The Garden Of Earthly Delights Analysis

To think that I would have a completely different way of thinking about my daily activities from research of a painting of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Heironymus Bosch, this painting is a part of our first year read book that is brought up on many occasions by Frans Dee Waal who relates it back to the Bonobos. This painting required much time looking at and much research. To me this painting has made me come to think so much about temptations that we fight in our life, to me as a college student there’s so many temptations that I fight everyday, They are displayed in the painting through fruits there is a bramble bush that grows black berries, a pelican feeding its young, men holding fruit with a stroke’s head, they represent that temptations are all around us, they can consume us and they will make us weak. To give some background on the painting, the painting is a triptych, which were made for religious purpose and placed on a alter in the churches, but if you when you are to look at this painting you don’t see that …show more content…
If you are know for anyone of those things you are seen as such a low life in the eyes of society because of temptations that are so easily brought to you. The bible even says St.Luke 6:44 for every tree is know by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor from bramble bushes do they gather grapes.”(Blum 7) It is easy to lead into temptation but when you take the high road and go on your own path then that is the hardest part of our lives that we face, sure its easy to skip class but what good is that going to do me get more sleep when is should have went to bed earlier last night. I think not, even though there is much worse things this gives us good habits and away to stay away from