Garden

The story of a creation cast down to a (both literal and metaphorical) hell is the basis of both John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is of no coincidence that the novel Victor’s monster comes upon and reads is Paradise Lost - from it the monster is able to find some kinship in a fictional tortured soul much like him who lost the safety of their creator’s realm and was thus left to essentially rot alone. The monster’s story echoes in many ways the story of Adam and the…

Throughout the diverse cultures and religions in the world, there are many different creation myths. Each culture has their own creation myth and there are many similarities, or motifs, within these creation myths. The three creation myth motifs that I thought were the most important were humans being made perfectly in the first attempt, an angry god punishing humans or another god, and women being created after men. Several cultures’ creation myths describe humans as being made perfectly in…

Hieronymus was 15th century Dutch painter. The artist showed the Pope art work of painter “Garden of Earthly Delights.” It was a triptych, the first exhibited Adam and Eve in the panel, in the center panel there was a landscape, while in the third panel, there is an image of hell. Leonardo said “As a child I didn’t quite understand what it all…

The Ever Wandering Constraint “Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.” (Ecclesiastes 6:9 NKJV) in this text from the Bible wandering is constrained to a negative meaning but, in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, constraint is found and broken throughout the poem. Milton uses constraint as a major thematic element throughout his poem. In this essay we will be examining the characters of Adam and Eve with their personal constraints…

Boneyard Garden Exploration Cemeteries do not frighten me; they are serene places that are frequently neglected until a new tenant comes to reside. Unlike some individuals I know, I would not mind if I lived next door to one. It is not as if the occupants are going to be climbing up from their plot and banging on my door asking for a cup of tea with a bit of sugar. The notion of my demise does make me uneasy, but no one can elude death. Sooner or later (I hope a lot later) my final abode will…

Anselm is best known for the arguments he provided in regards to the existence of God. He especially contributed to what today is known as the “ontological argument”, or an argument about the state of existing or being. Anselm provides many reasonable arguments for the existence of God, and had an avid ability to explain reason behind it. Through Cur Deus Homo, he tries to rationalize God’s method for saving the world through Christ’s death as satisfaction, Anselm has been able to offer a…

The stage play “Dr. Cook’s Garden” by Ira Levin is set Greenfield Center, a village in the state of Vermont where all the right people seem to die. The titular Dr. Cook is the town’s only doctor as well as a complex character, with skewed moral values, an emphasis on secrecy, and, in his eyes a great and important burden to carry. POINT 1. – Skewed views on morality Over the course of his career as a doctor, Leonard Cook kills a total of 33 people. Halfway through page 33 in the script book he…

In the short story ´´The Parsley Garden´´ a turkish immigrant named Al Condraj learns the consequences of his actions mentally, and physically. From this altercation he realizes that his self worth is all he needs. In the past this story takes place in North America in the early 1900s in it starts with Al Condraj finding a hammer on the floor, his only desire was to build a bench. He did not realize he was committing a crime. Al says ´´I didn mean to steal it´´. Al Condraj felt guilty of this…

Jim Jarmusch’s intriguing film “Only Lovers Left Alive” depicts the lives of two hundred centuries old lovers. In the Film, Adam and Eve have lived apart for some time, however that all changed when Eve felt that Adam was unhappy. As a result, she decided to take a flight from Tangier to Detroit. Upon her arrival, Adam and Eve courtly greeted each other. In addition, before Adam and Eve’s reunion Adam had been living in the ruins of Detroit creating his favorite art, music. During his stay…

In the story “She Unnames Them” by Ursula LeGuin, Eve from Adam and Eve is the main character. The main character makes references to the story of Adam and Eve and also mentions the garden. The authors point in the story is that in today's world there are many barriers between humans and God’s creations, one of them being the debate of whether people have names because of respect or classification. For example “They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a…