西洋文學概論  

 

CONTENT OF THE COURSE

1.Quiz*50

2.western literature

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Satan(serpont, prime of darkness, Lucier)

Satan is primarily an accuser and adversary, a decidedly malevolent entity, also called the devil, who possesses abhorrent qualities.

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God created humankind in God's image and instructed them to multiply and to be stewards over everything else that God had made. God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is told that he can till the ground and eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs to be Adam's companion. They are innocent and unashamed about their nakedness. However, a serpent deceives Eve into eating fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. These acts give them additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil.God later curses the serpent and the ground. God prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of their sin of disobeying God. Then he banishes them from the Garden of Eden.

＊Forbidden fruit - fig leaves

Adam and Eve were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans.

 

＊Adam's apple

＊The serpent

The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to humankind and represent dual expression of good and evil.

 

＊original sin

Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

＊seven deadly sins

The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices of Christian origin.According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth, which are also contrary to the seven virtues.

※THY NAME IS WOMAN

Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!—

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§ Phoebus (Apollo) →smart

§ Ares+Aphrodite → illicit love

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§VOCABULARY

＊ clay / ash / dust

 

Fra-  : easily broken

for eaample:

fragile (adj.) 易碎的      

fraction (n.) 碎片       

frailty(n.) 虛弱;脆弱