Adam and or Eve: Difference between revisions

Writers like to use the names Adam and/or Eve symbolically. Maybe they're the first of their kind, or the last; maybe they are the definitive uber-example of whatever it is they are; maybe they represent some kind of genesis or important change; or maybe it's not entirely clear what the symbolism is meant to be. Note that such naming may occasionally be coincidental; "Adam" is still a relativity common English-language name, though "Eve" is less so.

The names mean "From the Ground" (or "man") and "living"/"life," respectively, in Hebrew.

* In ''[[Being There]]'', the first person Chance, the gardener gets to know at length outside of his old homehome—and -- and garden -- isgarden—is a woman named ''Eve'' Rand. In the novella, this symbolism was inobvious; her full name was Elizabeth Eve Rand, and she was usually referred to as "EE". In the film, this was changed, probably because [[Pragmatic Adaptation|"EE" would have sounded weird onscreen]] -- though—though the [[Rule of Symbolism]] likely played a part in ''which'' name she would use.

* In [[Narnia]], men are called "sons of Adam" and women are called "daughters of Eve." Ironically, Adam and Eve never even ''existed'' in Narnia--theNarnia—the nicknames were probably brought over by the first human settlers, who were from our universe.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'''s Commander Adama and the rest of the Adama family.

* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'': At the end of the first episode of Series 4 we find out that George and Nina's baby -- thebaby—the first child born of two werewolves -- iswerewolves—is named Eve.

* A woman named Eve Moonlit kick-starts the events of [[Mothy]]'s Evillious Chronicles series in ''Moonlit Bear'' by stealing two apples ({{spoiler|actually babies}}) from a bear ({{spoiler|their mother}}). Then in ''Tale of Moonlit Abandonment,'' she and her husband, Adam Moonlit, are {{spoiler|murdered}} by her now 14-year-old adoptive children when she attempts to get rid of them by leaving them in the forest, and her {{spoiler|death}} releases the Seven Sins to the world.

* Although not a character, ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'' features a substance which can grant you new physical and mental abilities, and another substance which acts as a sort of fuel for those abilities, named ADAM and EVE respectively.

* In [[Girl Genius]], the promethean constructs Punch and Judy live as regular people under the names Adam and Lilith Clay. In this case, every part of both names are significant. Lilith was traditionally (in [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|Apocrypha]]) the first woman, and made from clay like Adam, instead of from Adam himself. This makes the two constructs equal to each other.

** It's a bit of a misnomer, though, since it is probably not the case that they were the first humans, knew each other or even lived at the same time. Mitochondrial Eve is simply the latest woman who is a common matrilinal<ref> Going solely from mother to daughter, so having sons but no daughters would end the matrilinal line.</ref> ancestor to everyone now living, but when she lived and earlier there were lots of other human women; it's just that their children (or their children's children, or...) were male or died without reproducing. Same for Y-chromosomal Adam on the patrilineal<ref> The line going from father to sun, not running through daughters at all.</ref> and female descendants.