Eve Ensler

In Mary Douglas’s excerpt Purity and Danger, she says, “where there is dirt there is a system” (36). Douglas is saying that yes, things can be dirty, but we are the ones who define why something is dirty. By doing so, we create a system. The system is just the ideas we make up of what is considered dirty and what is considered sanitary. Since we are the ones who define the system of dirt, everyone’s system could be different. That means that someone’s idea of dirt differs to someone else’s…

story of “Adam and Eve” is one commonly known. In Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “The Gilded Six-Bits” similar themes have arisen. Hurston has found new ways to represent all characters and objects from the biblical story into her own. Not only are the character’s present, but there’s two common themes as well; The concept of eating fruit from the forbidden tree, and the representation of God and religion. With her short story, Hurston has been able to retell the tale of Adam and Eve. There…

garden. Feelings towards Eve as though they should "divide our labours" and go separate ways "till Noon". (214) As he reminds Eve "despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame" (253); extremely conscious of what could happen. While Adam continues giving forth order. Eve's human authority and her responsibility to comply is underestimated by her already "by thee infomd I learne" what could happen when she over hears "as in a shadie nook I stood behind" and her strength to void. Eve wasn't in terms…

to note that in Greek culture the sacrifice of an animal or agriculture, can be seen as an offering to the Gods. Lastly, Deception is a repeating theme in both the Book of Genesis and Hesiod 's Theogony. In Genesis, for example, the snake deceives Eve in the Garden of Eden. " Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God…

Santa clause the jolly man that comes only once a year, is beneficial to children. He teaches them to believe in doing the impossible, to be respectful towards others, and gives children happy memories to look back on. The man that can deliver presents to all the children in the world in a single night, is a story told to children about how a man named Santa clause does the impossible every Christmas Eva. In a world where people are constantly fighting each other to get places in life, it all…

In the first book of Milton’s Paradise Lost, he describes evil’s violent and elusive nature. Satan has been recently sent to Hell, a place that is the epitome of the character of Evil. Taking in the atmosphere he says, “As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames/No light, but rather darkness visible” (I. 37-48). The portrayal of Hell as a lightless fire showcases its violent nature. The word “fire” serves as an indicator of evil’s anger, intense, and powerful nature. Labeling the fire as…

suffering, confession, and redemption. The first reference made from the religious perspective is concept of dealing with temptation and forbidden fruit being eaten when an authority figure cautions them about it. In the Bible, the story of Adam and Eve is based on the eating of…

created women, Eve. All this happen on the sixth day. God demand Adam and Eve, they had all the fruit and cattle they can eat but not the forbidden tree, it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil and guaranteed they will die from eating it. After she ate the fruit, Eve gave some to Adam. They both realized they were naked and cover themselves and hid from God, because they knew he will be anger. That’s when God realizes they ate the fruit, God cursed Adam, Eve, and the serpent. To Eve, Adam…

Life has infinite meaning. As long as humans have existed, there is no one definite answer as to how one should live their lives. In various plays, novels, and passages, the meaning of life has been pondered upon by numerous authors, in a variety of different ways. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Book 4 of Genesis, and John Milton’s Book 9 of Paradise Lost, each of the principal characters undergo a pattern of seeking truth, entrapment, and…

Milton tells the story of the Garden of Eden in rich, full detail. He expanded the tale of the Serpent trying to convince Eve to do an act forbidden by God. It was described briefly in the bible but here, though fiction, gives more of a sense on what happened. I will dissect the fifteen lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX, where the Serpent presents his argument to Eve that she should eat the fruit from the forbidden tree. This selection shows how smooth and sly the serpent is in his manipulation.…