Thomas Foster puts emphasis on the thought of the connection between biblical illusions with the Western culture and other religions’ sacred text with their area of location. Foster also explains Shakespeare’s work and the Bible, both seem to cover a large amount of human experience.
Foster touches on how James Joyce, an Irish Catholic, often uses biblical parallels to convey his story. Joyce’s story follows the line of “loss of innocence”, so he uses the Fall of Adam and Eve to convey that story.
In addition, Foster mentions how phrases such as "like the very cup of trembling" (used in "Sonny's Blues" (1957)) uses the thought of phrases sounding biblical and signaling that there is religious importance even when the reader may not know that it is there or even be looking for it.
