When I ask this question, I don't mean that Adam and Eve could be the relative of
Zeus and Prometheus, what do I mean? I mean, are Adam and Eve's version of
punishment more related, or more different, than Zeus's punishment on Prometheus? The
method you would use to answer this question is known as, compare and contrast.
Compare and contrast is when you take a certain topic, idea, object, etc., and talk about its
differences and similarities. Now to make these comparisons, you must know the story, so
here's a brief summary of both. Adam and Eve were created after all of the Earth was
finished. God allowed to drink of the fresh water from the spring, and to eat the animals
and plants as needed. But they were specifically told not to eat from the Tree of
Knowledge. One day a snake persuades Eve to eat from this tree a sweet apple, after she
bites she offers it to Adam, who reluctantly takes a bite. They are punished by being
kicked out of the Garden of Eden, stripped of their immortality, and forced to suffer on
their own. In the story of Prometheus, after humans are given gifts from Epimetheus,
Prometheus is asked to give a gift that would really help humans survive. So Prometheus
gave the humans fire and this angered Zeus. Also he would not tell Zeus which child of his
would dethrone him, so he was chained to a rock, and every day a eagle came to eat at his
liver. How are these stories different? How are they similar?
There are only to similarities that I could think of between these two stories.
Similarities are the things topics, ideas, objects, etc., have in common. My first similarity is
in the type of punishment they endure. After Adam and Eve our kicked out the Garden of
Eden they have to struggle on their own, and learn how to survive without to much help
from God. They have to grow their own crops and raise their own cattle. Also all their
children will forever b...