Botanical garden

I remember growing up watching The Secret Garden (1993) over and over again falling in love with the magic that seemed to be there. Taking two miserably selfish children and seeing them transform into laughing loving children and a father finally coming home to his son touched my soul again and again. It would leave me in tears each time and still does today. This adaptation follows closely to the original story The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It only changed in a couple ways that…

broken” reach the light of the world. This is a desire so primitive that it started in the ethereal Garden of Eden thousands of years ago. This…

point in the garden of Eden except to test Mankind. This could only have happened if they were to be tempted by the Snake which . If this is indeed the case, are God and the Snake are working together or even the same being? God must be coordinating with the Snake in order to test Mankind’s obedience to Him. I came to this conclusion when after carefully reading the text, I could find no purpose for the tree other than to be a test for Mankind. Placing the tree in the center of the garden and…

first couple as they struggle to find their way, not only in life but in their relationship. We watch as they stumble and fall, come back together, and rediscover a lost love that they had forgotten long ago, along with their precious memories of the Garden of Eden. James Still’s adaptation on the well-known play by Mark Twain brings us a beautiful romantic tale, that makes us laugh, cry, and think a little deeper. The differing actors preforming the characters brought new life and excitement to…

In most cases, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Although in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main characters desire to be nothing like their fathers. They want a future that displays a whole different identity. Either from anger or sadness toward their father, Okonkwo and Nwoye would rather have a different last name and not be associated with him. From hate or fear they wanted to shape a personality with attributes separate from those of their dads. A father is supposed to…

In the Bible, the Apostle John proclaims “Sin is a master to whom we become enslaved” (John 8:34). The disciple John clarifies sin can consume one’s spirit completely: tearing a person apart from the guilt of their sins. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne implies a similar concept on how sin is capable of altering one’s character, along with the shame from their guilt. Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne utilizes key elements such as diction and rhetorical devices, to convey a…

beauty with the guidance of confinement, man's first disobedience, sin, and revenge. Confinement: To keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, quantity, or time). Confinement ties to Satan’s perspective of the Garden of Eden because he feels as if he does not belong. The book portrays jealousy from Satan since Adam and Eve live royally in Paradise. Because Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to…

Devil can leave and enter hell at this point. The demons are supposed to run around the lower garden and they are also in Hell talking with the Devil. The passage on the eastern side, however, is brighter and situated above the lower garden. In addition, it is set on the on the east side of the garden, which makes it an even more convenient place for heaven. Three steps connect the passage with the lower garden. Even before the Fall of Man at the very beginning of the play, it is said that Eve…

Origin of Sin • In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve was tempted by the evil snake, he convinced Eve to eat from the tree of Good and Evil, by stating to her that ‘Did God really say that you must not eat from the tree. He convinced her that she would not die, and she would know good and evil like God. This is the first sin that took place on earth by mankind, “Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9 NASB). Sin entered the world by the serpent who deceived Eve,…

Throughout history, John Milton’s Paradise Lost has been viewed as a controversial poem for several reasons. Whether it is Milton’s portrayal of Satan, as a semi-hero, with mainly heroic characteristics, or Milton’s God in Paradise Lost, one can see that the writer challenged conventional roles of his time. Less apparent is Milton’s progressive viewpoint on women in the poem. Although Milton cannot be classified as a feminist writer, Eve’s portrayal is highly liberal for the seventeenth century.…