Sacrifice is an essential factor in miracle plays. It plays an important role in the plays and in the beliefs of people. To sacrifice something is to give up something and you never know the value of possessions until they're gone.
Sacrifice, according to religious rituals means an act in which a consecrated offering is made to a god or other spiritual being in order to establish, perpetuate, or restore a sacred bond between humanity and the divine. These offerings may consist of humans or animals (blood offerings) or fruits, crops, flowers and wine (bloodless offerings). In all the miracle plays there is some sort of sacrifice, whether it be to God or within themselves. Throughout the plays sacrifice is explored. The examination of sacrifice in The Creation of Adam and Eve, The Fall of Man, Cain and Abel, Noah's Flood and Abraham and Isaac will be realized in the following passages. Although sacrifice has one meaning it is expressed in many different ways throughout these different miracle plays.
The creation of man may have many different views according to the various religious aspects that there are. The Story of the Creation tells that God created heaven and earth, plants and animals, and as the last thing he created man. God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; ." (Gen.1.26). "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen.1.27). There is no doubt that God created man then female, but there is an argument whether Eve was created from dust or a piece of rib from Adam. No matter what the real story is the fact remains that they were created and our existence is based upon them. One may wonder, what is the sacrifice that was made or occurred in The Creation of Adam and Eve? The sacrifice isn't from them, but from God. How? You may ask, well let me explain. It was a sacrifice for God to create something in his own image, for this takes away from his individuality.
