Cain (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Lord George Gordon Byron
- First Published: 1821
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: The period of Genesis
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Immortality, Exile or expatriates, Sin or Original sin, Antiheroes, God, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Legends, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Biblical times, Devils or demons, Romanticism, Sacrifice, Mortality, Satan or Satanism, Angels
- Locales: Eden
Places Discussed
Lands outside paradise. Complaining that his father has been tamed and his mother has forsaken the desire for knowledge that led to her exile from Eden, Cain agrees to go with Lucifer on a tour of the places that will give him the knowledge denied him by God. Lucifer convinces Cain that any place outside paradise is a place of human ignorance. By accompanying him, Lucifer suggests, Cain can satisfy his quest to learn the “mystery of my being.”
Abyss of space. Lucifer calls infinite space the “phantasm of the world; of which thy world/ Is but the...
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