Abel Magwitch

On the hand, we have the “A” characters, who are supposed to be allusions to the biblical Abel, the brother who’s offering God preferred and who was later killed by his brother Cain. In East of Eden, the main Abel-like characters are Adam Trask, his son Aron and other characters such as Abra Bacon and Alice Trask can be considered as minor Abel’s allusions. These two women will be dealt with now, because Adam and his son Aron will be examined throughout the entire thesis. Alice Trask Alice…

Monsters In many of the current super hero movies, the hero fights the evil villain and sometimes monsters. This is a common theme in the early epics as well. Monsters could be literal monsters of fiction, or monsters can represent people who have turned evil. Another common theme is the monsters being defeated by the heroes. This helps to reinforce the idea that heroes are the slayers of evil and to a degree cannot be conquered. Monsters serve the purpose of making the heroes challenge…

punishment in Genesis 3:16b is absent, because the woman willingly submits herself to her husband’s rule.” There are similarities between the understanding of the Hebrew word being disputed in both Genesis 3:16 and Genesis 4:7. In 4:7, it is Cain and Abel, and “the meaning in this context of the fourth chapter is that what sin desires is what Cain will carry out.” It is then due to say that there are more similarities between the desire and sin of women and the desire of Cain: “The woman has the…

The classic story of Cain and Abel can easily be shown as a parallel to two sets of brothers and one set of women in East of Eden: Charles and Adam, Cal and Aron, and Cathy and Abra. These characters compare very closely to the famous Biblical characters not only by the letter beginning their names but by their behavior and the way they were treated. The ties between these character help us, as readers, see the true underlying meaning of this book and interpret the work as a whole in a…

Certainly the Bible says explicitly that Cain was a 'tiller of the ground ', while Abel was a "keeper of sheep '”.(Maccoby). This is one explanation of why Abel 's offering was accepted better than Cain 's however “If anything, tilling the ground was the more respected during the period of occupation of the Holy Land, came a time (in the post Biblical period) when sheep-raising…

which are often paired together due to their similar nature are the tales of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis and Livy’s Romulus and Remus. The resolutions in these stories had outcomes which established ideologies on sacrificial violence and transformed the tales into founding stories. However, they are two very different kinds of founding stories which is never taken into consideration, with Cain and Abel being more of a founding story on morality, which condemned murder and sacrificial…

have made him awkward” (Golding 6). He also has a charismatic personality which attracts the other boys: “there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out” (Golding 10). This type of amiable characterization of Ralph is akin to that of Abel from the Bible whom “the Lord looked with favor” in Genesis 4:4 because of their shared protagonistic statuses (Fitzgerald 81). Comparatively, a character named Jack Merridew exemplifies qualities of Cain from the Bible. Unlike Ralph, Jack is…

Since the dawn of time, the forces of evil have always tried to gain an upper hand over the forces of good. The battles between these two forces have transcended time in both different places and in different forms. In every culture, there are always background stories of creation and the battles that are waged between the two forces of light and dark. As a result, stories and legends are passed down from generation to generation. In Beowulf, an epic poem translated by Burton Raffel, there are…

constructed based on the biblical Adam as well as the biblical Abel. Adam Trask is described as a trusting being with a genuine nature, setting him up as the Abel figure in the first generation of the Trask family. He is his father’s favourite and inadvertently stimulates the jealously of his brother, Charles. This favouritism in turn angers Charles, who so diligently attempts to win over his father’s affection. In Genesis, Cain murders Abel because God prefers Abel’s offering over Cain’s.…

Years later, Adam marries Cathy and she gives birth to twin boys, the next generation of Trask brothers. The two, Caleb and Aaron are another direct comparison to Cain and Abel, as well as proof of the narrator’s theory that good and evil lives on through human generations. The narrator maintains that since the beginning of time with the first humans, Adam and Eve, good and evil are two inevitable forces that are passed down…