Publication Date
Fall 2006
School
School of Communication
Recommended Citation
Stockslager, Tess, ""Some Spirit Was Pursuing All of Us": Literary Perspectives on Death" (2006). Senior Honors Theses. 132.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/honors/132
Abstract
This paper will pursue the theme of death as a transgression against the created order through the works of five authors-the Apostle Paul, William Shakespeare, Alfred Telmyson, Dylan Thomas, and J.R.R. Tolkien-while also providing a brief overview of the perspectives on death presented in each author's writings. The paper will demonstrate that although the five authors treat death with varying degrees of positive and negative tone, often in proportion to the orthodoxy of their Christian beliefs, their writings are in agreement that man was not created to die, and that death should not be spoken or written of lightly.
