By The Waters Of Babylon Summary
In the short story, By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benet, (April 25, 1963) the name seems to be given based on that Babylon was once the largest city in the world for 300 years in 539 b.c., Babylon was a very advanced society for the time of its construction, and the name Babylon means Gate of the Gods in the language Akkadian.
Babylon was one of the largest cities in the world for one hundred years, then it lost most of its valor for a few hundred years then later became the biggest city in the world AGAIN for the next three hundred years. The city was known for its beauty, ability to capture other cities in order to build itself, and walls and buildings. It was also known for its agriculture rather than industry, and in the …show more content…
In the entire story, John keeps saying that the Forbidden places are the places relating to the gods. In the Bible story, Psalm, Babylon is described as a city defiant to god, because Babylon forced the people to speak in different languages. In the Bible, “Babel” and babel are the same word in Hebrew, meaning the English word “confused.” It was rumored in the Bible that the Babylonian society was confused and that they didn’t know they were being so obstinate. The author also states that there was fire falling from the sky, but in the Bible, it says that Babylon continued for a few hundred years, even though it collapsed after a few more decades. Regarding the short story, John sees that the gods were killing each other without reprehension. He could be saying that it was forbidden to think differently in his time, and if you didn’t then you would be killed in the least pleasurable of ways.
The short story, By the Waters of Babylon is allusion to the Bible story, Psalm. It relates to the story in many ways, however the most prominent of them the power that Babylonian society contained, the many advances they’d made regarding math, and the meaning of the name itself . They all tell the story of Babylon in a different
Babylon was one of the largest cities in the world for one hundred years, then it lost most of its valor for a few hundred years then later became the biggest city in the world AGAIN for the next three hundred years. The city was known for its beauty, ability to capture other cities in order to build itself, and walls and buildings. It was also known for its agriculture rather than industry, and in the …show more content…
In the entire story, John keeps saying that the Forbidden places are the places relating to the gods. In the Bible story, Psalm, Babylon is described as a city defiant to god, because Babylon forced the people to speak in different languages. In the Bible, “Babel” and babel are the same word in Hebrew, meaning the English word “confused.” It was rumored in the Bible that the Babylonian society was confused and that they didn’t know they were being so obstinate. The author also states that there was fire falling from the sky, but in the Bible, it says that Babylon continued for a few hundred years, even though it collapsed after a few more decades. Regarding the short story, John sees that the gods were killing each other without reprehension. He could be saying that it was forbidden to think differently in his time, and if you didn’t then you would be killed in the least pleasurable of ways.
The short story, By the Waters of Babylon is allusion to the Bible story, Psalm. It relates to the story in many ways, however the most prominent of them the power that Babylonian society contained, the many advances they’d made regarding math, and the meaning of the name itself . They all tell the story of Babylon in a different