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Cain
By Lord Byron - Stage play
Roles
- Lucifer - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Male
About this piece
Lucifer mentors Cain about his nature and death
Summary
This play is a dramatization of the story of Cain and Abel. Cain, regarding his own mortality as an unfair punishment for Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden, refuses to worship God. As he refuses to participate in a family's prayer to God, he argues that he has nothing to thank God for as he is fated to die. Anxious to learn about death, Cain follows Lucifer into the Hades. Lucifer shows Cain a vision of the Earth's and human history and teaches him to accept his mortal nature and the "gift of reason" that God gave him which will bring him "nearer his spiritual nature".
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Use cases
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