Essay On Siblings In East Of Eden

Growing up I know I have had my fair share of arguments with my brothers, whether it be about who gets to watch their show or who gets to be player 1, regardless of the situation I knew that we would grow out of our rivalries and mature. Similarly in both books they were able to get pass their rivalries and find peace in the end although it took some time. Then in both books we see siblings feuding with each other, what they’re arguing over may be different, but with each new argument that arises we see each sibling crawling for the edge over the other. Although the context is different in each piece of literature we can see that the sibling’s argument is sparked by a parent’s preference for one child over the other and the actual reason for their disagreement is miniscule in actual meaning.
Bianca over Kate, Adam over Charles, and later on Aron over Cal. With each pair of siblings we see different arguments but the root problem of all of their problems is the desire to win over their parents affection. We see this first in East of Eden when Charles beats Adam to a pulp and later comes back to kill him. In Taming of the Shrew we see Kate tie up Bianca to wail on her to let her anger out. In both situations the aggressor is starting the fight because of their lust for their parent’s greater love. In East of Eden it’s because Adam’s gift to Cyrus is liked more than Charles gift which he spent a sizeable amount of money on. In Taming of the Shrew it’s because Baptista just wants Kate to be married off to whoever he doesn’t even care and he uses Bianca as leverage to get that done sooner. In both situations the parent’s prefer one over the other which causes extreme anger in the other. All anyone wants in this situation is to be loved as much as their counterpart and they are confused as why they’re not and they take their anger out on the wrong