Erik Van Achter's Thou Mayest: An Analysis

Erik Van Achter in his work Thou Mayest or Thou Shalt even compares Cathy to biblical Eve. He argues that as Eve is blamed for bringing sin to the humanity and persuading Adam to also commit a sin, Cathy Ames, or later named Kate, is also an evil woman who causes all the suffering and sin in the Trask family (Van Achter 321). But there is a big difference between Cathy and Eve, although it is true that Eve is often said to be the one who brought evil upon the human race. Eve, according to the biblical story, is the one, who the snake persuaded to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was the only tree that God forbidden them, Eve felt guilt, shame and regret for doing, what we now refer to, an original sin (Gen 3