Adam & Eve, Part One

This morning in College English, We were having a Sacratic Seminar on Canterbury Tales and we decided to do a jigsaw since as a class we read seperate tale's.

*Jigsaw-Where seperate groups discuss what has happened within thier own group so everyone can be on the same page.

Well if yu have read Caterbury Tales you know that Chaucer portrays two perspectives--The Poet & The Pilgrim and he tells several tales from each charcters ponit of view. In the Wife of Bath's Tale, there is a widow who has had 5 husbands but believes she has done nothing wrong who own a rooster who has 7 Hen wives. Do yu see something wrong with that? The question posed was What do you believe the theme has to do with the Rooster/Hen relationships?

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So the group went into how Chaucer portrays ploygamy in society. The only male of the group goes back to talk about how the wife has had 7 husbands and believes nothing is wrong and how her husband has dies because of her going back to Adam and Eve and how woman is man's downfall. [The husband was unfaithful and was having horrible dreams about his death due to his checting ways and the wife tells him don't worry about his dreams so when death comes he's unsure if it's a dream or the real thing.] Me being who I am, I challange him by asking if God created Eve out Adam's rib and Adam was to protect her. When Eve was swindled by the snake,YES SHE LEFT THE COVERING OF HER HUSBAND(he's not superman he couldn't radar her out of their "living space"),she ate the apple. Then offered Adam some,Adam didn't have to take the apple nor eat the apple. Eve didn't force it into his mouth, so why is she to blame and not share it equally?

“Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”
–Matthew Henry

“Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”



Notice that God commands BOTH Adam and Eve to rule the earth and over all creation. God didn’t say, “Adam, you are to rule and Eve, well, you can go do some dishes, maybe fold a little laundry…” They were both called to rule, complementing each other, supporting each other, serving each other, sacrificing for the other, and deferring to each other.

SO THEN IN QUESTION ARE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

(opinions are your answers)

• Are Men and Women ever equal?
• Adam and Eve, Adam,or Eve? Who's the Blame?

 

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