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An outspoken wowan

From the Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon seemed like she was not living in her era. She was way advanced than most of the rest of the women at that time. She touched problems that people specially women wanted to hide such as social problems. She pointed out beautiful things for example Japanese nature but people did not recognize them. As an illustration in the book:”In  summer, the night-moonlit nights, of course, but also the dark of the moon, its beautiful when fireflies are dancing everywhere in a mazy flight”. In these words, we can notice that women are more aware of our surroundings than man. Moreover, She was able to identify the beauty of each four seasons: spring,summer, autumn, and winter. She described many actions of people in the Japanese culture that were either praised or condemned. In the “Things that cant be compared”, she wanted to show us everything mostly on earth has an opposite. As a matter of fact, God creates day and night, and ski and earth so forth. Throughout the stories we can reveal themes such as beauty and perfection. She has opinions about everything in her surroundings as I stated earlier. To conclude,  Shei Shonagon has a little patience for ugly people and ugly things. I think all of that do not fit in her world.

Mans first disobedience

From Adam and Eves first disobedient act, in the garden, raise many answers in the Judaism, Bible, and the Quran. All of them come to the conclusion of because of Satan’s jealousy of mankind, Adam and eve are rejected from the paradise. God typically responds to human behavior with retributive justice, meaning that people get what they deserve. God punishes the evil and blesses the righteous. As an illustration in the Noah and the Flood: “And the Lord saw that the evil of the human creature was great on the earth…………..And the Lord said ” I will wipe out the human race I created from the face of the earth……….I regret that I have made them”. “(page 163).

The disobedience of Adam and Eve make us raise some questions such as: Why God didn’t prevent the disobedience from happening because He is the one that know Everything? and also Did God know by creating Adam and Eve the disobedience will occur? All of that reflect the suffering of mankind on earth. As a result, at the beginning of genesis we have doubles and opposites. God created the world by dividing it into a system of doubles: Sun and the Moon, Light (daytime) and Dark (nighttime), the Land and the  Sea, and Male and Female. When Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, and when Cain kills his brother Abel, good and evil enter the world. From that point on, the world is set with two basic opposing forces which are: the good and the bad, the lesser the greater. From my point of view, Base on these facts we can notice that God want us mankind to remember him .