If throughout one’s life one does not have faith, what is it that one believes in? Life is not truly lived until a person has reached the bottom and she has no where else to turn. The reader often finds themselves at points along life’s road that cause them to feel helpless and abandoned. When people overcome these two trials they see that life and trials aren’t as bad as they seem to be. . All through time one sees that even in the shadow of despair, light is just around the corner.
In The Book of Job, he had everything that he wants until God takes it all away from him. He is the lowest of the low when he begins to lose his faith and question God. Job feels that he is the only person in the world who still has a little faith after so much destruction, but when the suffering continues to inflict him he feels not only left by everyone in the world but also by God. Job goes as far as to curse the day of his birth by saying “Perish the day on which I was born...May that day be darkness” (Job 444). After being a faithful servant to the Lord he feels that God has turned his back on him and left him alone in the dark. God answers Job’s curse and basically tells him that where was he when the world was created and when the animals need feeding. He shouldn’t feel abandoned because God is always there with him.
The Iliad of Homer: Achilleus Abuses the Body of Hektor , we find that Achilleus, unlike Job who loses his faith in God, becomes almost inhuman at the loss of his friend. He did not care whether or not the gods approved of him. He willingly chose to have his faith destroyed. He could have been strong and just received the death of his friend as a blow. Instead he let it dehumanize him and there where once stood a proud and faithful soldier stands a creature that trusts or believes in nothing. The gods say “...there are no feelings of justice...Achilleus has destroyed pity, and there is not in him any shame...” (Homer 580). The reader...