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| Character | Eve???? | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Scolding, Crying, Flips out, Lamenting, Malicious/scheming | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1821 | |
| Period | 19th Century | |
| Genre | Drama | |
| Description | Eve curses Cain for killing Abel | |
| Details | ACT 3 Scene 1 | |
Summary
This play is a dramatization of the story of Cain and Abel. Cain, regarding his own mortality as an unfair punishment for Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden, refuses to worship God. As he refuses to participate in a family's prayer to God, he argues that he has nothing to thank God for as he is fated to die. Anxious to learn about death, Cain follows Lucifer into the Hades. Lucifer shows Cain a vision of the Earth's and human history and teaches him to accept his mortal nature and the "gift of reason" that God gave him which will bring him "nearer his spiritual nature".
In act III Cain returns to earth, still depressed and worried about death. In the climax of the play he kills his own brother. This monologue is by Cain and Abel's mother, Eve, who curses her own son for killing her brother. Cain is banished.
In act III Cain returns to earth, still depressed and worried about death. In the climax of the play he kills his own brother. This monologue is by Cain and Abel's mother, Eve, who curses her own son for killing her brother. Cain is banished.
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| EVE: Hear, Jehovah! May the eternal Serpent's curse be on him! For he was fitter for his seed than ours. May all his days be desolate! May— [ADAH: Hold! Curse him not, mother, for he is thy son— Curse him not, mother, for he is my brother, And my betrothed.] EVE: He hath left thee no brother— Zillah no husband—me no son! for thus I curse him from my sight for evermore! All bonds I break between us, as he broke That of his nature, in yon—Oh Death! Death! Why didst thou not take me, who first incurred thee? Why dost thou not so now? [ADAM: Eve! let not this, Thy natural grief, lead to impiety! A heavy doom was long forespoken to us; And now that it begins, let it be borne In such sort as may show our God, that we Are faithful servants to his holy will.] EVE: (pointing to Cain). His will! the will of yon Incarnate Spirit Of Death, whom I have brought upon the earth To strew it with the dead. May all the curses Of life be on him! and his agonies Drive him forth o'er the wilderness, like us From Eden, till his children do by him As he did by his brother! May the swords And wings of fiery Cherubim pursue him By day and night—snakes spring up in his path— Earth's fruits be ashes in his mouth—the leaves On which he lays his head to sleep be strewed With scorpions! May his dreams be of his victim! His waking a continual dread of Death! May the clear rivers turn to blood as he Stoops down to stain them with his raging lip! May every element shun or change to him! May he live in the pangs which others die with! And Death itself wax something worse than Death To him who first acquainted him with man! Hence, fratricide! henceforth that word is Cain, Through all the coming myriads of mankind, Who shall abhor thee, though thou wert their sire! May the grass wither from thy feet! the woods Deny thee shelter! earth a home! the dust A grave! the sun his light! and heaven her God! [Exit Eve.] |
