Amelia Lanyer: Late Blog

   The reading of Amelia Lanyer, for once has provided me as the reader with a different point of view on Adam and Eve, the story of Adam and Eve has been re-mythologized so many times that is almost impossible to know what story one is truly supposed to follow. After having finally read the story as told exactly by the Genesis did I finally begin to realize and recognize the changes which were present throughout these various re-mythologies.
   The greatest difference which was very obvious throughout the story as told by Amelia Lanyer is that for once Eve is being defended and not only being viewed as the one to blame for all of the circumstances which have arisen by the decision of eating the forbidden fruit.
   This difference may seem insignificant to some, but to me this difference in how the story is told provides the audience/reader with a very different view point as to women being the cause of problems which arise, and this for some leads to thinking in a much more sexist manner. Such as Adam had no blame, it was no one other then Eve's fault. Therefore making it seem that no one, but the women is to blame in this situation as well as many others.
   This story leads one to do what one is told as well as naturally taught to not do, which is question authoritative discourses. Among these are those of our religious, political, societal, educational, parental, and law authorities which we have grown to believe should not be questioned. Questioning these authoritative discourses by deciding whether Eve is to blame or not, may lead to a change of one's own interanimation of discourses.
   All this brings me to the conclusion that whether Amelia Lanyer, just as many others simply took the story of Adam and Eve and re-mytholigized it, it is clear that she has successfully planted the thought in my mind that it is possible that my previous views on how to portray Eve can in fact now be questioned, and I have now come to the conclusion that there is a possibility that previous writers could have simply been sexist and Eve could be more innocent then I have thought her to be all along.
   Another term greatly discussed within class was that of Dialogism, after learning the meaning of this word, I discovered that there is much more behind this term then I ever thought to be present. This is for the fact that, it is important to realize that during the time period in which this re-mythology of the story of Adam and Eve was written was in fact a much more male dominated time period and for this reason alone it is in fact possible that people may have not questioned there previous beliefs as to the story of Adam and Eve for the fact, that it was highly doubtful that a man could be at fault, or much less that a women wasn't at fault, for the fact that this time period was such a sexist society in which women were barely beginning to be viewed a bit more as individuals who were to be worthy, and not just as the lesser version of the man. However, when a story such as this one is read today in a different time period where women are just as powerful as men, this is when it may begin to affect the internally persuasive dialogue of an individual more then ever.