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    “Adam‚ Eve‚ and the Serpent” and “Pyramus and Thisbe” Creation Myth and Roman Myth The author of "Adam‚ Eve‚ and the Serpent"‚ and author Doris Gates of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from Two Queens of Heaven‚ reveal to the readers how trust and love can bring disaster especially by temptation. The authors of both myths also reflect an ideology for the audience as the rules were made to be broken. The author of "Adam‚ Eve and the Serpent" introduces the snake‚ representing as temptation‚ this character

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    like a strong relationship with Christ. As shown in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown‚" even a grounded‚ sincere Christian can have his or her faith tested. Hawthorne’s story refers to Brown’s travel companion as “the serpent‚” and though the story is allegory based the story itself raises an age old battle that is being fought to this day‚ the great controversy. The Great Controversy as it is formally known as‚ is the fight between good and evil…Michael and

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    by Adam could be why he had the blame set on him for The Fall of man. Miltons’s interpretation of The Fall had the blame placed on Adam. Adam did not bother to tell Eve of the warnings about The Tree of Knowledge or about Satan disgusted as the serpent. If Adam would have told her and would have obeyed God’s commands‚ maybe humans would be immortal like originally planned. Adam’s fondness of Eve and inability to obey led to The Fall‚ but in the end Adam and Eve walked out of the Garden of Eden

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    Book IX: The Fall

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    BOOK IX - The Fall A. Fourth invocation [1-] B. Satan returns to Eden and possesses the serpent [48-191] . . . . . 1. Satan gains secret entrance to the Garden [48-] . . . . . 2. He expresses his thirst for revenge [98-] . . . . . 3. He finds and enters the sleeping serpent [179-] C. Adam and Eve divide their work in the Garden [192-403] . . . . . 1. Eve’s proposal that they work in different areas [205-341] . . . . . . . . . . a) Eve makes the suggestion [205-] . . . . . . . .

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    Eden and Eve are depicted in Genesis as God’s creation that tends to his Garden. But the Serpent tricks Eve into eating an apple from the tree of knowledge; which God forbid‚ causing man’s fall . This is one of the most commonly known Biblical stories‚ as such; it is impossible to have an entirely consistent depiction of it. There are also various versions of the text itself. A discussion about the differences between them‚ and the causing factors‚ will entail looking at several sources. Two versions

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    legendary figure and the deeds/adventures they encountered. A significant relation of the two stories was‚ they both had a God or God(s) which is the narrator of the stories. Another connection between the two stories was when Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit‚ sinned‚ was ashamed of being naked‚ and was excluded for the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3:1-23). Inkidu was tempted by a women‚ slept with her‚ was ashamed of being naked‚ and the wild beast him (pg3&4‚ para 1-6). The

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    Cain summary

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    Cain Summary Summary (Masterplots‚ Fourth Edition) print Print document PDF list Cite While Adam‚ Eve‚ Abel‚ Zillah‚ and Adah pray to God‚ Cain stands sullenly by and complains that he has nothing to pray for because he had lost immortality when Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge. He cannot understand why‚ if knowledge and life are good‚ his mother’s deed has been deemed a deadly sin. Abel‚ Adah‚ and Zillah urge him to cast off his melancholy and join them in tending the fields. Alone

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    Paradise Lost Theme

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    When John Milton begins the poem of Paradise Lost he states that the theme of this story will be “Mans first disobedience”. The ideas of obedience/disobedience were one of the most common themes seen throughout the poem of Paradise Lost. Within it‚ all sins are seen as acts of disobedience against God. The poem tells the story of how Adam and Eve disobeyed God‚ and even further describes Satan’s disobedience. Once the first disobedient act occurs‚ there are usually two moral paths that one can take:

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    The Chrythansemums

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    The Strength to Resist In a short story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck‚ the author makes use of literary devices such as symbolism‚ characterization and setting to develop and bring out the theme. The author reveals the topic of temptation by exposing the Garden of Eden to the reader‚ as he explores the in depth the nature of sin. Steinbeck managed to expand the story of Adam and Eve to a far more relatable setting and time period. A crucial theme in this story is that temptation will always

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    Comparing Pandora and Eve

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    Pandora was the first human woman created in Greek mythology. She was created to punish mankind for the gift of fire‚ given by Prometheus. Representing divinity‚ fire was an asset intended for the gods/goddesses. Once human men acquired this gift‚ the separation between the gods/goddesses and mortals was diminished. Zeus was outraged by this blurring of divine lines‚ and upon his order‚ Pandora was fashioned of “water and earthy” by Hephaestus. Athene‚ Hermes‚ and the other gods/goddesses of Mount

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