Cain and Abel
My apologies if this has been posted before;
I'm not too hot on my biblical stories, but I'm fairly sure the relationship between Tender and Adam is an extended parody of the story of Cain and Abel, especially when it comes to Adam's death (Cain smashes a rock over Abel's head!) Is there anything here or am I clutching at straws?
I thought it was a statue of himself.
[QUOTE=forestfood;973040]My apologies if this has been posted before;
I'm not too hot on my biblical stories, but I'm fairly sure the relationship between Tender and Adam is an extended parody of the story of Cain and Abel, especially when it comes to Adam's death (Cain smashes a rock over Abel's head!) Is there anything here or am I clutching at straws?[/QUOTE]
the only thing is Cain, like Adam, was the older of the two. so the comparision is backwards
but otherwise, it's like Nightrious said, all brother fighting brother stories can be linked to that
When cain gets a wife, where does she come from?
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
[QUOTE=LeHaHi;973324]When cain gets a wife, where does she come from?[/QUOTE]
Creationally speaking, it's his sister
Evolutionally speaking, it's one of the hundreds of millions of women around at the time
I'll take the latter.
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
Fantastically speaking, she was an alien from [i]beyond the sun![/i]
I thought it was a club he brained his brother with. Oh well, we'll go with blunt object.
Anyway, I don't think there's any deep connection between the two stories. If Tender is jealous of Adam, it's due to the twisted society they live in. Cain's jealousy was a product of his own damned soul. Almost any story about two brothers can in some way or another relate to Cain and Abel, like how any big guy vs little guy story comes back to David and Goliath.