Evil In 'Noah And The Ark'

“Noah and the Ark” is a story of one good man in a world full of evil. “The Fall of Man”, however, is about how evil started. Although both stories are explanations of different aspects of good and evil, they are both a part of the same story; God is angry at the evil in the world and destroys it but keeps the goodness. However “Noah” contains more positive symbols and themes than “The Fall.” God is a central theme in both of them.

In both “Noah” and “The Fall” there use many prominent symbols, like God. In “Noah” God destroyed the evil in the world and keeps the goodness by sending a flood to kill everything that wasn’t good. “Every living thing that moved on the earth perished - Birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.” This is very similar to what happened in the “Fall” when God banished Adam and Eve, the evil, from the garden of Eden. “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken”. Another prominent symbol is the ark from “Noah” and the garden from the “Fall”. These symbols represent home, safety, and goodness. You can tell that these are

For instance, there is a strong theme of regret in “Noah”. This is the apparent when God reveals his covenant with humanity. “Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.” This differs greatly from the “Fall” where God has no remorse for his creation and has no desire to help them at all. In addition to that there is another difference between the two stories. In the “Fall” there is the theme of manipulation, where in “Noah” there is on such presences of this. “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” Looking back on the stories, I interpret them as trying to prove the exact same point but only using different themes in order to do