EN108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cursed Earth
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Most of us have an integral memories of the gardens (green spaces) in our lives. First taste as environment as a natural phenomena. Gardens play a central role in english literature, and in our culture. Paradise, everything is good, natural, not mechanical, god is presumably the maintainer. Bitter due to temptation and succumbing to the temptation, god kicks adam and. The recovery of eden story is perhaps the most important mythology humans have developed to make sense of their relationship to the earth - merchant, Mythology: the study of the cultural stories. Think about what the text says about eden, past and present. Our first vocation is to be gardeners. Doesn"t have the power or the authority to change anything. Animals are provided, like the garden itself, for mans care and mans sustenance. If eden was a gift of plenty, then earth as we know it now is cursed.
