Eve and Pandora
Historically, women have been viewed as the downfall of mankind. Temptation, lust, and vanity are the detriments supposedly beset by the first woman. Whether Eve or Pandora came first is irrelevant. They will be remembered as the ones responsible for ruining man and mankind forever. However, both stories should be explored to determine if the myths hold some truth or if it just the result of a sexist storyteller in a male dominated society during biblical times. In the story of Adam and Eve, woman is created merely from the rib of Adam. In the book of Genesis, it says, "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.'"(Genesis, 2:21). Since man was created in the image of God, Eve should not be held completely accountable as the root of all evil. We can derive from this story, however, that because Eve was made from only part of Adam, that she is the weaker sex. Once the serpent had swayed her
With the Pandora story, the man was cursed with only the flaw of desiring an 'evil' woman. Not to mention the serpent who was created by none other than God himself. The gods, in the other story, created all of the terrible things and are also at fault for what took place. Ultimately, the difference between the God depicted in the Bible and Zeus from Hesiod's story is that God is loving, caring, and merciful and Zeus was fulfilling his own personal vendetta. The tree of knowledge holds in it shame and discontent. ' In my opinion, every culture has been jaded to believe that woman is to blame for the unpleasantness of the world. I suppose that the gender of the child determines its worth as a human. Who is to say that if the roles were reversed that Adam would not have persuaded Eve just the same? Adam ate the fruit after just a little coaxing from Eve, so in my opinion, he was just as at fault as Eve. Of course, to some extent, we are supposed to believe they all are perfect. The intention of God was merely to create compatible beings and to reproduce his human species. judgment to indulge in tasting the forbidden fruit, it is thought that she used her charm and grace to persuade Adam to do likewise. Therefore, it is hypocritical to say that Eve was at fault for the destruction of man when Adam may have done the same exact thing in the same situation. Lust and sex are some of the greatest aspects of life. As some strange quirk of fate, hope was thrown into the box, which does not escape. His one-dimensional nature allowed him to be seduced by 'the weaker sex.
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