The snake in The Garden of Eden was the main source of temptation for humans which ultimately tarnished the innocence and the serenity of the Garden. ... Furthermore, in the process of trying to share this newly found knowledge, innocence becomes even more of a foreign virtue to the rest of the boys. ... Rebellion is far from their minds due to the fact that there originally was no other more appealing option for them and the rewards they could receive from being obedient were abundant. ... This rule-abiding complex that was shared by the main characters in both tales was rapidly repressed whe...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The setting of new technology, both in the form of "iron stairs through the roof of the building" (Old) upon which the man is standing and in the form of "tiny campfires we lit at night, back at the beginning of the world" (Old), allows this man to be imagined in a world that the readers find familiar, in turn, making this poem more relatable. ... In many lines in the "Ones Who Walk Away from Olemas" the narrator clearly states that the utopia is one of your own mind's pleasure. The narrator, while laying the foundation of the utopia says, "Perhaps it wo...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Presenting numerous biblical references of women's first corruption, the entire movie is, in fact, loosely structured around the Garden of Eden in Genesis. ... On a more general level, Mary-Sue is, in fact, the true Eve of the film. Thrown into a 1950's suburban utopia, she sows the first seeds of discord and introduces a newfound freedom that literally changes the way the world looks. ... The captain of the basketball team plays her first "lucky" victim as he is shocked with more than just holding hands on their first date. ... Betty's response is more complexly representative ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Weinbrot comments that 'such a view of Juvenal's poem has little to recommend it'.5 However, Umbritius' rustic vision which Susanna Morton Braund translates as, 'here you'll have a little garden and a well so shallow it doesn't need a rope [] it's something wherever you are [] to make yourself master of a single lizard',6 does not seem like an overwhelmingly attractive prospect, and could indeed be considered ironic. I believe that simpler, more obvious irony is evident in other parts of 'Satire III'. ... Yet, in sections such as the on...

• Word Count: 2578
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Considering the point that he believed himself to be divine, descended from Zeus-Ammon, Ammon who was the serpent god, the serpent being the direct tool of Satan in the Garden of Eden. ... I believe that it was either on a film, or Miss Gunter said that his Barbour finally couldn't take it any more, and exclaimed something like; "he has horns! ... I believe that knowledge would have increased more rapidly as the cultures combined, and the world, he would have found to be bigger than he had ever imagined. ... This is the ideal scenario that things would continue going as they had been, sav...

• Word Count: 1306
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1823, Charles Lamb published his famous essay On the Artificial Comedy of the last century wherein he brings in the then radical idea that these plays embody a world of Utopia of Gallantry to which the moral ideas of the general audience ought not to apply. ... Elaborating more on the genre, one of the important features of restoration comedy is its stock characters or the Mall-Rats of its time. ... Therefore Wilmore is a character who is never satisfied (will-more). ... Willmore, the rake-hero of our play, epitomizes the libertine ideal of sexual freedom more so than Horner, the rake- hero...

• Word Count: 8176
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The people of the counterculture were more commonly called hippies. ... Communes featured gardens, restaurants, cheap alternative ways of living, and head shops. ... The Summer of Love drew more than 100,000 youth and hippies from across the country to the Haight-Ashbury district and the San Francisco Bay area. ... These two events drew a huge amount of media not only locally but nationally bringing in more and more young people from across the nation to join in this movement for the summer. ... More that 25,000 people participated in the march. ...

• Word Count: 3652
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate