Eve's Choice

 A great businessman by the name of Roy Disney once said "It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." Although this is true,  what happens when someone doesn't know what their values are? Or even what the word "value" means? Here lies the dilemma of Eve, and whether her "decision" of eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden deserves to be called a ¨bad choice¨ or not. 


There are certainly a few reasons as to why Eve´s decision can be seen as incorrect.  Towards the beginning of the passage, Eve has a conversation with a snake regarding the her ability to eat from the trees in the paradise. At one point, she clarifies to the snake that God told them to " 'not eat of it or so much as touch it, lest you die. ' "However, the snake is able to peruse Eve into eating from the forbidden tree. Because God specifically said to Adam and Eve to not eat from the forbidden fruit and they still did, the reader can interpret their decisions as wrong and them as disobedient. 


Nonetheless, there is still the argument that her "choice" of eating the forbidden fruit is not wrong. To start off, the word "choice" has some weakness in this scenario. In order to have a choice, someone must be able to wager the possibilities in the outcomes when choosing a path . In this case, Eve does not have any judgement on either outcome from  eating the forbidden fruit as she has no knowledge of what "death" means. This lack of knowledge and ability to judge right from wrong can be proven at the beginning of the passage, where she does not realize that being naked is something she should be concerned about. However, after eating the fruit, Adam and Eve are ashamed of being naked and "sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths." This drastic change is mindset shows that the fruit of wisdom has given them the ability to judge good from bad, a capacity that was not available before eating the fruit. Her lack of judgement and knowledge raises the argument that her decision was not bad or wrong because she didn't know what the meant.


In my opinion,Eve should not be judge for her action and it should not be qualified as bad or wrong. This is because her lack of knowledge and ability to judge right or wrong prevented her from making a thoughtful choice when persuaded by the snake.