Lost in Austen

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…

Immortality and Original Sin The concept of original sin evidenced in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can also be located in other major works, such as John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus; this idea of seeking human infallibility is a result of a human fear of death and craving for knowledge. The innate awareness that humans are not immortal creates the idea of original sin that can attempt to justify our impermanence. Doctor Faustus makes his infamous Faustian…

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…

and Mary Shelly is no stranger to this common practice of intertextuality. Throughout her own science-fiction novel, she pulls upon many famous works which permeate throughout Frankenstein. From Plutarch’s Lives of the Romans and Milton’s Paradise Lost to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelly utilizes these famous works to foreshadow plots and mold the characters…

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 dissention into personal hell with some achieving a final release. Although we like to believe that we have all the answers to how we are going to live our…

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. Satan wants humanity to fail and for humans to be as…

Paradise Lost was a controversial poem that appeared in the 17th century by the author John Milton. This epic poem mostly occurred during the beginning of time introducing God, Satan, Adam and Eve. Although Milton’s intention was to educate Christians on God’s reasoning, readers were opposed of the poem. Unlike traditional ways that most people were taught, this poem was an eye opener. Most people were offended and also calling Milton a Satanist. Others on the other hand took insight on what…

Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel that is set several years after the conclusion of the Great War. Characters in this novel are part of the Lost Generation, those who appear “disillusioned by the staggering number of WWI casualties” (De Greef, Worksheet). Both having returned from war, Jake, the narrator, and Brett, the main female character, epitomize this sense of disorientation and desire for joy. Throughout The Sun Also Rises, Jake and Brett are lost in their searches for…

Before ever reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I was tainted by the view society created with movies and shows. From this particular view, the creation is the monster and there is no open discussion. He is the one that everyone is fearful of within the story, similar to Mary Shelley’s version, and the creator is a mad scientist. The creation in some of these cases is also known as Frankenstein. Therefore, reading Mary Shelley’s novel was a total wakeup call tearing down the closed-minded…