In the picture “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch we can see three different panels. The left panel represents the paradise where we can see Adam and Eve with God and some animals. In the center one we observe a lot of people committing the seven capital sins, this panel represents the real world. Finally the right panel illustrates hell, where human beings are being punished for its sins.
Bosch shows a lot of his doubts and frustrations in each part of the triptych. Some of them are just questions asked to the observer, nearly without noticing.
In the paradise there are just three human figures, so we could ask ourselves that paradise and everlasting peace is reachable or not for everybody.
The human being is conditioned to commit sins during its earthly life and finally pay them in hell. Another detail is that most women in the image have apples on top of their heads, recalling the sin women represent themselves. This idea make us some questions, do sins condition our life? Why does religion make women guilty and responsible of freeing sins on Earth? And why, being Adam with Eve is her the responsible of corrupting the original innocence of human beings?
Finally we find hell. A dark and creepy place where people are punished for the sins they’ve committed. A place in which animals are over people, does this mean that animals are punishing human beings for what they’ve done to them during their earthly life?
We could resume our opinion of this picture in two questions. Why do we need religion to tell us what’s wrong or right? If we’re free and we’re taught to have our own personality and opinion, why do we let some people tell us what to think or do?
Manuel Kant, Paula Zambrano and Fernando Nietzsche
In my opinion the knowledge of this picture sohws us some questions as why does the religion tells us what is wrong and what is right, we have to be free.
ResponderEliminarI think this proyect is very interesting, because it reflexes the things that religion says what is wrong and what is correct for us.
ResponderEliminarI think that Bosch has paint all the people in the middle committing sins because people tends to do forbidden things. This is what makes the life exciting. If we only do the good things we will end up bored of the life. So that's why the hell is full of people. I don't believe in a hell where we will go, but i think that all our acts have a consequence.
ResponderEliminarI don't think the religion has to tell people how to behave and what to do to go to heaven or hell, I think every person has to decide what is wrong and what is right, but just when the rest of the people won't be affected by his decision.
ResponderEliminarI do believe in hell and in heaven, still, I don't think everyone will go to hell because we are bound to root in hell. I think it also depends on the point of view. In that times you were for the church or against it. But I agree with Valls, no one should be affected by the acts of another person. We are all free.
ResponderEliminarThis is one of my favourites pictures,because it shows how the autor, Hieronymus Bosh, sees the society.
ResponderEliminarI personally believe that the hell doesn't exist, in my opinion all the people go to the same place, and this is the heaven.
I like this picture a lot because is an original way to show us how was the society.He wants to tell us that if we do just good things we will have a boring life. But if we do bad things we will have an exiting life but we will be punish.
ResponderEliminarI think that El Bosco wanted to show us that all people cant avoid venial sin. I think that this sins are good for our life because this is the life essence.
ResponderEliminarMy personal view, is that El Bosco wanted to show us how people were influenced by religion, the society of that time and the bad things that people committed in it.I like this picture but i don`t think that people have to be so influenced by the church ,like those times.
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