Cain and Abel

According to the Old Testament, Job is a blameless and upright man. (Job 1:1, NIV) The history of Job is different from Adam, Eve, and Cain due to his consistent innocence. He regularly sent offerings up to God on behalf of his children and himself. Job is a wealthy man of his time with many children and a wife. God favors him so much that he surrounds Job with a hedge of protection. Satan…

When Cain asks the question “ Am I my Brother’s Keeper?”, God doesn’t answer him. I see this lack of answer as a motivation for Cain to explore it for himself. He wants Cain to reveal his own emotions and factors that caused him to kill Abel, and to expand upon it. When Cain gets driven from the land, he states: “ My punishment is more than I can bear”. I perceive this as there is too much freedom for him, that there is restraint in freedom, Cain doesn’t know what to do with all the freedom he…

might be the most important word in the world,” cried Lee, a character in East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (add citation). Timshel originates from the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The passage in which Lee is speaking, refers to God’s words regarding Cain’s actions. In the Hebrew text, God utilizes the word “timshel” to unveil to Cain that he holds the personal authority to surpass evil, if he chooses to do so. Timshel embodies the essence of free will. But does mankind truly have the burning…

hate intertwine with one another in the Holy Bible. Cain, the brother of Abel, and Joseph’s brothers, all had jealousy and hate built in their heart against their own flesh and blood brother. This was jealousy of worship. The first book in the Holy Bible, Genesis, speaks about ways one must please God. If he or she wants to show their love unto God, they must offer up a sacrificial offering. Cain was known…

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.…

Abel and Remus are portrayed as weak which develops the sacrificial violence that occurs. Throughout Cain and Romulus’s entire lives, they were taught to look for ways to differentiate themselves from those around them. The population gravitates to those with a similar sense of self and views of others. When having the belief God or the population was on their “side”, they had the ability to persecute when their beliefs are proved to be wrong in face of a lack of differentiation. Cain and…

Looking around to see if anyone was around, he took a huge rock and without hesitation smashed it into his rival's skull. Then he quickly picked up a limb with a sharp point and dug into the soil near the lifeless body. Within a few minutes the whole was big enough to roll his victim in and cover him with the soft dirt. Running from the grave he felt himself shaking all over with rage. He had never felt so strong and powerful before. He smelled the scent of blood on his clothes and noticed he…

The biblical story of Cain and Abel can still be related to today. Cain was jealous of Abel, so Cain killed Abel in remorse to calm his own tensions with malicious intent instead. Now, not all types of jealousy face this magnitude, but, we are able to see the same reasoning that does not end with death. However, Grendel’s…

“Malignant by nature, he never showed fear” (Heaney 137). Grendel, a disfigured, murderous beast roams the shadows of Heorot with his “monstrous hell bride” (1259) of a mother. To the people of Heorot, they are both outcasts, forbidden from living a normal life amongst civilization. This has been the case for as both Grendel and his mother have lived on the Earth, due to a God-cursed history leading to the birth of Grendel. That curse has led both of Heorot’s monsters to be separated from…

that come from the Bible and sibling rivalry occurs in several stories throughout the book. First with Adam and Eve’s sons, Cain and Abel. In perhaps what is the ultimate example of sibling rivalry, Cain murders his brother Abel in a fit of jealous rage. God had accepted Abel’s offer of meat, but not Cain’s offer of fruits and grains. Despite God’s warning to Cain against sin, Cain lets an all consuming jealousy towards his brother lead him into a blind rage. This story from Genesis 4 teaches us…