East of Eden

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

things God created he said was good however he took pride especially in mankind. He created mankind in his own image to worship him and give him glory. On the seventh day of creation God rested according to the bible. When God created the garden of eden, he also allowed their to be a tree called the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve were told directly by God not to eat from it however they were tempted by satan and chose to eat from it ignoring God's warning.…

In Paradise Lost, we encounter several important characters that we can classify as the hero of the story but there is only one character who truly fits the category of a hero. Adam, the first man created by God, is a true example of a tragic hero. Several characteristics of a tragic hero are a noble birth, fated for punishment or great suffering, free will and enlightenment through suffering. Milton believes that his character or subject is more heroic than Achilles or Aeneas because he doesn’t…

to interpret a parallel between Adam and Eve and Tommy of the past, present, and future sequences. It is the opening shot to the film, and it is the epigraph to Izzie’s book. It reads, “Therefore the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and placed a flaming sword to protect the tree of life” (The Fountain). Adam and Eve committed the original sin of the pursuit of knowledge of good and evil—an act of defiance of and competition with God—and were prevented from experiencing…

The Comparisons of the Creation Stories of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Popol Vuh, and Genesis Throughout history several cultures have developed their own accounts of how the origin of the earth and its people were created. Three accounts that can be compared are Popol Vuh (The “Mayan Bible”), the book of Genesis from the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, and The Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia. By reading these similar creation and flood stories, one can grasp a deeper understanding of the…

appearance, and role in the story. She lived in nature with the animals, and her green complexion made her almost blend into the lush scene of Perelandra. She was the only woman on Perelandra at the time. Just as Eve was the only woman in the Garden of Eden initially. The Green Lady was the main object of Un-man’s temptations just as Satan’s main object was Eve. Satan and Un-man both used reasoning to tempt their…

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how the people first came to inhabit it. For example, two of them are the Genesis story and the Chinese story. Although the two stories have a great deal of dissimilarities they also have a number of indistinguishable elements. Both creation stories have some things in common. First, in both stories humans were made from the earth. The Chinese story states that Nu Wa sculpted humans from the mud. “From the edge of the pond she…

After watching some gameplay videos for the new ps4 game Until Dawn, I was reminded of a strange term I had once heard, the butterfly effect. Upon seeing this, I decided to do some research to find out more about it. The Chaos theory more commonly called the butterfly effect summarized by Edward Lorenz is a branch of mathematics that deals with complex systems whose behaviour is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions, so that small alterations can give rise to strikingly great…

Bowen’s Family Systems theory (BFST) attempts to explain human behavior as it relates to family dynamics and its complex interconnections. Reading Genesis chapters one through four, I identified four of eight BFST concepts that can be applied to “The First Family”: (a) triangles concept, (b) nuclear family concept, (c) emotional cutoff, and (d) sibling position. According to BFST, the triangle concept refers to three individuals that are in some way connected to each other, be it biological…

“[...] felt compelled to write about man’s evil” (Bloom). Lord of the Flies contains the literary element of symbolism with the Lord of the Flies, the literary element of allegory in Golding’s description of the island, which embodies the garden of Eden, and a separation of male and female figures, seen most prominently with…