Name of the Rose book review
...may please. Luckily in Adsos case, William was a very educated and understanding man who was open to different explanations of how things are and came to be. It was very possible that a teacher could become overly prideful in his knowledge and start to feel dominance over his student. This could possibly cause the teacher view himself as greater than the rest. This is not a good thing, however it was very common, not only within this small relationship of teacher to student, but also in the larger aspect of “The Church” to the “people”. This kind of thought allowed for people to try and get “one up” on the last person. If a teacher had interpreted something a certain way, the next person might feel they are smarter than the last and come up with another interpretation. Because now there are different interpretations of what is write, the students will then have different interpretations as well. This would then lead to dissention within the church or school. The Lords at this time realized this, so they did their best to keep other thought, (other than what they had agreed upon) out of the taught curriculum. You can see this happening throughout the whole movie. The librarian and the librarians assistant both seem to be hiding something the whole time. Only they are granted access the library. When in all reality they are hiding other extremely important books. William mentions books by Aristotle in the movie. The books by Aristotle stressed the observation of nature and the idea that theory must be supported by fact. These kinds of thoughts seemed to be frowned upon by the teachers in this movie because so much of the Christian faith is hard to explain with solid fact, (hence it being called faith). The teachers of the time did not want people to start falling away from the church more than they had already done, so they tried to keep enlightened thinking at bay. If more and more common people were to see and read the thoughts of Aristotle, then many may start to question the church, and in turn the church would lose its authority not only in the government system, but also in everyday morality. The church was based on long standing traditions to honor God. In the case of the film, The old blind man found laughter to cause a person to be unlike Jesus, to not take life seriously, and to in turn commit sin by not being like Jesus. The old man did just as I described above, he hid the book that caused laughter because he thought it was incorrect to do...