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translates to delight, so the Garden of Eden is literally the garden of delight. The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible contains the book of Genesis where the creation story of Adam and Eve is told. In the biblical story of Adam and Eve, they live in the paradise of Eden until they commit the original sin. Living in the Garden of Eden seemed difficult to Adam and Eve until they came to the realization of the many other challenges life has to offer outside of the garden. Paradise is not…

When Satan set’s his eyes upon Adam and Eve, it is doubtful they he knew how easy it would be to corrupt their minds. Eve, in my opinion was probably the easiest to manipulate and that is why Satan was delighted to come upon her first rather than Adam. Eve, is just like any other woman, so it is quite easy to distinguish what one needs to do to get on her good graces. Due to it being Eve, Satan tempted her with his evil offer by using flattery on her. Apparently flattery will get you anywhere.…

Genesis, Chapter 2, gives a detailed account of the creation of man and woman. Although the first relationship in scripture was God and Adam, Adam had a desire for relationship with his own kind, “but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him (Gen. 2:20b).” God created Eve as a helper. One commentary explains the relationship between Adam and Eve this way: God decided to make a helper suitable (lit. “a helper corresponding to him,” or “a corresponding helper”) for the man (v. 18).…

A single syllable declared by a nurse at birth hinders the entire future of individuals from the very first moment they enter this world. Be it a boy, the parents, beaming with pride, may begin to pick out shades of blue for the nursery, and fill its walls with toys trucks and army men. They dream of raising a strong and righteous man with aspirations of duty and intellect. Be it a girl, they fondle her as glimpses of the subsequent pink bedspreads, dainty dolls and adorable outfits flash in…

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heav’n” (Paradise Lost Line 263). This quote is from Milton’s famous epic poem, “Paradise Lost”. The zeitgeist during this time was the fear of kings disobeying the Magna Carta and starting a war with The Church of England and countries. As a religious and political dissenter, Milton is a supporter of the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell (Enotes). He wrote several political tracts opposing the former monarchy. The English Civil War in England…

explores the most problematic characteristic in all of man-kind; savagery . Golding makes fun of the flaws in our society using the story of the Garden of Eden as a parallel to the island filled with a group of young boys stranded on an island with no clear leader. The tropical island with abundant fruit for the survivors in the island symbolizes the Garden of Eden as the children are provided with whatever they need for their sustenance. The bible describes similar circumstances as God…

today. During Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, she unintentionally became the first person to have ever disobeyed God. Prior to the creation of Eve, Adam was told by God “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Later when Eve was created, she was made aware of Gods order to not consume the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, one day in the Garden of Eden a Serpent…

In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses allegory to portray how the boys on the island represent the corruption of man. Lawrence Friedman, in his 1997 essay “Grief, Grief, Grief: Lord of the Flies”, states that “the island opens in Eden.” He uses this to show how the boys are allusions to Adam and Eve, being in paradise, bringing sin and evil, and then ultimately destroying it. In his essay, “Good Grief: Lord of the Flies as a post war rewriting of salvation history”, Marijke van Vuuren…

Grendel from Beowulf and Satan from Paradise Lost can be both compared and contrasted, shown by the text. Grendel is described as an evil, powerful monster (Beowulf 23). Satan in the story Paradise Lost, is also described as a monster born of cain and the archenemy of God (Beowulf 38-51). While Beowulf’s Grendel and Paradise Lost’s Satan exemplify power, evil, and unsuccessfulness, their tactics prove different. Grendel and Satan can be compared as powerful. We can see this in Grendel through…

A renowned American author, John Steinbeck, once said, “power does not corrupt...fear corrupts.” To twist Steinbeck’s words, perhaps it is the fear of losing power that corrupts an individual’s morals. Many works of art and literature represent the ideas of power and corruption; such works include the painting Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Massacre of the Innocents is based on a biblical scene in which the Roman King Herod learns that a new…