The
expulsion from the Garden of Eden
The
painting above is showing Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden
for defying god word and eating the apple of knowledge. In the story it is
shown that the snake or man-snake-thing is tempting eve to eat the apple. If
you was to know this story, you might say the snake is evil or the angel is
good and that Adam and eve was expulse from the garden because they was to
naïve to not follow god word.
But
to an outsider perspective of the painting it goes the opposite. In the
painting it is seem that the snake man is greeting Adam and eve. You can see
the genuine friendliness he shows them, and the facial expression of
friendliness from them to him, they seem to not be afraid of this half-man
snake, but greet him. The other side of the picture shows an angel pointing a
sword at another human, forcing them to walk away. They seem to be terrified of
this and trying to get away as you can see. This is what you see when you look
at the painting with no knowledge of what it about be for hand.
Nietzsche
philosophy on good and evil is that there is no such thing it only base on
person to person. In the painting as you can see you can infer from it from
many direction from the people who know what the painting about and the one for
who does know what it about. If you were to know the story, you would know that
the snake is bad because, he trick eve to eat the apple, and thus god banish
them out of the garden. But there is no apple in the painting thus we cans
assume that the snake is just greeting them as a friendly person. The angel is
guiding them out. But base on another view we can see that the snake is
greeting them in a friendly way while the angel is forcing them to go away with
a dagger. As you can see in there is many point of view you can look at this
from, the painting show there is no such thing as good and evil it depend on
the person who was looking at it and their knowledge of it.
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