Cain and Abel

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…

In order to know exactly what the stumbling block principle is, a stumbling block must be defined as it is used in the Bible. First, in order to understand a stumbling block, “offense” must be defined. Offense within the Bible can be defined in two ways. It can be seen in the Bible as God or Jesus causing unbelievers to stumble in their ways and become saved, and it can also be seen as an experienced Christian causing a new Christian to act against their conscience; this offense can also be…

In Genesis 27, verse 35-36, “But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.” Esau said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!’” Jacob tricked his father into giving the blessing, that originally belonged to Esau, to himself. He did this out of self-gain. “37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling…

True West by Sam Shepard shows us a snippet of a family’s dynamic in an interesting way. There is no clear statement that the two brothers, Lee-the eldest and Austin-the younger, are jealous of each other but Shepard is able to convey this through their interactions. An interesting way Shepard shows this is through Austin, the more stable and successful brother of the two with a career goal and a family of his own, getting easily lost in Lee’s stories of his life in the dessert. There is an…

Brother to Brother Brother to Brother all throughout history that has been the question. It's always a competition between them, they constantly fight for the approval of their father. Which one is greater? Which one is stronger? Which one is smarter? That's is the evil deep inside of us all. The constant battle between each other for greatness. All the death and sorrow it has caused and yet we still have not learned from our mistakes. We constantly struggle with one another for these…

It is not right for God to cast out Grendel family because of their connection to cain. The reason behind his actions are mainly because his ancestor was the first murder in the world and God was punishing Cain and his entire family after him. He felt that he was a different person and did not want to be treated like a monster just because of his family history. Grendel believed that he should not be punished because of what his ancestor did. He felt that he was a different person and did not…

John Gardner’s Grendel, is the first person narrative of the monster, Grendel, from Beowulf. In the Epic Poem Beowulf, the main character Beowulf kills Grendel. He does this because to him Grendel is an evil monster that deserves to die. In Grendel, Grendel tells his own story of how he met his fatal demise. In the beginning Grendel believed he was without purpose or identity. In the end, his isolation, suffering, and experiences led him to find purpose and identity. Since Grendel was born…

from the biblical story of Cain and Abel is near the beginning of the story when the older brother (narrator) and one of Sonny’s friends are having a conversation. This passage is important because Baldwin plays off the exact same conversation between Cain and God in Cain and Abel. In both stories, the older brother’s do not feel a sense of responsibility for their younger brothers. In Genesis, after Cain kills Abel, God confronts Cain about his brother’s whereabouts. Cain answered, “I do not…

The man behind "Strange Fruit" is a man from New York City named Abel Meeropol. In The Guardian news article by Caryl Phillips He says, "Meeropol was motivated to write the poem after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, who had been lynched in Marion, Indiana on August 7 1930. Their bodies were hanging limply from a tree" (Phillips 5). Harold heft says in The Jewish Daily Forward, "The poem “Bitter Fruit” was first published in the union journal The New York…

An example of this is shown when Abel Magwitch or also known as the convict gives Pip money that will let him become a true gentle man in this time Pip starts becoming a true gentle man when Jagers came to him and said that “he has Great Expectations”,(Dickens 174). Pip has changed through…