Abel And Cain Essay Example For Students

Abel And Cain Essay A monolog from the play by Lord Byron NOTE: This monolog is reproduced from Lord Byron: Six Plays. Master Byron. Los Angeles: Black Box Press, 2007. EVE: Hear, Jehovah!May the interminable Serpents revile be on him!For he was fitter for his seed than ours.May every one of his days be desolate!He hath left thee no sibling, Adahâ€Zillah no husbandâ€me no child! for thusI revile him from my sight for evermore!All bonds I break between us, as he brokeThat of his inclination, in yonâ€Oh Death! Death!Why didst thou not take me, who previously acquired thee?Why dost thou not all that now? Why dost thou not take far off Incarnate SpiritOf Death, whom I have carried upon the earthTo toss it with the dead. May all the cursesOf life be on him! what's more, his agoniesDrive him forward oer the wild, as usFrom Eden, till his kids do by himAs he did by his sibling! May the swordsAnd wings of red hot Cherubim seek after himBy day and nightâ€snakes spring up in his pathâ€Earths natural products be remains in his mouthâ€the leavesOn which he lays his head to rest be strewedWith scorpions! May his fantasies be of his victim!His waking a nonstop fear of Death!May the reasonable waterways go to blood as heStoops down to recolor them with his furious lip!May each component evade or change to him!May he live in the aches which others pass on with!And Death itself wax something more regrettable than DeathTo him who originally familiar him with man!Hence, fratricide! hereafter that word is Cain,Through all the coming hordes of mankind,Who will despise thee, however thou wert their sire!May the grass shrink from thy feet! the woodsDeny thee cover! earth a home! the dustâ€A grave! the sun his light! what's more, paradise her God!