Comparing The Haywain And Hell By Hieronymus Bosch

Larson, Erik. In the garden of beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitlers Berlin. 375 pages. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2011.

Throughout the story, there have been numerous sightings of an important Biblical allusion— the Garden of Eden. As this is a common folktale, it serves as a Biblical allusion as well. The story is simple: God creates Adam and Eve who are deemed innocent in the beginning of their life span. God tells them not to eat an apple from the tree of knowledge, but when the snake arrives, the snake tells them that simply, they should not comply with God’s requested wishes. While they eat the apple from the tree of knowledge, God shuns them from the Garden of Eden due to the fact that Adam and Eve, are not innocent anymore. The professor speaks about the significance of the Garden of Eden in Chapter 7, and it relates to this part of The Jungle in an indistinguishable way in How to Read Like a Professor. Jurgis, the protagonist in

the garden of Eden to help the reader to imagine where this idea is heading. In

Love, generations, cultures, and family are the main theme to talk about in shorts stories, and in the story of “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri, that is not the exception. However, it is an unusual and very enjoyable story where readers can identify themselves with it because the main characters are common people who have the same problems as many of us. If I have to summarize the story in one sentence, I can say that it describes the experiences of people who come from other cultures to the USA, and it is nuanced with an impossible love to make it more interesting and real. Also, the author divided the different parts of it with four important events which mark the transition

The book is then further continued with the exploration of creation and desecration. When it comes to the creation of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden a so-called set of guidelines were put in place for Adam and Eve to live by. A part of those rules were that could only eat from the tree of life and not from the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve violated that which resulted in the breaking of the covenant and ate from the tree of knowledge because Satan tempted them. Although the couple had gone entirely against God’s words, God promised them a savior from Satan. However a curse was inflicted on Adam and Eve by God to show the love he had for them. In Hahn’s novel he explains why God would inflict the suffering that he imposed on Adam and Eve:

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante presents the different levels of hell. According to Dante, there are nine levels in hell. It was not considered a good thing to be put in hell. You are sentenced to a hell according to your sin you committed. While he is in hell, Dante explores all the soul 's sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives while in Hell.

Hieronymus Bosch was a unique painter who portrayed the renaissance's beliefs and changing art styles in his unique paintings. His painting, The Last Judgment is an excellent example of this. By the high renaissance (the 1500s) the Gothic and Roman art styles were vanquished and replaced by imitations of Greek sculptures and oil paintings. In many of Bosch’s paintings, The Last Judgment included, he used specific techniques and styles that made his painting unique in the renaissance and no other painter came close to his art. “Bosch employed the type of fanciful forms that were often utilized to decorate borders and letters in illuminated manuscripts combining plant and animal forms with architectonic ones.” These forms give Bosch’s paintings an unparalleled surreal quality. Art styles in the renaissance had become more intricate than the Gothic and Roman styles, though The Last Judgment was not as realistic as other paintings it still embodied the renaissance’s view on

One of Bosch’s most notable works is that of “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. This work is a specialised oil painting displayed on a beautiful oak panel in the Prada Museum in Madrid, Spain. Bosch’s work is broken up into 3 separate panels each describing a different image of the world. The panel on the left shows the world shortly after its creation, the middle panel shows the garden of earthly delights whilst the final panel shows a clear depiction of hell. Bosch has uniquely included his own views of the world into his work which plays a prominent impact on its

It is hard to imagine anything more fascinating for an art historian than the symbolism in the works of Hieronymus Bosch. In fact, very little is concretely known about Bosch’s life. This muteness makes the master who was so fond of setting riddles a riddle himself . Perhaps, it is vain to surmise exactly what influenced Bosche’s kunstwollen. For this reason, a biographical approach will not suffice in coming to terms with a specific creative impulse. This essay endeavors to explain why the triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delight, epitomizes the Believing Impulse. This category evidences an interest in the divine as a dominant value. This value guides representation of the unseen world in visual media. It is an expression of the relationship between humans and the divine, and between the mundane and divine world(s).

Paradise Lost, Milton’s epic poem narrating “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme” builds on the subject matter of the Biblical story of the Genesis and sings of Satan’s temptation of “man” and his consequent fall. Having invested the first three books in revealing the rebellion in heaven and fall of Lucifer, and the divine plans concerning the fate of human kind, it is in the fourth book that Milton first takes the reader to the hallowed setting of the best part of the action, the Garden of Eden, and introduces two of his arguable protagonists, Adam and Eve, the general parents of mankind.

Estimated to have been painted sometime between 1505 and 1510, The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (who was known for his tenancy to create fantasy like figure painting of demons, machines and sometimes grotesque/frightening imagery). This oil painting is composed of three panels (triptych), measuring 13 feet by 7 feet when all the panels are open.

Art historian, Ludwig von Baldass, provides another interpretation of The Garden in which he suggests that women are the cause for mankind’s fall (Baldass). As The Garden heavily references the Bible, it seems plausible that women would be agents of chaos as it is Eve, in the first biblical story, who first ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge before giving some to the Adam. However, Bosch’s work is not a perfect rendition of the biblical story, but merely references it, as noted from the larger-than-real-life animals, oddly shaped structures, and the human’s paper white skin tones (save for a very small number of those with black skin tones). There is also no proof showing that it was a woman who ate the red fruit first as it was a scene never painted. Lastly, all people, both man and woman, were partaking in the fruit in the middle panel and all of them were being tortured equally in the final panel. Overall, the interpretation of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” representing the rise and fall of mankind through the indulging of their own vices offers the most evidence to back it up, which can be found in all three panels.

“The Haywain” which was a three panel painting. In the first panel, Bosch illustrates Adam and Eve. In the center panel, Bosch paints clergy and peasants preforming sinful behavior. Finally, in the last panel Bosch paints hell. The second example is “The Last Judgement” (as shown in figure 4) which he painted in the year of 1504. The center panel shows the fall of humanity. The remaining two interior panels show sin, chaos and violence. The final example that we can use to find out Bosch’s style of painting and different techniques he uses to paint is the “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (as shown in figure 5) which he painted from 1505 to 1506. In the painting Saint Anthony is being shown resisting evil and then following a group of believers. Bosch painted a lot of painting and is an incredibly huge influence on the art world. Bosch has influenced artists because he would use a lot of symbols in his art to show deeper meaning in the world in the Dark Ages in the world. Bosch would often paint how he imagined problems in the world would be handled or turn out often to warn people about why they should never sin. Bosch influenced people to be good citizens and attend to church by often painting fantasies about hell. Bosch was the most influential Netherlandish painter the art world has ever seen. Unfortunately, Bosch died in August 1516 (that is an estimate because the exact date is unknown) in his birthplace ’s-Hertogenbosch.

     In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and nature can best be discussed when we look at Milton's pre-fall descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. Believing that fallen humans could never fully understand what life was like in Eden and the relationships purely innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of Paradise and Adam and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan:

Catherine Breillat is another filmmaker that criticizes the aesthetics and societal demands to fit into the norms of femininity and the burden it brings to the female sex. In her film, Anatomy of Hell, she indulges in taboos and the society's indifference towards the female sex to shine a light on the traditional and oppressive views of the female body and human sexuality. She explicitly explores the depths of the female’s sex and indulges in the men’s view of the female body and the feelings it brings about. The film follows a man and a woman in a four day exploration of women's sexuality in a secluded home where the woman is in her most vulnerable stage (nudity) in hopes of understanding how men view women. The film opens up with her in a gay club where she is openly isolated as the only woman and excluded in her otherness. She is surrounded by men on men sexual activity through kissing, dancing, and oral stimulation. The scene overwhelming indulges in the isolation of women in their femininity and thus becomes a metaphor for women’s place in the world and society. Their appearance is viewed as that of Other where they can not appear and move in the same way as men and this scene explicitly shows how excluded women feel from public space in a society dominated by man. The woman enters this scene and feels overwhelmed by the masculinity surrounding her and the inferiority imposed on her through their immense presence, so she goes to the bathroom where she brushes past a man who actually sees her. She sees him the way he sees her and goes to commit suicide. In an interview with Breillat, she states “More than desire, she is looking for her sexual identity, for her ‘self.’ For her, he is a kind of image. It’s not a club for homosexuals, it’s a club where men come together, men who don’t like women, and there are many places on the planet where men don’t like women. It’s an allegory” (Kevin Murphy, Hell’s Angels: An Interview with Catherine Breillat on Anatomy of Hell). Being in a room surrounded by men that hate her, she goes to end her life. She slits her wrist and the man walks in and stops the bleeding. He asked “Why did you do that?” in which she replied “Because I’m a woman” (Catherine Breillat, Anatomy of