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Cain

Name: Cain
Author: George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron

Cain is a dramatic work by Lord Byron published in 1821. In Cain, Byron dramatizes the story of Cain and Abel from Cain's point of view. Cain is an example of the literary genre known as closet drama.

“I live,
But live to die: and, living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome—
And so I live. Would I had never lived!”

George Gordon Byron book Cain

Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.

“That which I am, I am; I did not seek
For life, nor did I make myself.”

George Gordon Byron book Cain

Cain (1821), Act III, sc. i.

“Because
He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?
I judge but by the fruits—and they are bitter—
Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.”

George Gordon Byron book Cain

Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.

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