Disobedience
191. Disobedience
- Achan defies God’s ban on taking booty. [O.T.: Joshua 7:1]
- Adam and Eve eat forbidden fruit of Tree of Knowledge. [O.T.: Genesis 3:1–7; Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost ]
- Antigone despite Creon’s order, she buries Polynices. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone ]
- Bartleby copyist in Wall Street office; refuses to do anything but copy documents. [Am. Lit.: “Bartleby the Scrivener”]
- Brunhild disobeys father’s order to let Siegmund die. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Valkyrie, Westerman, 237]
- Saul contravening God, takes spoils from conquered Amalekites. [O.T.: I Samuel 15:17–19]
- Vashti, Queen loses queenship for not submitting to king’s demands. [O.T.: Esther 1:10–22]
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