Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Can Phineas the handsome, taunting,daredevil, athlete be a Christ figure?

According to How to Read Literature Like A Professor for a character to be a Christ like figure they have to have some similarities to Jesus. The first reason Phineas is a Christ Figure is that like Jesus, Phineas was in agony. I know this because he says "I have suffered"(Knowles 16). Another similarity to Jesus that Phineas has is that he uses humble modes of transportation. An example of that is when he and Gene went to the beach he used a bike. A third similarity is that Jesus is portrayed with arms outstretched and so was Phineas when "[Phineas] raised his arms invoking the air to support him" on the bridge. Another example that Phineas is like Jesus is that he has disciples which are the people who always follow what he does just like when Phineas invented Blitzkrieg. Gene one of his many disciples betrays him by jouncing the limb which causes Phineas to shatter his leg just like Judas betrayed Jesus by identifying Jesus in public by kissing him which caused Jesus to be arrested by the Romans and later crucified. The fourth example that Phineas is a Christ Figure is the fact that like Jesus, Phineas also was known to spend time in the woods like when Gene found him snowball fighting.(Knowles 86) My final example is that after saving Phineas from his guilt by letting the truth out about how he shattered his leg he dies, just like how Jesus died after saving he saved the world from sin.

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