ROMANCE AND REALITY

As soon as human beings developed a tendency to acknowledge God or
the gods for the creation of the world and humanity itself, they developed a
sensation of being protected by The Almighty. The inception of espionage seems
to have an intimate link with this feeling of being protected. In order to protect,
God has to 'watch' or 'see' his creation constantly. The notion of God (or gods, in
case of polytheistic religions) being a permanent resident of heaven, that is, a
place located above the earth too bears a reflection of this idea about God being
the watchman for the entire creation. Though myths or religious texts from
numerous cultures and religions bear such ideas, keeping in mind, the present
discussion's focus on Anglo-American literature, it seems proper to trace echoes
of the ideas in Christianity due to the dominance of Christianity on the Anglo-
American culture.