My first instinct with this project was to do the multimodal option. As I sat down with my canvas and materials to begin a collage, I had a strange burst of inspiration, opened my computer, and wrote this paper instead. It felt important. I needed to explain the vitality of the story of Adam and Eve and I wanted the trajectory of this paper to illuminate that for readers. Not only did I want this paper to explain the specifics of how Adam tried to claim Eve, but I also wanted it to clearly walk through this process that has occurred throughout history. We are all familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, we just may not realize that it is part of a bigger narrative. Of course women are taught to yield and be claimed. Because this story is in the Bible, in poem form, and has been told for centuries, it will be emulated over and over again. It unknowingly - or possibly knowingly - created a domino effect. This just goes to show that literature and storytelling have an immense amount of power over societal norms and roles. In order to undo the societal norms and roles that have been established, we need to reevaluate our literature and the message it communicates to the world. That is absolutely not to say that we should completely ditch all of the literature that has ever existed before us! That literature can teach us important lessons about how things came to be the way they are. In order to dismantle any system, we must know how and why it was built.
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