Eve's Diary Compare/Contrast Essay

“Eve’s Diary” and “Adams Diary” both describe the biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden and the beginning of original sin. In both stories they first two humans on Earth succumb to eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge, thus changing the world forever. However, even though basis of the narrative is the same they differ fundamentally on many levels. The main difference between the two stories is the narrator, in “Eve’s Diary” Eve describes her experience of the narrative, whereas in “Adam’s Diary” Adam tells his very different perspective of similar events. The structure of “Adam’s Diary” and “Eve’s Diary” is set up in the same fashion of telling the story through days of the week. This technique adheres to the meaning of both titles in the sense that these are both personal accounts of their lives; therefore they both …show more content…
It is a wide spread phenomena that most men under think things while women over think just about everything. This theory is present in both of these diaries. In Adams diary he is very pragmatic and just sees Eve’s actions as reckless and unwarranted. His lack of imagination and descriptive analysis leads the reader to assume that his thoughts are superficial and only see things at a surface level, which corresponds to the idea that men aren’t overly emotional and accept things for what they are at their surface level. Whereas Eve’s imagination and wonder are intertwined with her descriptive analysis of the animals and the Earth allows the inference that she is a character with depth and emotion. At the end of her account she describes Adam and follows this description with her reason for loving him “he is mine and is masculine”(Eve 22). Eve actually goes as far as to show why she feels the way she does which reflects her complex thought process, corresponding with the phenomena that women overthink most