Cain and Abel

Rejection is one of the worst things a person can feel because it can cause impulsive, corrupt actions to be made. In the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Cain is jealous that God favors Abel’s offerings more than his own, so he takes this envy out on Abel through murder. (New International Version, Genesis. 4.16). Before Cain kills Abel, God tells Cain, “sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (New International Version, Genesis. 4.7). “You must rule…

evil, as it was in the tale of Cain and Abel. Charles represents Cain, Adam represents Abel, Cathy represents the devil, and when the twins, Cal and Aaron, are born they take the place of Cain and Abel. Throughout the story this theme is shown through Cathy’s consistency of deceptive motives and Charles’ envy of Adam throughout certain events such as when he beats…

After Beowulf has injured Grendel, one would think that the evil spirit is now gone, however, another descendant of Cain with evil spirits appeared which was Grendel’s mother. Grendel’s mother plans to avenge her only son when she sees him with only one arm because Beowulf tore off the other one. For example, Raffel implies, “He twisted in pain, and the bleeding sinews…

Why God Gave Humans Free Will Before we can ask questions such as, “Why did God give humans free will?” we must first understand exactly what free will is and how it affects us in our daily lives. Free will is the choice we are given to decide between right and wrong. C.S. Lewis describes free will as this, “God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right.” He goes on to say, “If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” God gives us a…

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 same sort of desire for her husband that sin has for Cain, a desire to possess or control him.” This is where the conflict between the two was addresses. Foh points out, “As Cain did not rule over sin, so not…

Can violence ever be rationalized? This proposition is in East of Eden, written by John Steinbeck, but also presents itself in life. The biblical telling of Cain and Abel is portrayed when the older brother, Charles aggressively assaults Adam. Once this occurs, one could instantly think that through the rest of the novel that Charles is shown to be evil and Adam is shown to be good. In this way Steinbeck’s story relates that all evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing. Also…

Kennedy’s translation of the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel and his mother have more humanistic qualities than in being monsters. The first major character flaw that Grendel possesses is loneliness. Due to Grendel having “bore the curse of the seed of Cain/Whereby God punished the grievous guilt of Abel’s murder”(65-67) The…

insects, and hail are a few of several nature plagues found in Exodus. One of the first instances in the Hebrew Bible describing the deity as using nature to punish humans is found in Genesis chapter four, the story of Cain and Abel. After murdering Abel, the deity punishes Cain by cursing the ground. Genesis 4 reveals that the land plays an active role in the narrative and has agency over humans, yet questions the land’s degree of agency…

of Eden. John Steinbeck specifically uses the choices Cal makes in contrast to Cain in the Bible to demonstrate that human kind is born evil and the choices, which are based out of a lack of self-satisfaction, people make are what make them good or evil. Cal from East of Eden is written to mirror the Biblical character Cain. There are some distinct similarities in the characteristics of both characters. “God curses Cain, making him “a fugitive and wanderer on the earth’ (Genesis 4:14)” ( ______…

mentions a “pilgrimage”. When looking at characters who embark on pilgrimages and wander the world for long amounts of time without dying, the list isn’t necessarily long. One of the first to be given the punishment of wandering the earth can be found in Cain, the first son of Adam and Eve.…