Dec 30, 2009
Cain | Cain
At a glance:
- Author: Lord George Gordon Byron
- First Published: 1821
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: The period of Genesis
- Setting: Outside Eden
- 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
Characters Discussed
Adam, the first man. He orders Cain to leave the family after the
murder of Abel.
Eve, Adam’s wife, the first woman. Because she was bitter
at the expulsion from Eden, Cain blames her for his undying bitterness against God and death and
claims that this bitterness was transmitted to him before birth.
Cain, Adam’s elder son. He refuses to pray because of the
expulsion from Eden and is sullen at the loss of immortality. He hates work and doubts
God’s goodness. Tempted, he follows Lucifer and expresses a wish to remain in Hades.
Jealous of...
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