which aims to garner sympathy for his state of life and to persuade them to send food and pay off his debts.
E.K. Hornbeck writes for the Baltimore Herald as a journalist. He travels to the small town of Hillsboro to write a paper about Cates’s trial. Hornbeck criticizes the residents of Hillsboro for their fundamentalist belief toward religion. He does not listen to other people’s perspective and ridicules people who do not have the same opinion as he does. Hornbeck stands firm in his viewpoints throughout the entire play of Inherit the Wind.
Explore Gaston as a Christ-like figure in Shusaku Endo’s Wonderful Fool In the novel Wonderful Fool, Shusaku Endo draws a clear parallel between Jesus Christ in the Bible and Gaston Bonaparte, the protagonist. Throughout the novel, Endo illustrates Gaston’s pilgrimage in Japan and highlights his Christ-like characteristics through strange encounters, such as those with the stray mongrel, the Higaki siblings and Endo the killer. The four aspects of Gaston that resembles that of Christ; compassion for the weak, source of epiphany, transcendental nature and redemptive quality are revealed in these encounters, and in describing them Endo employs various literary devices, most noticeably symbolism. Gaston’s particular attachment to the dog can thus be seen as a direct reflection of compassion Christ had for the weak.
Shakespeare had lived during the Renaissance, which had brought about a spur of new ideas to form. These ideas included religion, which was a volatile subject to go against. Shakespeare had taken the reigns of the Renaissance in the field of literature, producing revolutionary works. What was so surprising about his writings is that while nobody wanted to write things that went against basic religion, he did in some of his works, and although it is unsure what denominations he was, historians agree that he was a Christian. His views of Christianity, however, often shifted depending on the mood of his plays, mainly between positive views during comedies and negative views during tragedies, along with the combination of ancient religions being common.
Different Religions in Viking Society In the viking age, there were many religions over time. Everyone who lived in Viking Age society believed in the Norse gods and goddesses. But, Scandinavia in the Viking Age, had a very dramatic religious change. Norse Religion The Vikings had many gods; Odin, Frøya, etc.