Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religion + Science
- A Doll's House
- Suggestion that Religion is
just another patriarchal
institution established to
make women second class
citizens
- "Can you neglect your most sacred
duties?" (Torvald tries to use
religion as a means to control Nora)
- Introduces idea of PERSONAL
FAITH - presented as positive
concept as it is something she
starts to question as she grows
emotionally
- 'I want to find out if what Pastor
Hansen said was right - or
whether it's right for me.'
- Hard Times - Dickens
- Criticism of hardline
interpretations of
Christianity
- 'the barbarous jangling of
bells that was driving the
sick and nervous mad.'
- 'petitioning for acts of parliament
that should make these people
religious by main force'
- Suggests Capitalism is
replacing religion
- what you couldn't ... show
to be purchasable in the
cheapest marketable and
salable in the dearest was
not, and never should be,
world without end, Amen.'
- The CORRECT
interpretation of
religion demonstrated
by the working classes
- "It ha' shined into my mind ...
till the muddle in my mind
have cleared away." (The star
that provides guidance for
Stephen)
- Shirley
- Comment on the proper application of
religion: 'It is always the frailest, the oldest
and the poorest that brave the worst
weather, to prove and maintain their
constancy to dear old Mother church:this
wild and windy morning not one affluent
family attended ... all lined and cushioned
pews were empty; only on the bare oaken
seats sat ranged the grey-haired elders
and feeble paupers.'
- Shirley demonstrates the proper application of
religion towards her cook: :She wronged me again
and again, and again and again I forgave her.Now
she loves me and wouldn't defraud me of a pin."
- Shirley expresses the idea of personal
faith: "I walk by another creed, light faith and
hope than you." Describes herself as "an
infidel to your religion; an atheist to your
God." Describes Mr Sympson's
interpretation of religion as "small meddling"
and "petty tyranny."
- Criticism of
curates
- 'The white
surplus covers a
multitude of sins.'
- Malone and Donne
criticised for their 'silly
narrow jealousies' their
'insolent carriage to the
poor' and 'base servility
to the rich'
- The Strange
Case of Dr Jeckyll
and Mr Hyde
- Hyde
described with
animal-like
characteristics
- 'snarled aloud
into a savage
laugh.'
- 'ape-like fury'
(instinctive human
emotion)
- 'the creature'
- Scientific experimentation
illustrated as dangerous -
Hyde's actions get gradually
worse/Jekyll loses control of
transformations
- God's creation isn't perfect - the
evil of Hyde accepted as an
integral part of Jekyll's character:
'insurgent horror ... lay caged in his
flesh'
- Jekyll seen to
recognise the
"thorough and
primitive duality of
men."
- Hyde associated with
the backdoor of the
house - linked too his
disreputable nature as
this door would have
been linked with trade
with 'body snatchers'