Cain and Abel

starts with an “original sin.” The original sin is the father lying to get the job in Washington. The story continues its retelling of the Cain and Abel story with the two brothers, Adam and Charles. When Adam receives favour over Charles, Charles brutally beats him. The original sin continues with Adam’s children, Aron and Cal. Aron becomes Abel and Cal becomes Cain. Thankfully, the cycle ends with Cal who gains forgiveness and a blessing, “timshel” or “thou mayest, from his father. Cal is…

In order for the agriculturalists to expand and fulfill their Taker "destiny,” spreading the way of life they believed was right, they had to take land from the herders. This is represented in the story of Cain’s murder of Abel. From here the agricultural revolution took off, and the taker culture expanded, while the smaller leaver culture was almost forgotten, but did not die out. The use of the terms “leavers” and “takers” by Quinn, and his explanation of their historical…

has partially disowned his brother, he still has love and care for his that only a sibling could understand. The relation between the two brothers mirrors the relationship between the brothers Cain and Abel in the Bible. In that story, Cain asks God is he supposed to be his brother’s keeper after murdering Abel. In Sonny’s Blue our narrator is worried about his brother wellbeing after he has already disowned him for years. The narrator can’t seem to get his brother off of his mind even as he…

When jealousy takes over Cain and leads him to murder his Brother, God questions his involvement. Cain replies, “I know not. Am I my Brother’s Keeper”(Genesis 4:1-8). The concept of social responsibility and looking after one another first addressed in the bible story of Cain and Abel, was also addressed by Mitch Albom in his novel The Five People You Meet In Heaven. The protagonist in the novel, an elderly maintenance worker at an amusement park, begins his journey of self discovery with his…

Laudato Si’ is the second encyclical of Pope Francis – Our Holy Father addresses all people, not just the faithful. In the closing paragraph of the encyclical, Pope Francis writes on the negative effects he has seen/experienced concerning God’s creation, “current attitudes and behaviors are not only wrong in a moral sense, they are also wrong in a practical sense. They have not worked. They have given us a world that is broken and unjust: where the wealthy worry about obesity while the…

Villains that are portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays are usually shallow, confident men who feel no remorse for their actions. These criteria initially apply to Claudius, the main antagonist in Hamlet, as he delivers his “inaugural” speech honoring Old Hamlet. But after watching a play, made by Hamlet, which accurately depicts how he had murdered his brother, Claudius falls into a deeply conflicted state of mind where he questions the morality of his actions. In the soliloquy that follows the play…

brother after leaving for the war. James Tackach writes in "The Biblical Foundation of James Baldwin 's 'Sonny 's Blues '" that Sonny 's brother comes a "contemporary Cain" because of the negligence (Tackach 114). This situation represents another biblical story of Cain and Abel. The narrator becomes Sonny 's "keeper" just as Cain was to Abel (Tackach 114). The narrator does not succeed in his duty as "his brother 's keeper," failing to keep his promise to his mother. At the beginning of the…

In both the time periods of the play Hamlet and Shakespeare’s life, the fundamental basis of morality was established through the ideas of Christianity. By critically analyzing Hamlet through the Freudian psychoanalytical lens, it may be inferred that Shakespeare projected his personal views of Christianity and its followers by using the character Claudius as a tool. In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare uses a shallow but religious morality to create an illusion that Claudius is a good man…

reconciliation between siblings, the stories of Jacob’s reconciliation with his estranged brother Esau (Gen ) and Joseph forgiveness of his brothers (Gen 45: 1-28). Prior to these isolated incidents the previous mention of siblings rivalry was the story of Cain and Abel (Gen), which ultimately ends with fratricide. Even within the reconciliation narratives found in Genesis, the only positive one discovered is in Genesis 45: 1-28, the other Esau’s forgiveness of Jacob ends on a bittersweet note.…

and knowledge causes him to look foolish. This is shown in act two scene one as Brady is testifying on the stand, and Drummond asks him whether he had ever wondered about where Cain’s wife came from if in the beginning there was only Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. Brady responds, “The Bible satisfies me, it is enough.” (pg. 81). This quote shows Brady’s ignorance by displaying how he is ignorant of any knowledge outside of The Bible because he is simply satisfied with what is given in The Bible.…