Comparing Noah's Flood In And Out Of The Bible

Noah’s Flood In and Out of the Bible
Throughout history, mankind has explored the themes of guilt, morality, and suffering. They sought to find the meaning of each, but even today these topics still remain unanswered. What does it mean to suffer? How does our guilt play into the meaning of suffering? Based off of the story of Noah in the Holy Bible, we can see the topics expanded and relate to the modern era in Darren Aronfsky’s Noah.
The story of Noah from the Bible is a classic story that depicts the events of a wise spread flood that wiped out the population of the Earth with exceptions of Noah and his family. In the Bible, Noah, who has talked to God, was instructed to build an ark. God had trusted him to preserve human and animal life,
He too was told a flood was coming, so he built the ark, but he received the prophecy through hallucinations. He also received help in constructing the Ark from fallen angels that God had sent down to Earth during the fall of Adam and Eve. While Noah worked on building the ark, they were also being attacked from locals, seeking control of them and the ark. The angels fought them off while Noah and his family were able to make it on the ship. (Along with the local’s leader and newfound stowaway, Tubal-Cain.) It is when we see Noah on the ship; his character goes through a shift. Noah is undeniably tormented by his decision to take only his family on the ark and speculated that because God sent the flood, he wanted to end humanity. That is why when he discovers his son Shem and his wife, Ila, were pregnant; he was set on killing the baby if it was a girl. She gives birth to twin girls, who Noah decides to kill, but stopped once he realized his love for his grandchildren. We can see that in comparison to the Noah of the Bible, the Noah of the film is vastly different, since the biblical Noah knew that he was to repopulate the Earth. (Genesis
Through the film and text, we can discern what suffering means to the people of that time. Let’s look at the Bible first. We have our main character of the story, Noah, who was given this heavy burden of saving the human race. In this burden, he must have known that it would drown hundreds of people, but he gave nothing but glory for his creator after the floodwaters had dried up by offering a sacrifice. It appears that Noah had much faith in God and no matter the hardship that he went through, it was for a reason, that reason was according to God, and it wasn’t questioned. Noah did not lash out on his family or place blame on others. Presumably, their perception of suffering was centered on being able to push through it for the sake of their