... , lurking around trying to act upon and influence the characters in the Garden. The tree of life and death, the eternal fountain of purity flowing. However, the parallels to the biblical Garden of Eden can also be determined as quite the opposite of their equivalents in the Bible. Instead of a tree of life; the shrub of death. Instead of the innocent ... , to his ambiguity about Beatrice. He attributes Beatrice with the shallowness he has himself. Adding to his feelings of perception of some innate evil in Beatrice are Baglioni's urgings and allusions. Baglioni refers to a story of a pois...

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... good and evil. Steinbeck sees this as one of the most important abilities humans have, and strongly emphasizes it in his novel. Throughout East of Eden, Steinbeck uses a multitude of biblical allusions in order to convey the struggle of choosing between good and evil. Steinbeck presents the opposing forces of good and evil primarily through use of the characters in the novel ... contribute to the hostility he begins to obtain later in the novel. Even though Adam is older, he fears Charles because he is much stronger and intelligent. The relation to biblical story begins to develop more ...

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• Grade Level: High School