The Rose Garden

Capote is building the suspense early on in the book. He first makes a biblical reference when Mr. Clutter says, “an inch more of rain and this country would be paradise—Eden of earth” (12). In the Bible, Eden is known as the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve live in this Garden, but are not supposed to eat the fruit that grew on the tree of knowledge. God created an animal known as the serpent and it tricked Eve into eating an apple from the…

the biblical Garden of Eden, yet his novels and the scriptural story show distinct resemblance to the ancient Greek myth, Pandora’s Box. As Rebecca Barnes stated, “The myth of Pandora bears striking similarities to the Christian creation myth most frequently associated with Steinbeck’s novels” (Barnes, 159) Women are depicted as releasing evil throughout history, especially in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and East of Eden which hold heavy similarities not only to the story, the Garden of…

Even more than Tess, Angel Clare’s view of religion is heavily influenced by his upbringing and his attempt to break away from it. Angel’s father is a parson, and both of his brothers studied at Cambridge to become ordained. Just as Tess resents her family’s more ancient traditions, Angel tells his father he does not want to study to become ordained because the church, “refuses to liberate her mind from an untenable redemptive theolatry” (Hardy 91). Despite Angel’s desire to be different from…

We find Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Satan approaches Eve disguised as a serpent and asks Eve if it is true that God has said that they cannot eat of any of the trees in the Garden. Eve replies, “We may eat of the trees in the Garden, but God said we may not eat of the tree in the middle of the Garden, we cannot even touch it or we will die.” Satan lies to Eve and tells her they will not die. He tells her that God just does not want them to be like Him and know good from evil. What…

Somehow, at some period of time humans started to take advantage of the earth, no longer taking just what they needed but rather what they desired. Is the fall to blame for this? Did humans fall out of harmony with nature as they fell out of the garden of Eden? Whether all humans believe in this myth or not, most of the history in relationships with other humans and the natural world derive from these texts. As Milton explains in his book paradise lost, humans are doomed after the fall, humans…

always told myself “If I had been Adam or Eve, there is no way I would have disobeyed God after being so closely united to Him”. But then I think “So why do I keep sinning after every time I receive the Eucharist? Adam and Eve are created in the garden of Eden and everything is in accord with everything else. Adam and Eve are alive because the divine breath of God is in them, giving them life and man is to be co-creators with God, having dominion over all the plants and creatures ordering all…

From the earliest stories, forest settings have been powerful in the multiplicity of ways they can both impact and reflect characters and relationships. The very first story in The Bible, Adam and Eve, takes place in the Garden of Eden. Similar to The Scarlet Letter, it is a story of the loss of innocence and temptation. Forest settings provide symbolic implications of the natural world that reveal important details in the story. The majority of the novel is set in an intimate Puritan town in…

Through the stories of genesis, the allegory of the cave, and Teresa of Avila we are asked to examine our relationship to god and the world around us. Through examining these texts further we are asked our true meaning in life. The story of Genesis introduces our relationship with god and the world he has created around us. The allegory of the cave has and in depth look at the world around us, and our relationship to it. With this comes the question it asks us to reexamine everything we know to…

Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy, for example, and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I mean, I thought these books were fantastic when I was younger! Upon re-reading them, however, I have discovered, instead, that they are all fantastically xenophobic. Consider, for example, the following exchange between Mary, the protagonist of The Secret Garden, and Mary’s maidservant Martha: “It is different in India,” said Mistress Mary disdainfully. […] “Eh! I can see…

has ivy vines all around the room, with a tree trunk in the middle. The room is similar to her mother’s room and she is asking why there is a room like this in her uncle’s house? She asks questions to the gardener who tells her that it’s a secret garden belonging to her late aunt. He said it has been locked up ever since she has passed. Mary wants to know why no one has taken care of the room and why are there plants being grown inside? The final element I chose is voice and movement. Voice and…