Oct 13, 2008
After the Fall demonstrates one man's struggle to survive in a fallen world. The fall from Eden is a recurrent theme in American literature—America, after all, was established as a kind of New World Garden, a bountiful paradise that would yield endless riches. It would bring forth an ideal community in which all individuals could live together in harmony and prosperity. The possibility of a fallen Eden, however, always lurked in the Puritan commitment to the individual's natural propensity for evil. Some of the greatest American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville,...
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