This account of our first fathers gives a great amount of insight where our tendencies of defiance originated. ... Moments after giving life to Adam, God created a garden east of Eden to house this newly born being. God then placed the tree of life and the tree knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden. ... The rules that God set forth were: that they should eat from any tree in the garden "but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they should not, for when they partake of it they should surely die." ... God sees the potential defiance in Adam and in an attempt to reform...

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Milton does not give Adam and Eve a child-like innocence, so they are not free from "imperfections" that religion says only came after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. ... Even after Eve dreams about eating from the tree he reassures her that she is good and the dream does not make her bad. ... Immediately after Eve ate from the forbidden tree she no longer felt it was okay for her to be inferior and instead wanted to be Adam's equal. ... "O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare/ To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught/ To counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall"...

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Satan is the primary scapegoat, as he was the one who seduced Eve into taking the fruit from the Forbidden Tree of Knowledge. But could Eve not have easily refused to give in to temptation? ... This is an altered reproduction of The Expulsion from Eden in Genesis, when God asks Adam, "Hast thou eaten of the tree" (Ch. 3, 12)? Adam replies, "the women whom thou gavest to be with me" made him eat from the tree, and Eve then proceeds to blame the serpent for beguiling her (Ch. 3, 13). ... They were bound to take from the Tree of Knowledge. ...

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The tree of life and death, the eternal fountain of purity flowing. ... Instead of a tree of life; the shrub of death. ... The garden and its central highlight, the purple flowered shrub, resembling the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Life, are the central scheme around which the story revolves. ... She withholds returning his affections, but does not give explanations, which leaves him with only his imagination. ... Baglioni justifies himself by imagining that he is giving Rappaccini his just reward, the "upshot" of his experiment, death to Beatrice. ...

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Another main question is why God went easy on Adam and Eve after they had went against his wishes and ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Originally God had stated that, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die," (Genesis 2.16, 2.17). Adam and Eve had ignored this warning however and had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge after the devil had tempted them to. ... He demonstrated forgiveness by giving them another chance to live their lives and showed mercy by not ...

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Adam and Eve were banished from the paradise of Eden for eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge against God's strict commands. During the Enlightenment, Western society as a whole began to "eat of the Tree of Knowledge", as scientific principles became favored over religious ones in probing the secrets of creation. ... By eating from the Tree of Knowledge, he has unwittingly banished himself from the realm of not only an idyllic ignorance composed of harmless speculation, but has also alienated himself from the rest of humanity. ... The Monster is the modern, existential man, who is lack...

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We are able to see how giving God was toward Adam and Eve, how he gave them an endless supply of food, love, and shelter. ... The tree of knowledge of good and evil represents the curiosity that humans have toward temptation and how many are drawn to it and can't stay away. ... Evil will always find a way to tempt us but, if we allow ourselves to give in there will always be consequences. ... We may find it in a thing like Eve did in the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ...

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Peter had bought for himself years before; a little triangle of sand running out into the water, with a bath-house and seven shaggy pine trees on it" (57). ... The water represents baptism, or a cleansing of sins, while the seven pine trees are a reference to the seven deadly sins. ... Adam and Eve, in their greed, ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. ... "What he had not known was that, at a given time, that first nature could return to a man, unchanged by all the pursuits and passions and experiences of his life; untouched even by the tastes and intellectual activities whi...

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When Earth was created, God planted many plants in the Garden of Eden and in the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ... (Genesis 3:14)" These characters illustrate that God does give each of us the choice to do good or evil and based on our choice there will be significant consequences. ... Did he give it to you? ... On his deathbed, Adam blesses his only living son, giving him the choice to live his life in either good or evil from that minute onward. ... Through the characters of Cathy, Adam, Charles, and Cal, Steinbeck gives the F...

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This was because of water that continually sprung up from the ground and the lavish trees that provided fruit of every kind. ... There would be no death because it is impossible to die in the presence of the Life Giver which is God. ... But Skinner gives hope that the community can make right the wrongs by being obedient to practices established long ago. ...

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This was because due to water that continually sprung up from the ground and the lavish trees that provided fruit of every kind. ... There would be no death because it is impossible to die in the presence of the Life Giver which is God. ... But Skinner gives hope that the community can make right the wrongs by being obedient to established practices long ago. ...

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Steinbeck repeatedly refers to Cathy as a "serpent" which in the Bible, is Satan in the form of a snake that provokes Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ... Cathy becomes pregnant and gives birth to yet another set of boys who will eventually represent Cain and Abel as well. ... Lee, his caregiver, gives him a wake-up call and tells him that he is not different from everyone else and that every human also has to deal with the difficulty to do good....

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The book "Paradise Lost" is quite confusing to read, not only the language, (which I need a dictionary to understand), but also the ideas. I think Milton himself was quite unsure where he really was going with that. From the first view it appeared that the whole book is basically the re-telling ...

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