ASSIGNMENT

Assignment



Assignment

Question 1

Newman statements about the existence of God are related to our conscience and inner feelings. As per Newman we, human beings, are always conscious about what we are doing. We often feel that there is some kind of voice telling us about right and wrong and that voice gives us feeling that God exists but not visible to us.

Another argument that Bertrand Russell posted was the concept of a good and evil. He arguments that if there was no God than there would be no accountability and there would be no evil.

On above notion numbers of people have developed number of different perceptions and those perceptions are relative in nature. Huxley gave this phenomenon of agnosticism that deals with the differences between the religious arguments. Huxley admits that he does not have any reason of denying the existence of God and he says this belief is human's own morality. According to him people believe in the existence of God but cannot explain it.

Mencken was an atheist and he was with a view that he did not believe in existence or non existence of God but he did not use to accept that. Very few atheists persist that everyone there is an agnostic because no one actually knows for sure whether God does exist, but the point of agnosticism here is whether you assert knowledge — even if you are mistaken.

Question 2

In "The Wife of His Youth," Mr. Ryder is able to shield himself from these conflicting emotions only until external forces intrude to exert the influence of memory and prior identity. To his credit, Ryder is uniquely susceptible to the transformative powers of the tale which the old black woman tells. He must sense that his claims to gentility and high economic standing are limited; this is one reason why he is seeking to improve his social position through marriage to a woman who is lighter-skinned than he is. He is prompted by more than polite condescension to admit the stranger into his home. The hope that hearing her story will "refresh [his] memory" is an invitation to the storyteller to break down the barriers between the present and the past, and to admit the listener to recognition of his origins.

For her part, the wife of Ryder's youth moves with consummate assuredness of her identity. The very first act of her narrative is to name herself, "`my name's `Liza, `Liza Jane', and to give an account of her slave experience. She is utterly confident about her entitlement to pass into Ryder's kitchen and tell her tale, and she never doubts that her example of fidelity must command respect. Her repeated assertions of fidelity accentuate Ryder's own life of denial, and he is finally compelled to confront his true identity: once when he beholds his own faded Daguerre type which 'Liza Jane wears around her neck; and then after she departs, as he "stood for a long time before the mirror of his dressing-case, gazing thoughtfully at ...