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Atonement

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The meaning of 'atonement'

• Atonement is the action of making amends for a wrong or a jury.
• In religious context is the reparation for a sin and the reconciliation of God and the mankind through Jesus Christ
• It's the sense of permanent guilt over an action that is irreversable

the element of atonement

- Having to pay the price of the sin: death, self-punishment, isolation - Hell-purgatory-paradise  The divine comedy: Dante Alighieri: Christian and Islamic influences

Hamartia, also called tragic flaw, inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favoured by fortune.

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In literature and Mythology

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-The lead character of Shakespeare's famous play "Macbeth" has a fatal flaw that almost seems like a virtue. He suffers from the flaw of ambition, which leads directly to his becoming named the King of Scotland… but also to his death. When blind ambition leads him to kill innocent people, and ultimately die himself at the hands of MacDuff.

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The legendary hero of Greek mythology was an almost invulnerable warrior with one widely known fatal flaw: the heel that his mother held him by when she dipped him into the river Styx to make him strong. The heel ended up being his undoing. Today an "Achilles' heel" refers to anyone's fatal flaw or hamartia

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Lucifer was jealous of Jesus Christ, who was one with God before Lucifer was created. Lucifer knew that no matter how intelligent or respected he was, God would always choose Jesus Christ over him. His heart was filled with envy and anger. He gathered the other angels in secret and introduced the idea of them worshipping him instead of Jesus. God declared that such rebellion was unforgivable and that Lucifer and his following angels would no longer remain in heaven.

Lucifer

God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is told that he can eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil.. However, a serpent convinces Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. These acts not only give them additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil. God later curses the serpent and the ground. God prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of their sin of disobeying God. Then he banishes them from the Garden of Eden.

Adam & eve: the original sin

The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward, and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven. Allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God (Paradiso).

the divine comedy

The element of forbidden love

The two lovers themselves, Romeo and Juliet, each have their individual flaws which contribute to the drastic outcome of the story. - Romeo is to blame because of his impulsive and arrogant personality. He seems to abandons all common logic and goes to great lengths for his own lusty desires, while falsely convincing himself that fate is the sole power controlling his destiny.- Juliet is to blame because of her excessive belief in fate, and willingness to succumb to her fate. Juliet's tragic flaw is her loyalty to Romeo. This flaw is a good flaw to a point; however, it becomes the reason she dies in the end. She cannot live without Romeo, so she takes her own life so that she'll never love or marry another.

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