Adam and Eve

Narrative Theories

• text

• story

• fabula

Text

• how is it that we are reading this story

• vehicle through which we’re receiving the story

• form

  • book

  • ritual

  • performance

  • images

• contains inter-text

Story

• how the events are presented to us

  • could start with the ending

• layering the story

Fabula

• arrange in chronological order

• timeline

• latin word for story

Pom Ad

• ad about pom juice

• uses eve as a focus

  • based on the creation story

• what does this reveal about us

  • beauty standards

  • health and wellness (unlike the message of the creation story)

  • anti-aging

Creation Story

• supposed to be a cautionary tale

  • we’re treating it more like a good thing

Eve vs Mary Magdelin

• iconographical markers

  • Eve: tree, snake, fruit

  • Mary: jar, cross, hair

• composite characters

  • Eve: composite of story

  • Mary: composite of women

• aspirational women

• sexuality

Eve

• becomes a composite of the creation story

  • snake

  • tree

  • apple

• lower in hierarchy of creation

  • ground

  • earth

  • no wonder she’s easily tempted

Adam

• high in the hierarchy of creation

  • sky

  • good

Creation Story

• 2 versions

• open to interpretation