• Elizabeth Cherian

Ted Hughes’s “Apple Tragedy” challenges the story of creation as written in the Biblical book of Genesis and provides an alternate version of The Fall. Through the complete subversion of the characteristics of the characters, the villain in the Bible is treated with sympathy, thereby, challenges the supremacy of the grand narrative. This paper titled “Blame Not the Serpent: Subversion of Christian belief in Ted Hughes’s “Apple Tragedy”” endeavours to expose the poem as a deviation from the Bible. It studies “Apple Tragedy” as a counter narrative or the version from the outcaste, that is, the serpent. There is a complete inversion of the Christian belief of the story and role of God. The study analyses how God is characterised as the villain and serpent is hailed as the tragic hero.

Grand narrative, Counter narrative, Subversion, Christian belief, Creation, God, serpent

"Blame Not The Serpent: Subversion of Christian Belief in Ted Hughes’s “Apple Tragedy”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.439-440, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807784.pdf

"Blame Not The Serpent: Subversion of Christian Belief in Ted Hughes’s “Apple Tragedy”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp439-440, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807784.pdf