Thank you for sharing your thoughts-it’s a fascinating perspective. But I wonder: isn’t the desire for power inherently tied to freedom? After all, power can be understood as the ability to shape one’s reality, to step beyond imposed limits, and to act according to one’s will. Disobedience, too, suggests a refusal to conform—a yearning to explore possibilities beyond what’s given. If Eve sought power, wasn’t that a way of seeking freedom from a world where she could only obey?
Perhaps the story reflects something deeper: the human condition, where freedom, power, and curiosity are intertwined—and none comes without the other.
It’s a beautiful poem but the metaphor is wrong.
You’re talking about politicized power. In family units, government systems, the law, and any other arena where power and authority are interwoven there is a relationship to freedom. You’re right curiosity, freedom, power, and disobedience are intertwined because someone has to be oppressed.
That’s not the case with Adam and Eve in the garden. Adam was initially alone. Eve was created so he would have a companion to help with naming the animals. The serpent promised her she could be like GOD and not die. She was deceived then took the lie to her husband.
The story isn’t about political power it’s about the false sense of power that comes from pride and deception. Before encountering the serpent Eve was provided all she needed and wanted. She didn’t know she was naked, didn’t feel oppressed, or confined. She was free.
It was the lie of the serpent that brought about the understanding that locked us all out of Eden. Had Eve not been deceived and Adam not been trusting things may have turned out differently but they were both punished so the poems metaphor doesn’t really work.
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