Frye's thoughts and beliefs from Words With Power (more precisely, from his second variation of a symbol, The Garden) resonate in my mind. The most intriguing idea which I (and my group) derived from Frye is the transcendence from a harmonious, ignorant, paradisaic state to a chaotic, enlightened state of downfall. Literally, The Fall is another word for the transgression of man.
We've been exiled from the world of Eden because of the nature of curiosity. The serpent's trickstery, Eve's gullibility, and Adam's infatuation with women and fast food are some of the reasons for The Fall. In God's initial eyes, his creations needn't experience suffering in a perfect world, a divine oasis, but it takes one wrongdoing or misunderstanding to alter the way of the world.
Many things changed: Paradise has become a lost oasis. The oasis contained trees which needn't be watered; this is to say that we've inherited the curse of agriculture after The Fall. The oasis beholds a world of divine secrets, namely that "perfect world." We're a suffering world; we're farmers now, not spoiled children.
Above is a picture from Darren Aronofsky's film, The Fountain. I highly recommend it to Northrop Frye.
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