Literary Analysis

The Apple of Our Eye We all need to be tamed. Our rough edges are honed by those who understand our temper – folks who are put in our life to round us into complete people. Eve and Enkidu are perfect examples of complementary personas. Both people serve to quench the personalities to which they provide counterpoint, Enkidu in showing Gilgamesh that he is not invincible and Eve in showing Adam that his companion in life will stick with him through thick and thin. It is by the actions and behaviors of these characters that we learn that no one is a complete person from the time of birth; we are all made whole through our interactions with those who share our own stories. Eve and Enkidu represent a similar face – both use flawed education made with an agenda to make decisions that fail them in different ways. Eve and Enkidu serve similar purposes, have similar stories, and suffer from similar misfortunes. In many ways, Eve and Enkidu serve as mirrors of each other – and mirrors of us all. Eve and Enkidu, although portrayed differently by their authors, serve the same ultimate purpose – they serve to give education to their counterpart. Eve fell victim to the wiles of the serpent when she ate of the Tree of Knowledge. What history records is Eve’s disobedience to God’s order to abstain from the fruit; the story however, reads a little differently. “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food, and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it” (The Holy Bible – New International Version, Genesis 3:6). It seems that Eve got a bad rap. Adam appears to have been a willing accomplice to the entire process. He was not tricked into sin. He knowingly disobeyed the Lord of his own accord. Eve made her decision from all of the information available. Adam followed behind her like a little kid on a tether. Eve worked with what she