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    represent the characters in the “Gilded Six-bits”. Husband and wife Missie May and Joe represent Adam and Eve. Slemmons represents the serpent. Also, an important setting, the Garden of Eden, is represented as Missie May and Joe’s house. The imagery of the house being happy and white means the home is pure in the same sense the Garden of Eden is, “But…

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    Eve In The Odyssey

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    It's a new morning as Adam begins to start planning the day to labor upon their 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…

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    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…

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    "With the Prince of Hell Milton reverses the functions and correspndingly the characteristicts, stressing thoseappropriate to an epic antagonist and underplaying though incorporating those of an example of evil." (Kaston 58) Kaston is saying in the poem Milton totally reverses the beliefs which have always been associated with Satan. Everyone has always portrayed Satan as evil and as the villain of everything. But Milton has used him as a hero who was doing something in which…

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    In what is considered one of the most ambitious works in literary history, John Milton uses the retelling of the Christian creation story as an allegory for what it means to be truly human. Focalized in this endeavor is man’s movement from inception, through the pursuit of knowledge, to the fulfillment and execution of free will. While Christian ideology (in other words, popular ideology) bases itself in the belief of Adam and Eve’s fall acting as man’s first sin and initial disobedience to God,…

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    Eve eats of the fruit. We are told, “Adam, indignant, would not eat with Eve.” This leads to only Eve having to leave the garden. As the poem continues God gives Eve another “helpmeet”, but Adam is left in solitude. Adam watches in envy as Eve has a life with her new partner. This contrasts the biblical story in which Adam and Eve together start a new life outside of the garden. One key turning point in the poem is between the two stanzas when there is a shift in the pronoun used for…

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    Isabella shouted. “I am not ready to marry a stranger!” “This is nonsense Bella! You will marry, your sisters have done it and so shall you! So hurry along and get dressed. He wants to meet you in the rose garden at noon!” Exclaimed, her father. As she walked the stone path through the garden, the roses stood still as if they anticipated the meeting. There he stood, under the shade of the glass gazebo. Handsome with dark curly hair, crisp blue eyes, a straight nose and a nice mouth. He was…

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    Red, the color associated with many different emotions. The most prominent of those emotions: revenge and love. These two emotions are some of the most well known emotions around the world. One could even say you can’t one without the other. Revenge is passionate, and before having revenge we must first fear something (From Hate to Love). We fear things that are different or unknown. And what is one emotion that caused the most fear? Love. Love makes us do some crazy things. Strangely, love…

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    Christian allegories, like the Garden of Eden, the serpent, the crucifixion, and heaven and hell, are popular in all great Christian works, and Hamlet is no exception. These allusions appear in books and…

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    The Navajo Creation Story

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    water (Genesis 1). In the Native American story the touching of sky and water caused the creation of the First World (Navajo Creation Story). In the Christian tradition the end of God’s six days of creation signified the creation of Earth and of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1). This is important because both of those locations were considered holy places and were signified as perfect. In the Bible once Adam and Eve sin they are immediately…

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