Final Essay Prompts

Question 1

What characters concerned with appearances?

Answer 1

Grandmother, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Uncle Andrew “The Magicians Nephew”
Enoch, “Wise Blood”

Question 2

How reliable does eyesight prove?

Answer 2

Reliable as an insight into the minds of characters, unreliable for themselves.
E.x. Hazel Motes, Asa Hawks, Job, covenant with my eyes, Misfit

Question 3

What are manifestations of spiritual poverty?

Answer 3

Hazel Motes, “Wise Blood”
Uncle Andrew and the Witch, “The Magicians Nephew”
Different misfits in Calvary
The Misfit, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Question 4

How effective is psychology at explaining people, can it explain everything?

Answer 4

Misfit, insane, arguably not spiritual yet still seems to have a way out
Enoch, animal instincts, pull towards psycho, includes supernatural
Life is layered. Spiritual Bedrock

Question 5

What other characters pray and to what end? Repentance, forgiveness, agape?

Answer 5

Hazel does.

Question 6

What is the point of living?

Answer 6

Misfit- lack of belief of anything
Hazel- to atone for everything that he’s done
Jadis- gain power
Digory, Polly- discover, help

Question 7

Where do we find anagogical moments (physical world has spiritual significance)?

Answer 7

Temple of the Holy Ghost, dream state.
Everything in the Magician’s Nephew
Life is Layered Model

Question 8

Are you emerging traumatized or broken?

Answer 8

Both
Misfit
Paranonia
The Magician’s Nephew

Question 9

Do the Works Critique the Mistreatment of Female Characters?

Answer 9

Polly, the Magicians Nephew
Women Talking
A Lover’s Quarrel
Sonnet 30

Question 9

Dante Heirarchy of sin or no?

Answer 9

No, many seem the same punishment.
Matthew 18 (unmerciful servant) doesn’t clarify

Question 10

Do we need divine intervention?

Answer 10

Dali, no. Humans benefit from it but ultimately their condition finds beauty in its own.
O’Connor, yes. We need it.

Question 11

Do authors allow us to interpret or no?

Answer 11

There are many open ended, pushed in a certain direction. Women Talking

Question 12

Characters Embody Forgiveness

Answer 12

Hazel
Aslan
Women Talking, Ona

Question 13

Prove virtue in other ways?

Answer 13

Digory and apple,
Romaunt of the page

Question 14

What pleasure at the center or their lives, does it bring them happiness?

Answer 14

Life is layered, Earthly pleasure.
Uncle Andrew, knowledge.
The Misfit, killing.

Question 15

How do characters manipulate, do they get what they want?

Answer 15

Sabbath Lily seducing, Hazel seducig back to prove not virtous.

Question 16

Where are freaks, held up, as whole person?

Answer 16

Temple of Holy Ghost
Misfit

Question 17

Do children see more clearly?

Answer 17

Temple of the Holy Ghost
The Magician’s Nephew
Misfit asks children to sit because they make him nervous
Mark 10:13-16 recieve God as a child