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The Temptations of Thomas Beck
Title: The Temptations of Thomas Beck
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 999 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Temptations of Thomas Beck
The Temptations of Thomas Becket
The four temptations faced by Thomas Becket in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral are meant to resemble the temptations of Christ in St. Matthew’s Gospel. As He was fasting in the desert, Jesus was visited by the devil, who tempted him three times. First, Satan asked Jesus to feed himself by turning stones into bread. Second, he told Jesus to throw himself down from the temple, …showed first 75 words of 999 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 999 total…there is no danger. I have, therefore, only to make perfect my will.” If Thomas is sure that he is choosing to die for the right reason, the love of God, then his life and his death have meaning. Finally, the Archbishop calls on an angel to minister to him, just as Jesus did after resisting the devil. “Now, my good Angel, whom God appoints to be my guardian, hover over the sword’s point.”
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