In Room Of One's Own By Virginia Wolf

When Satan planned his rebellion, his head burst into flames. The serpent woman, also known as his daughter Sin, grew out of Satan’s head because of his revolt. Sin can be compared to the creation of Eve in that both women are created from their partners. Eve was created from Adam’s rib and Sin was created from Satan’s head. Paradise Lost infers that women, who are symbolized by Eve and Sin, could not have originated nor prosper without the help of a man and that women are dependent on their male counterparts.

In her book A Room of One’s Own, (which is actually extrapolated from a series of lectures), author Virginia Woolf sets forth her thesis that a woman has to have money and a room of her own if she is to be a productive writer. She then offers up fictionalized scenarios of how females were oppressed in her lifetime (the book was published in 1929) and even provides a fictionalized, albeit probably accurate, accounting of how this oppression in the 20th century is a continuation of historical female oppression. When examining modern day concepts of literature, A Room of One’s Own, makes comments on the state of women’s literary writings, and, in analyzing contemporary comments on this work, it is clear that Woolf’s work still applies in the

She believes that the purpose of the poem was to provoke readers (Webber 514). The confusion of Milton’s explanation and God’s intentions arise when Milton makes a claim that Adam and Eve’s plunge into the world of sin was indirectly the result of Lucifer, a serpent wondering around in the Garden of Eden. At this time, Satan becomes the central focus of this poem. Routinely in epic novels and poems the epic character narrates the tale. So for Satan to be the main narrator in books one and two begs to question whether Milton has lost focus in his story and inadvertently portrayed Satan as the epic hero.

by eating the fruit even though he didn't want to. Eve was brainwashed by the serpent because she was mentally weak. Adam and Eve later go on to get married and have two kids named Cain and Abel. Cain ends up killing his brother Abel because Abel’s heart was faithful and was devoted to God and his commitment was trustworthy in God’s eyes. When Cain realized that God was not pleased with his sacrifice but accepted Abel’s, he became extremely jealous and felt a strong hatred in his heart and jealous of his brother and killed him out of envy. One thing that I noticed when it came to gender roles was that the serpent understood who to manipulate. God directly talked to Adam then next in line was Eve. The serpent understood that Adam was more than

Upon reading the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner, I felt a deep sadness and fear. The thought that there is such evil and darkness in the world chills me to my core. I have watched numerous criminal shows and knew evil existed, however this story includes different aspects of evil that made me realize how it can disguise itself in normal ways. The darkness within this story isn’t just with The Misfit, it also includes the hatefulness and evil aspect of the other characters as well. Pure evil exists among us daily even though we may not recognize it. We, as a society, have numbed ourselves to the darkness that exists, believing that it won’t touch us if we are good people. The truth is that evil can touch any of our lives at any time. This story is like many others where there is good versus evil, however evil was the victor and that was hard to process for me.

When reading Genesis, it becomes clear to the reader that the existence of evil isn’t ignored. The origin of evil has a major connection with the original sin that Adam and Eve committed when they had eaten from the tree of knowledge. Sin was very personal to Adam and Eve, but also it was transmitted to their descendants. The serpent seems to be the agent in temptation and he was able to trick Eve into not only eating the apple, but also sharing it with Adam. The serpent is the mythical figure that which is recognized as Satan according to the biblical traditions.1 “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God hade made” (Gen 3:1) The devil seems to be a master of cunning and first addresses himself to Eve. The

The reason for this is because Adam is the leader. Even after Eve had already disobeyed God and ate the fruit, Adam was supposed to be strong and neglect the fruit for himself. Interestingly, it was not that Eve applied to Adam intellect in order to get him to eat the fruit like Satan did to Eve. He questions how he would feel if another Eve was made for him and concludes that he could never forget the first Eve. Thus, "Against his better knowledge, not deceived,/ But fondly overcome with female charm"

In the Next Room is a play by Sarah Ruhl. The play contains the early history of the sexual device which is a vibrator. Dr. Givings used the vibrator as a clinical treatment to give women orgasm to cure hysteria. Dr. and Mrs. Givings always have unsatisfactory sexual relationship. Mrs. Givings was not able to breast feed her baby that Dr. Givings’ patient Mrs. Daldry introduce a wet nurse Elizabeth. Elizabeth visits Mrs. Givings and wet nurse the baby. One time Leonard Living an artist visits Dr. Givings’ clinic and request Elizabeth to draw her wet nursing a baby. Elizabeth once told Mrs. Givings and Mrs. Daldry that she can orgasm during the sex with her husband. Later on, with jealousy Mrs. Givings strongly demand love from her husband and they seek a true love by having sex. They finally recovered their relationship.

He started out by tricking Eve when he told her “You will be like God”, wanting Eve to think God was being selfish. When God said “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you must surely die”, he was warning Adam and Eve (Life Application Study Bible New International Version, Genesis 2:16-17). Then when Satan said to Eve, “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, he was trying to convince her to eat from the tree (Life Application Study Bible New International Version, Genesis 3:5). Satan had tempted Eve when he said, “You will be like God”; which becoming like God wasn’t a bad thing to Eve.

In Betsy Erkkila analysis I agree with her whole analysis. Throughout her analysis she talked about how Walt Whitman wrote about being an individual. Erkkila describes in Whitman’s poem, One’s Self I Sing, Whitman’s talks about a separate person being part of a whole group. He also sees it as a Democratic, representing the mass of people. Whitman also talks about in his poem about the balance to be a struggle. Erkkila says “Balanced between the separate person and the en masse”. When she talks about “the separate person’ she is talking about how Whitman talks about how he sees himself as a separate person. She also says “the en masse”, she is talking about a group as a whole. She is talking about Whitman again in this situation. Whitman talks

Erickson attributes Eve’s fall to her lack of knowledge relative to Adam, which then becomes the basis of her misogyny argument. However, Eve’s attempt to eliminate the discrepancy between her and Adam’s knowledge can never lead to the fall of prelapsarian marriage. Satan once questions: “Knowledge forbidden?/ Suspicious, reasonless”(PL 4.515-16). Milton’s readers should also have such confusion. However, we never get such information from God or his couriers that any acquisition of knowledge is forbidden, at least at the level of “earthly knowledge”, a term St. Augustine used in order to draw a distinction from unavailable “heavenly knowledge”: Since his early masque named Comus, Milton had contemplated the idea of temperance through the rest of his career. In Comus, the Lady’s appetite for “holy dictate of spare Temperance”(Comus 767)

How does Satan's temptation of Eve pick up the motifs of overweening pride and the fatal desire to emulate God (traits shared by Satan and Dr. Faustus -- and perhaps by Milton

After we consider God as the king and the Satan as the revolutionary, we now focus on analyzing Adam and Eve. It is clear that Adam and Eve are normal people in Paradise Lost. Thus, Adam and Eve shares the same characteristic of being stupid as typical normal people. In other words, they do not have their own independent thought. That is, before eating the apple, Adam and Eve eat, work, sleep, have sex, and obey and eulogize the God without thinking about the fundamental ideas behind everything they did. As Milton writes in Book V and Book IV, the way that Adam and Eve are controlled by the God is exactly the same as the way that normal people are ruled by emperors. As long as Adam and Eve have food to eat and place to stay, they just simply

Satan approached Eve and told her that the only reason God restricted them from eating the "Forbidden Fruit" was because God knew it would make them like God. By implying God had ulterior motives, Satan created an avenue through which he could manipulate Eve. Humans learned a terrible lesson that day, and now, even thousands of years later, that lesson continuously reverberates in our behavior as a whole.

Through his work of Paradise Lost, Milton exposes his view that God allows suffering in order for a greater good of the human race to exist. Milton uses the Fall- both Satan’s and Adam and Eve’s- as a device to demonstrate human corruption, as each fall is “a step down from a higher being to a lower being”. Both the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Adam & Eve are falls away from a position of divine power to a position of chaos and disorder- something Milton illustrates as an undesirable event. Milton introduces Satan as a selfish, power-hungry character; similar to an individual of today’s society who believes they are the greatest- nobody can ‘one-up’ them. He inherently denies of the existence of a greater God, as that would discredit his own belief that he is the utmost being. Instead of blind denial, Satan instead builds up a power against God himself, in an effort to “contest the throne of Heaven” (slide). However, this in of itself is a hypocrisy on his own beliefs, as he cannot be autonomous in a search for autonomy, since he is unable to defeat God on his own. This is Satan’s first fall, because he has now relinquished his stance on denying a being greater than himself, and must maintain his uprising unless he wants to face what Milton would consider a second Fall. Milton uses Satan as a representation of disobedience within the human race; he is the ‘wrong direction’ in the two paths of moral decisions. He uses Satan to show that rebellion that stems from self-