The+Wrath+of+God

= = The Wrath of God

The Lord God punishes Adam for eating fruit from the tree of knowledge.
After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, God set a barrier between human beings and himself. The dialogue below reveals God’s first and final attempt to trust in a human, and now, humans no longer walk beside God like Adam and Eve did before their punishment. This project consists of a recording recently unearthed by archeologists digging in the Holy Land, and this recording demonstrates Adam and Eve’s encounter with God in the Garden of Eden after having eaten the forbidden fruit. This project is also composed of a character analysis inspired by the Genesis story of Adam and Eve, information about pertinent paintings and their creators, a short reflection on this assignment, and the brainstorming involved in the creation of the character analysis texts.

Audio Dialogue media type="file" key="The Wrath of God_ What Really Happened to Adam and Eve.mp3"

 Script The Wrath of God: What Really Happened to Adam and Eve Exposition: God created Adam in the Garden of Eden, but he saw that Adam was lonely. So God cut Adam open, and he ripped out one of his ribs. He used the rib to make Eve, the first woman. Then, God told them that they could eat from any tree in the garden except for the tree of knowledge. Adam: **// Uncomfortably //** Hey there, Eve. Eve: I'm hungry, help me find a good tree to eat from. Adam: Yeah sure, but not the tree of knowledge. God told us not to eat from it. Eve: Why not? Are you going to follow every little thing he tells you to do? Adam: Ummm. Yeah, he's pretty scary. Eve: Come on. Don't worry about it. Nothing will happen to us. Follow me. Adam: Okay but we need to be careful. The tree's right here. Eve: Sit down with me. Eve: We'll eat and talk. Adam: **// Hesitating //** Cool, so what are you here for? Eve: To keep you company. Adam: Are you going to ask me what I'm here for? Adam: Mhm. Okay, so maybe, you know, we could go to... Serpent: **// Interrupts and Whispers //** This fruit will give you power, power, power. Adam: I'm fine. God has a lot of power, and I don't want it to be unleashed on me you know. Eve: **// Brusquely //** Eat the fruit, now. Adam: **// Frightened //** I forgot to mention that he might punish us. I don't want him to rip me open and take another one of my ribs. Eve: Are you scared? Adam: Noooo… Eve: Then eat the God damn fruit. Adam: **// Gasps //** You just... Fine, I'll eat it. Eve: Good now calm down. Adam: **// Deep breath, hesitates, deep breathe, hesitates… //** Eve: Adam? Really? Really? Close your eyes and just do it. Adam: Ok. **// Hesitates //** Oh look, a bird! **// Throws fruit in bushes //** Eve: Where? Adam: Mmmmmm, that was a good apple! We should probably get going now! What a pretty bird! Eve: Well it’s too bad you killed it. Look over there. Adam: Oh, that bird looks like it got hit pretty hard. What could have done that? Maybe it ran into a tree or got hit by… Eve: A big piece of fruit? Adam: **// Guiltily //** Ha-ha, that’s what I was going to say. Eve: **// Enticingly //** Adam, eat the fruit for me, please. Adam: **// Obediently //** Mhm, I’ll eat it for you. **// Bites the apple and Screams //** AAAHHHH!!! I just ate the fruit. What's going to happen when he finds out? Nooooo! We need to make up a story quickly! Help me think of something! Goodness gracious! What if he finds out! Is he going to punish me? Ooooo. Eve: **// Confidently //** ADAM! CALM DOWN! It's all going to be okay. Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Despondently //** NO! No it won't! Eve: Adam, yes it will. Ssshhhh. Adam: No. Eve: Yes. Adam: No. Eve: Yes. Adam: No. Eve: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Assuring Voice //** Yes. Adam: Yes. Your right it will all be okay. Eve: Take these leaves and cover yourself. You’re naked. Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Happily //** Ooohh wow, hey hey! You noticed! Right. Thanks! Adam: Noooooo... Eve: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Panicking //** Quick! Hide in these bushes! Shhhhhh. God: Where are those humans? <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Sniff sniff //** I smell… <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Sniff sniff //** danger! If Adam doesn’t show himself fast, he’s dead! Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Squeals //** I'm going to show myself. Eve: No! Get back here you... Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Frightened //** Hey God! Why are you here? God: To see what the hell you've been up to. What the hell! Why are those leaves covering your body? Adam. Well, it's a long story and I'd rather not. God: Tell me now or I'm going to rip another bone out of your body. Adam: Oh... God: That's it. I'm going to kill you! Tell me now! Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Struggling to breathe //** OKAY, OKAY! We ate from the tree. We didn't want to... God: You what? Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Assured //** So you're not mad? God: No? Adam: Oh thank goodness. I was worried you would... God: You did what? Adam: Ummm, we... God: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Interrupts Ferociously //** Get you out of this garden. And if you don't get out fast, I'm going to destroy you! Bring that stupid woman with you! Adam: But where do we go? We might... God: Am I not clear? Do you want me to repeat myself? Be quiet and do what I tell you! Adam: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Surprisingly //** But... Eve: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Frightened //** It was the snake's fault. He tricked us! God: That's it. Never talk back to me again! From now on, you’re going to get your food from the dirty ground! And that woman is going to suffer when she has a baby! Am I clear now! You need me to repeat myself? Adam: We're... fine. God: <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">**// Viciously //** Now get out of here now before I punish you one more time! And that snake is going to crawl on his belly for the rest of his life. Oooohhhh man!
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 * // Footsteps //**
 * // Bite of Fruit //**
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 * // Uncomfortable silence //**
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 * // God’s Power Funk Beat //**

<span style="background-color: #751575; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 28pt; text-align: center;">Character Analysis Lacking the ability to make crucial decisions, Adam is incapable of resisting to the temptation of the fruit. In the painting // Adam and Eve // by Lucas Cranach The Elder, Adam and Eve stand under a fruit tree surrounded by different kinds of animals, and Eve is handing Adam a fruit. Adam is scratching his head looking bewildered, and he looks at Eve with an indecisive expression. He does not know whether he should eat the fruit or not even though God told him not to. But most importantly, he does not try to see the consequences of his actions. Therefore, he lacks the common sense and judgment to desire between right and wrong. Just like Adam, others in Genesis tend to emulate others and follow them when they do not know what to do. Therefore, they give in to temptation more easily, and they often make pernicious decisions. For example, Lot’s daughters thought that they and their father were the last people one Earth, and therefore, they had sexual intercourse with their father so that they could have children. Incidents like these shows the stupidity of humans in Genesis and in general because they do not take time to think about their actions before performing them. People also give in to their desires and hunger for certain things. In the garden, the snake tells Adam and Eve that eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge would give them just as much power as God and that “’…the tree was to be desired to make one wise’” (Gen. 3.6). The word “desired” emphasizes that Adam had a choice and that he made the wrong decision. Desire means a strong feeling of wanting something or something to happen, and often, people let their desires conquer their common sense. Adam wanted the fruit, the power, and the knowledge, but he did not possess the strength reject the forbidden fruit. Like Adam, others in Genesis make decisions that will help them or satisfy them in the present, but they overlook the drastic consequences awaiting them. For example, when Jacob dressed himself as his brother Esau and stole his father’s blessing, Jacob lived the next two decades in fear because he thought Esau was still angry with him. In Genesis, the people who give in to temptation are generally the ones who hurt their relationship with God. These ignorant people are harmed in the end while those who seek to find the aftermath of their actions end up well.

Even though Eve acts pompously and confidently, she lacks the honesty to tell the truth. In the painting // Adam and Eve //, she leans on one leg with a hand on her hip. She looks up with a haughty glare, confident in her decision to eat the fruit and offer it to Adam. Many other characters in Genesis are proud to have the freedom to act without opposition, and they take advantage of this freedom like Eve did. They break the rules, sometimes do not regret their decisions, and stay pompous. But many times, people understand that they have made a poor decision, and they wiggle their way around their problems by acting dishonestly. When Eve eats the fruit, she speaks to God and says, “’The serpent tricked me and I ate it’” (Gen. 3.13). When she uses the word “tricked”, Eve is implying that she did not eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of her own volition. However, the serpent was just telling Eve the truth. Because of Eve’s dishonesty, human beings no longer walked beside God, and as the years passed, they grew more and more distant from each other. <span style="background-color: #ae3737; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 28pt; text-align: center;">Script Analysis In “The Wrath of God,” Willy Debreu conveys Adam’s indecisiveness and inability to control desires through Adam’s tête-à-tête with Eve. Adam hesitates to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge because he fears the wrath of God, but he also wants to impress Eve and find a path to her heart. Adam yens for Eve, and he eats the forbidden fruit just as she told him to. He is torn between either betraying God and impressing Eve or remaining loyal to God to avoid God’s unjust punishments. Adam even says to Eve, “I’ll eat the fruit for you” (Debreu 3). After eating the fruit, Adam predicts God’s evil punishment, the first that God has ever given, and God ferociously kicks Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. Over the years, God’s patience with human drops tremendously, and he punishes them more harshly each time they do something against his will. For example, God floods the Earth and kills every human except for a few faithful followers and animals just because the general human behavior does not satisfy him.

When Eve attempts to calm Adam down, she tells him that, “It’s all going to be okay” (Debreu 3). Eve even convinces Adam that there will not be any consequences if he eats the fruit from the tree. She puts down all of Adam’s fears because she will not stand being proven wrong. But in the end, disaster awaits Adam and Eve because of Eve’s false predictions. Even when God proves her wrong, she tries to avoid the consequences of her mistakes by saying, “It was the snake’s fault! He tricked us!” (Debreu 5). The snake does not “trick” Adam and Eve into eating the fruit; it merely informs them of the abundant power and wisdom awaiting the fruit’s consumers. Eve lies to God and suggests that she did not have a choice in her eating of the forbidden fruit. Due to Eve’s false confidence and dishonesty, God loses all trust in humans. Humans and God gradually grew farther and farther apart, and they no longer walked beside each other in his kingdom. <span style="background-color: #cc37cd; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center;">Background of the Artwork and the Artist [|Lucas Cranach the Elder], a German Renaissance painter born in 1472, created the painting // Adam and Eve // in 1533. People knew Cranach well for some of his mythological works of art that included naked women, gods, goddesses, or heroes, and some of his religious paintings are still recognized today. His different homes throughout his life were not recorded, but historians know that he traveled to the Netherlands to paint a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian and the emperor’s son Charles. Cranach also grew friendly with Martin Luther, the influential religious leader who began the [|Protestant Reformation], and this companionship inspired Cranach to depict a few scenes from the Bible in some of his paintings. After Cranach’s death, the Lutheran Church even commemorated Lucas as a saint, and it recognizes him with a feast day, August fifth. <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Reflection This project possesses many strengths and weaknesses such as the creativity of the dialogue and the lack of diagrams, pictures, and colors on this website, but overall, it was a success. I included some music and a few sound effects to my recorded dialogue to enhance its quality, and I set up the story so that suspense builds in the listener until they reach the climax. The voices of the characters also reveal some of their traits. But, my wiki page lacks the color and vividness it should have to intrigue the viewer, and I should have included more pictures. The overall appearance of the wiki requires a little bit more work.

At first, I thought that my primary obstacle would be finding ideas for my character analysis. But in the end, the most difficult part of the project was managing my time so that I could finish this project on time. My procrastination skills had never been so obvious to me before; I even walked around the house a few times because I did not want to do this assignment. I tried different working environments, and I eventually learned that I work most effectively when I am in an isolated place without my cell phone, music, or other modern distractions. <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-size: 28pt; text-align: center;">Webspiration Chart Works Cited… <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Ed. Michael D. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1989. Print. <span style="color: #5b09ac; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> "Adam and Eve." N.p., n.d. <http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/8/849/X6NY000Z/lucas-cranach-the-elder-adam-and-eve.jpg>. Rpt. in //Lucas Cranach The Elder//. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Print. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> Rev. of //Lucas Cranach the Elder//. //Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 May 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d._Ä._063.jpg>.

Stephen, Father. "God's Wrath." N.p., n.d. <http://fatherstephen.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ wrath-of-god.jpg>. Rpt. in //Orthodox Christianity, Culture and Religion, Making the Journey of Faith//. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Print.