Class Discussion Notes:
10.18.2005
- (Ben) focuses on material possession
because he wants to prevent temptation instead of seeking spiritual
enlightenment
- (Sharon)
if he were truly transformed, he wouldn’t be so irritated—the
transformation isn’t complete because hes going through motions without
inner peace
- everyone gets annoyed
- (Noel) He was being so good that
sometimes he just can’t handle it anymore
- (Susan- 152) he likes being able to
resent temptation but he still questions himself
- (Willy) he’s enamored by this sense of
power- instead of submitting himself to God, he wants God to recognize
his piety and favor him
- (May- 159) “secret knowledge and
secret power” are priests even supposed to see themselves as innocent?
- (Eleanor) Stephen turns to religion
when he feels guilty
- (Ben) he turns away from the power and
toward the real world after he is asked to become a priest as he runs to
the beach (165, 162) “snares of the world” “his soul…” (169)
- (May) most people don’t need an
epiphany to realize what they want to create