Garden State Parkway

Roughly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. How is this possible if marriage is supposed to be an end-all with the person you love most? What once appealed to someone and made them fall in love with another is often what causes the end of the relationship. The mind manipulates…

The novel, Lord of the Flies, can be examined as a Biblical Allegory as many parallels are drawn between the novel and the story of the Garden of Eden. Golding uses similar environmental factors that can be compared between the two stories. The powerful theme of temptation is also evident, and represents how evil can sometimes over power against good. A third parallel can be drawn on the idea that the boys are under the presence of God, but are left by themselves on this microcosm without a…

When an angel opposes the power and might of God, the almighty deity inevitably banishes him from the realm of Heaven and leaves him to rule over nothing more than a wasteland. In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, such is the case of Satan, a former subject of the Lord fallen from his grace. God banishes the angel to Hell, where Satan, left to ponder the quality of his newfound life, slowly accepts his fate and addresses the presumed advantage of being free from the clutches of God, whose…

Before continuing on further explanation, the co-existing of Satan mentioned to be within Chillingworth; He was being compared to Satan. In theory, “Satan was defined as an angelic who fell from his position in heaven due to sin. In other words, [Satan was once Gods angel, but he became jealous of God for being such robust and did not like God’s authorities. He blinded by jealous which leads him into the wrong path.] (GotQuestion 1)”. The story about Satan allows the readers to make connections…

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…

The bible clearly states in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The process of the world being created took six days, during those six days God created Land, water and sky, land, Night and Day, fish and birds, animals and lastly mankind. Each of theses 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…

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…

foundation 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…

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…

her 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…