East of Eden

For example, Adam says, “Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. . . . WE? Where did I get that word-the new creature uses it” (Twain 189). Adam accidentally uses Eve’s word, “we”, which annoys him because he has convinced himself he does not care nor does he like Eve. In contrast, Eve…

condemnation, as the title suggests she is responsible for what has become of living after God’s punishment. Although, as Paul wrote in Romans 5:12, “it was by one man that sin came into the world”, meaning the responsibility of having been cast out of Eden is a shared one. However, if it is to be believed that Adam was not present while Eve ate the fruit (as Jerome would like us to believe), then his only crime is to have trusted Eve to be on her own, transforming a shared responsibility to one…

Paradise. Some say it is the feeling of innocence. Others say it is a place of happiness. What really defines paradise and when does it end? Playwright Arthur Miller once stated, “Paradise [is]... the absence of any need to choose... action.” Furthermore, he claimed, “Paradise ends [and] innocence ends... where choice begins.” In John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace, Leper, a vulnerable young boy attending the Devon school endures the loss of paradise as he experiences the impacts of World War…

The Edenic covenant was prevalent before the fall of man. God created the world and man. God promised man a partner and asked them to dominate over all the animals and live happily in the Eden Garden and in return asked them refrain from eating a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. This covenant lasted till Adam and Eve were innocent, before their original sin. The Adamic Covenant is made after the fall of man. It begins with the Adam and Eve’s awareness of their sin (Gn.3:7). Scofield terms…

not equal seemd” (4.295-296). Adam accepts God’s ways and is thus aligned because God’s ways benefit him, whereas they put Eve at a natural disadvantage based on her sex alone. The problem of pleasure as a pedagogical strategy for Eve is that she inherently cannot absolve herself from life’s complications and inequalities as easily as Adam can, if she can at all. When Satan seduces Eve, he uses rhetorical devices that function in opposition to the rhetoric that Raphael uses for Adam. Whereas…

The book of Genesis gives us insight to many things in terms of our human lives and the condition of our hearts and souls. (1) The Bible opens with an account of the creation of everything and then continues to tell us the stories of people’s lives and the places that they lived. Genesis also tells us about the events that take place over an incredible amount of time. Due to this, some people who read the Bible view Genesis as a history textbook, to be read but not studied. I see Genesis as a…

Serpents in literature often have a negative connotation attached to them. In both “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and The Old Testament’s tale of Adam and Eve, the character of the serpent plays a large role. It can be argued that the serpent in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” played both a positive and negative role, whereas the serpent in The Old Testament was primarily an antagonistic character. By looking at the general symbolism of serpents in literature, it is easy to uncover the important yet slightly…

symbolism is in almost every literature piece you could pick up. Sometimes, if you are not exactly familiar with religious symbolism you would not see them in a literature piece. In Lord of the Flies a novel written by William Golding, The Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, the devil, and Christ himself are all shown throughout this novel. These biblical expressions are sequestered quite well, if you do not have a trained eye for the bible, you may need help finding them. Religious symbolism is a…

of disobedience, as well as how a desire to be equal to God motivates disobedience. This is important in how it explains the ultimate reason humans sin and how it affects God’s relationship with humanity. The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden depicts a different relationship between God and man than is expressed anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible. God takes walks with humanity, provides them with all the food and water needed to take care of themselves and the animals. After Eve and…

world-renowned pieces of art and this paper will be going into detail the history behind one of his most well known. In this piece of artwork, titled Adam and Eve (Fig 1), he used an engraving method to depict a scene involving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This piece was created in 1504 in Dürer’s homeland, Germany. Throughout the scene, many different symbols appear which come together to form an interpretation of what happened in the book of Genesis. Dürer also focuses most of his…