Eve’s not Sorry: Stating the case for Adam’s Innocence
According to the bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans to ever exist and live in the Earth. God created and placed them in the Garden of Eden, where they broke a promise they had made to the all-powerful. This mistake would change the course of all mankind’s existence for the worse. Through history, there has been a debate to settle whose fault it was. In “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”, Amelia Lanier tried to persuade the readers that Eve was not to blame for what happened right before the fall of men. I do not think her arguments are valid because she omitted crucial details from the biblical story, they are based on assumptions, and she was clearly biased against Adam.
Clearly, the author’s purpose was to change the audience’s judgment of Eve and remove her guilt. The author was so committed to her goal that she proposedly …show more content…
Logically, this would lead her to side with the member of her own gender in the dispute. This is not necessarily wrong, but when a person is so partial that she throws reason and common sense out the window it becomes a problem. One, as a reader, asks himself whether the author really expected us to believe some of the ungrounded allegations she included in her work.
Given this point, I consider that both parties involved in the act are to blame, but Eve was the first one to fall and could be held with most of the responsibility. They were both members of mankind and their actions had repercussions in all the subsequent human lives. While I do acknowledge Adam was also guilty, he should not receive more blame than his counterpart. In short, “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” is not a compelling work because the author left out essential elements from the Bible, it is based on her inferences, and she was not being fair-minded when composing
According to the bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans to ever exist and live in the Earth. God created and placed them in the Garden of Eden, where they broke a promise they had made to the all-powerful. This mistake would change the course of all mankind’s existence for the worse. Through history, there has been a debate to settle whose fault it was. In “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”, Amelia Lanier tried to persuade the readers that Eve was not to blame for what happened right before the fall of men. I do not think her arguments are valid because she omitted crucial details from the biblical story, they are based on assumptions, and she was clearly biased against Adam.
Clearly, the author’s purpose was to change the audience’s judgment of Eve and remove her guilt. The author was so committed to her goal that she proposedly …show more content…
Logically, this would lead her to side with the member of her own gender in the dispute. This is not necessarily wrong, but when a person is so partial that she throws reason and common sense out the window it becomes a problem. One, as a reader, asks himself whether the author really expected us to believe some of the ungrounded allegations she included in her work.
Given this point, I consider that both parties involved in the act are to blame, but Eve was the first one to fall and could be held with most of the responsibility. They were both members of mankind and their actions had repercussions in all the subsequent human lives. While I do acknowledge Adam was also guilty, he should not receive more blame than his counterpart. In short, “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” is not a compelling work because the author left out essential elements from the Bible, it is based on her inferences, and she was not being fair-minded when composing