Dec 25, 2009
Cain | Cain
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
- Setting: Outside Eden
- Principal Characters: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Adah, Zillah, Lucifer
- 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
The Story:
While Adam, Eve, Abel, Zillah, and Adah prayed to God, Cain
stood sullenly by and complained that he had nothing to pray for,
since he had lost immortality when Eve ate the fruit from the tree
of knowledge. He could not understand why, if knowledge and life
were good, his mother’s deed had been a deadly sin. Abel,
Adah, and Zillah urged him to cast off his melancholy and join them
in tending the fields. Alone, Cain deplored his worldly toil. Tired
of the repetitious replies to all his questions, replies which
refused to challenge God’s will, he was no longer sure...
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