The Power And The Glory
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The Power and Glory writing assignment
“The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”.(Matthew 26:41) These words of Jesus are thematic in both the novel, , by Graham Greene, and the poem, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”, by John Donne. Both the whiskey priest and the speaker of the ....
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.... the priest says to the pious woman, “But I’m a bad priest…I know from experience-how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell.”(p.130) When he is arrested the priest says to a soldier, “You mustn’t think they are like me…It’s just that I’m a bad priest.”(p.191).
In addition to recognizing their betrayal of God, they believe that a sacred life is the ultimate victory. The speaker confesses, “Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain.”(ln.9) The prie ....
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