scholarly journals Ons wag op die kaptein (Elsa Joubert): Bybel en Christendom as intertekste

Literator ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
M. J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Basic Beliefs

The Bible and Christianity are the most important intertexts in the novels of Elsa Joubert. The purpose of this article is to examine the part played by these intertexts in Ons wag op die kaptein. To this end the relationship between certain passages of Scripture as well as some basic beliefs of Christianity and aspects of the novel are examined: the theme, Ana-Paula's attitude towards the people of Africa as well as to her white subordinates, Carlos' treatment of his labourers, the significance of the arrival of the ‘captain' and the reconciliation which takes place during the very last moments before this arrival. Finally a brief look is taken at the link between the above-mentioned intertexts and some of the leading motifs in the narrative.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Education and Social Value in The Novel “The Magician’s Apprentice” By: Trudi Canavan

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Rohdearni Wati Sipayung
Keyword(s):  
Social Value ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This novel  has many basic values of human, and the writer wants to share about the social value of this Novel. Although this novel tells of a witch, as we know that the stories of about witches, it may be difficult to find which part is the social value. But the writer wants to find the part that is a social value, because in every story there must be a positive value that can be taken by the reader. The social value of Cooperation, cooperation within a group can make the job easier. The social value of care. Human beings we should care about each other, helping each other and pay attention. The social value of bravery, in life we must have the courage because, as we know there are still many people who are afraid to face the people.

scholarly journals Inversion of biblical symbols in The Grapes of Wrath

2012 ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Miriam Pérez Venero
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People

Although it is agreed that Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is full ofallusions and symbols connected to the Bible, no consensus has been reachedyet about their nature. In this article an analysis is described which aims atdemonstrating that the allusions and symbols found are better interpreted asinversions of the traditional biblical symbols, in such a way that the novel canbe considered a new ‘bible for the people’.

The death of the Master: the Gospel of John and R. L. Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-306
Author(s):  
Alison Jack
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Bible ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Simple Dependence ◽  
At Home

In this paper, I argue that the influence of John's Gospel on R. L. Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is significant on several levels. On the level of narrative, I show that both texts are narrated from a perspective which shifts uneasily from omniscience to uncertainty. John's Gospel, particularly its closing chapters, offers a powerful model for the telling of the story of The Master of Ballantrae. The reliability both of Mr MacKellar, the novel's narrator, and of the mysterious editor of the material which makes up John's Gospel, is open to question. On the level of plot, the death, burial and ‘resurrection’ of James Durie, the ‘Master’, at least on one reading of the novel's title, mirrors the death, burial and resurrection of the Johannine Christ. This is no straightforward importation of one set of ideas onto another, rather an imaginative and sophisticated retelling of the climax of the Gospel story. Finally, on the level of characterisation, several of the characters in The Master of Ballantrae share features with players in the Gospel narrative, particularly those who appear in the Passion and resurrection scenes. Pilate's vacillations and Thomas's doubts flesh out our understanding of the characters who witness the death throes of the warring Durie brothers.Robert Louis Stevenson had grown up hearing the Bible read at home and in church. Despite rejecting the faith of his parents in his twenties, he nevertheless continued to be drawn to the images and cadences of the Bible, and particularly of the Gospels. The relationship between The Master of Ballantrae and John's Gospel is not one of simple dependence: but the influence of the Gospel on the novel, I argue, is clear and distinctive.

scholarly journals Relationship between Human and Animal in Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Syafira Hardina Chairani ◽  
Masulah Masulah ◽  
Ari Setyorini
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to analyse the relationship between human and animal in Kate DiCamillo’s novel entitled The Magician’s Elephant. This study analyzed how the people in The Magician’s Elephant treat the animal. From the analysis in the research, the researcher found the disharmony of the relationship between humans and animals in the novel. This novel is very anthropocentric, where the people in it do not build good relations with animal, including exploiting and treating animal improperly. Ecocriticism opposes excessive exploitation of nature. All animals in the world have their own rights to life no less certainly as human do. Ecocriticism believes that animals could feel like the human in the world, aware of the world, also aware of what happens to them. Include their bodies, their freedom, even their lives. The researcher used ecocritcism theory to support this research. Qualitative descriptive is used as the research method in this research. Based on the analysis the reasearcher conclude that The Magician’s Elephant have the animal right issues, where humans ought to establish good relations with nature, especially animals

جماليـات القريـة في الروايـة الفلسطينيـة قريــة (بيـت حانـون) أنموذجـاً

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The People ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Shed Light

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى مقاربة صورة قرية بيت حانون كما جسّدها عدد من كُتّاب الرواية الفلسطينية؛ للوقوف على هذه الصورة، وإبراز مكانتها ودورها، إذ عمد الروائيون الفلسطينيون إلى تسليط الضوء على جوانب الحياة المتعددة في هذه القرية الفلسطينية. وتناولت هذه الدراسة حول أربعة محاور هي: عتبة العنوان، والفضاء الجغرافي لبيت حانون، وصور من نضال أبناء القرية ومقاومته، وملامح من الحياة الاجتماعية في القرية. وسعت أيضاً للكشف عن وسائل التشكيل الفني التي وظفها الكُتّاب في بناء رواياتهم من: رصد للأحداث، ورسم للشخصيات الروائية، وتناول لعناصر اللغة والسرد مثل: توظيف تيار الوعي، وتداعي الأفكار، والاسترجاع، والحوار الدرامي بنوعيه: الداخلي والخارجي، وتوظيف للتراث، وقد أسهمت تلك التقانات مجتمعة في نقل تجارب الروائيين. ومن أهم النتائج التي توصلت إليها الدراسة الحالية أن الأعمال الروائية التي تناولت بيت حانون قد صورتها بكل أبعادها وفئاتها، وكشفت عن علاقة أهل القرية بالأرض، وعشقهم لها، وتعلقهم بها، ووُفق الروائيون في تحديد الإطار الزماني والمكاني لأحداث رواياتهم؛ الأمر الذي أسهم في بناء الأحداث ورسم الشخصيات، وصياغة السرد والحوار، وزاوج الروائيون في رواياتهم بين أسلوب السرد المباشر القائم على التصوير والتحليل وأسلوب تيار الوعي الذي يعبر عن المضمون من خلال وعي الشخصية، وامتازت اللغة الروائية بالفصاحة والبساطة والوضوح، بعيداً عن الإغراق في استعمال اللهجة الشعبية المحلية، مع الميل –أحياناً- إلى توظيف اللغة الشعرية الموحية؛ مما أسهم في تطوير الأحداث، وبعث الحيوية في المواقف المتميزة، بشكل حقق معه تصوراً متكاملاً لظواهر الواقع المعيشي. Abstract This study aimed to investigate the image of Beith Hanoun village as embodied by various Palestinian novelists in order to understand this image and to shed light on its significance and role. This is because various Palestinians novelists intended to highlight multiple aspects of life in this Palestinian village. This study revolve around four key domains: the title, the geographical space of Beith Hanoun , various models of the struggle of the people of the village and its resistance , and the features of social life in the village. Also, the study sought to disclose the means of artistic formation employed by the writers to build their stories such as : monitoring the events , persona of the novel , the elements of language and narrative such as: employment of consciousness , the association of ideas , and recall , and the two types of dramatic dialogue, both internal and external, and the use of heritage. These techniques, in congregation, contributed to convey the experiences of novelists as well as to embody their humanistic visions. The study concluded that the various novels that tackled Beith Hanon depicted all its dimensions and categories. They also revealed the relationship between the people of Beith Hanon and their land; their love and affection to it. The novelists were successful in determining the settings of their novels in ways which contributed to the building of events, persona, narrative, and dialogue. The novelists combined direct narrative which is based on portraying and analysis with the awareness stream which expresses the content through conscious persona. The language of the novels was characterized with plainness, simplicity, and clarity, and it bypassed extensive use of local and humble language with an occasional tendency to employ indicative poetic language in ways that developed events and revived distinctive situations to depict a holistic picture of living reality.

scholarly journals Reconciliation in Deuteronomy

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
H F Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

The Book of Deuteronomy holds a central position in the Old Testament, and indeed in the Bible as a whole. It provides a summary of what the faith of Israel in the Old Testament is all about. It speaks about the covenant God made between himself and his people, about faithfulness to that covenant and of  the implications of breaking the covenant. This covenant had implications not only for the way the people of Israel had to live as God’s people in God’s land, but also for the relationship among the members of the covenant. This article discusses the structure of the book of Deuteronomy, and then the way in which reconciliation appears in each of the different parts. The theme of reconciliation is not dealt with explicitly in all the passages discussed, but it does form a part of the subtext of the book of Deuteronomy. The people could only experience the Lord’s blessings in the promised land after He had brought about reconciliation between Himself and them. To keep on experiencing the Lord’s blessings, they had to remain faithfull to Him, obey his commandments and live within the boundaries He prescribed.

scholarly journals Transitivity Analysis of Proverbs in Achebe’s A Man of the People

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Emodi Livina Nkeiruka
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Element ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Structures

The language of literary texts is adorned with proverbs, a cultural element which to some extent has become significant in the growth and development of African literature and in the portrayal of meaning assigned by the writer. This paper explores the relationship between linguistic structures and culturally constructed meaning in Chinua Achebe’s novel A Man of the people by critically examining the transitivity of proverbs used in the work. This study is anchored on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar. The analysis reveals that Achebe uses more material processes, followed by mental processes and then relational and verbal processes. Furthermore, the types of transitivity process, participants, circumstatials contribute towards the construction of themes reflected in the novel. Based on the results, the paper concludes that Achebe uses a variety of transitivity processes as proposed by M.A.K. Halliday with the exception of existential and behaviour. He uses actors, sensers, carriers, identifiers, to convey message of his novel. Achebe mostly uses circumstances of extent, location, and manner to show that the actions take place in a certain place, time, and at a certain frequency. The paper concludes that Achebe’s use of varieties of processes, participants and circumstances has made his novel interesting and readable.

The Relationship Between the People of the Book and Muslims in the Bible and the Holy Quran

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (- 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad El-Din abdallah El- Shanti
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The research discusses an important issue of real life, namely the relationship between the people of the Book and Muslims. Since the people of the Book represent an important segment in our contemporary real life, it becomes necessary to identify texts of the two books (Qur'an - Bible) regarding the relationship with each other. This shall enable the reader to understand the teachings of these books and the relationship that each book commands. The title of the research (the relationship between the people of the Book and Muslims in the Bible, the Holy Quran and the Holy Year) has two main ideas: the relationship of the people of the Book to Muslims in the light of the texts of the Bible and the relationship of the people of the Book to Muslims in the light of the texts of the Holy Quran and Sunnah.

scholarly journals Ambiguitas, Interkulturalitas, Dan Hibriditas Relasional Dalam Relasi Antara Israel Dan Bangsa-Bangsa Lain

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Robert Setio
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Active Response ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Abstrak: Artikel ini merupakan analisis terhadap hubungan antara Israel dan bangsa-bangsa lainnya dengan menggunakan pemikiran tentang “liyan.” Dalam masyarakat multikultural kehadiran liyan tidak terhindarkan dan menuntut tanggapan yang sungguh-sungguh. Keadaan ini pada gilirannya akan menciptakan ambiguitas, sebagaimana yang dialami oleh Israel. Penemuan arkeologis akhir-akhir ini membuktikan bahwa hubungan antara Israel dengan bangsa-bangsa lain ternyata tidak seperti yang dilukiskan oleh Alkitab. Israel bukanlah sebuah bangsa yang pada suatu masa datang ke Kanaan yang sudah berpenduduk, tetapi mereka muncul secara bertahap dari antara bangsa Kanaan sendiri. Maka, Israel memiliki banyak kesamaan dengan bangsa-bangsa lain itu. Pada pihak lain, Israel juga menumbuhkan sebuah ideologi yang lama-kelamaan akan membentuk mereka menjadi sebuah bangsa. Telah disarankan agar hubungan antara Israel dengan bangsa-bangsa lain itu dipandang sebagai hubungan interkultural. Meskipun pandangan itu masuk akal, namun penulis hendak mengajukan cara pandang lain. Cara pandang itu adalah hibriditas relasional. Dalam pandangan ini, Israel dilihat sebagai sebuah bangsa yang bersifat hibrid, namun bukan dalam arti yang statis. Hibriditas di sini dipandang sebagai sebuah keadaan yang menuntut tanggapan aktif. Dengan kata lain, kesamaan dan perbedaan antara Israel dengan bangsa-bangsa lainnya tidak boleh dianggap sebagai sebuah kondisi yang sudah jadi melainkan terus-menerus dalam proses pembentukan. Kata-kata kunci: Liyan, ambiguitas, budaya, interkultural, agama, kesamaan, perbedaan, hibriditas relasional.   Abstract: This article will analyze the relationship between Israel and other nations using the concept of “the other.” In a multicultural society, the presence of the other is unavoidable and demands a serious response. This, however, creates ambiguity, as experienced by Israel. Recent archeological findings have proven that the relationship between Israel and other nations mentioned in the Bible was unlike the description provided by the Bible. Israel was not a separate nation that came into an already occupied land of Canaan, but rather, it gradually emerged as agroup from within the people of the land. Therefore, it can be expected that this nation shared many similarities with its cohabitants. On the other hand, it also developed a distinctive ideology which over time formed Israel as a separate nation. It has been suggested to consider the relationship between Israel and the others through the lens of interculturality. This article proposes another perspective, that is, a relational hybridity. From this perspective, Israel is seen as a hybrid nation. The hybridity is understood as a state of life, but, as one that always demands an active response. In other words, it is a process continously evolving. Keywords: The other, ambiguity, intercultural, religion, similarity, difference, hybridity, relational

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

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