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Adam and Eve and Greek God Prometheus
Destiney Hunt
April 23, 2013 Hook or something interesting to start
Prometheus and Gaea are alike to Adam and Eve. They have been dishonest to their society. They have fallen in love with their spouse. They also have a guilty conscience. There are both from two different time periods. In Anthem, the council designed the city. They designed humankind and the peoples’ living. In comparison, God created Adam and Eve. He created where they lived and restricted the things they were able to do. God was the creator of the human race, and the council was the creator of the Utopian society. Although, Prometheus and Gaea lived in a collectivism society. In The Unmentionable times, is set in the dark ages of the future. Equality 7-2521 Experiments to electricity to become a scholar in the world of scholars but he is similar to the Greek god Prometheus. The Golden One is proud and vain, strong and bitter. She loves Equality 7-2521 because he is different from most men around her. Equality 7-2521 went against the communistic control and interrupted the gathering of the Scholars. Equality 7-2521 had to leave, if he didn't he would have been exiled. Fortunately for him, the Golden One followed him into the Uncharted Forest. They found an old house and started to have a family. The old house was from the Unmentionable times. They could connect and create an actual civilization. In the story of Adam and Eve, God told the couple that he had everything they needed, all they wanted to know and understand. God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. His one regulation, Eve could not follow. The Garden of Eden had a “forbidden” tree. The Forbidden Tree had a forbidden fruit. God told Adam and Eve to not, absolutely NOT eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.

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