Disobedience Allusions, Definition, Citation, Reference, Information - Allusion to Disobedience

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

Disorder (See CONFUSION.)