western literature note week 13

1. advent----the coming of an important event, person, invention, etc.

ad----ford 來臨

adventage----a thing that helps ypu to be better or more successful than other people

advance----to move forward towards somebody / something , often in order to attack or threaten them or it

2. Catholic 天主教

Catholicism is used as a broad term for describing specific traditions in the Christian churches in theology, doctrine, liturgy, ethics, and spirituality.

Protestant 新教徒 ( -ant 人 )

episcopal 主教的

presbyterian 長老派教會的

baptism 洗禮

Original Sin

3. the second coming

In Christianity, the Second Coming, sometimes called the second advent of Christ or the parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus to Earth.

The Second Coming in the Book of Revelation

The second coming----Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Bethlehem　( 耶穌誕生的地方 )

nativity of christ

4. Song : It's the most wonderful time of the year

5. chorus----song , dance

dramatic irony 戲劇的反諷

Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object.