Abstract: The idea of a garden is a frequent image in western English Literature. And most of those images stem from the story of the Garden of Eden. And this paper aims at analyzing the use of this story in three western literary books, Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

1. The Story of The Garden of Eden
1.1 The Creation of Adam and Eve
Genesis tells how God created the first human being, Adam. Because Adam needed a human being to keep him company, then, God used one of Adam’s ribs to create the first woman, Eve. God created for these first two humans a perfect garden, called the Garden of Eden, where everything was beautiful and full of good things for Adam and Eve. However, also in this garden, there was the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve were told by God that they could eat anything in the garden except the fruit of this tree.

1.2 The Fall of Humankind
Eve was tempted by a serpent, which is the symbol of the devil, telling her that if she and Adam ate the fruit, they would know good and evil like God.
“Genesis | 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Genesis | 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

Subsequently, Eve gave in to the serpent’s temptation and persuaded Adam to eat. Then they were aware of shame for the first time, and instead of being innocently naked, tried to make themselves clothes out of fig leaves. And this is the story of the Fall of Humankind, after which Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden and could never get in again. The serpent was regarded as the enemy of humankind.

1.3 Influences of The Story
Because of these things happened in the Garden of Eden, the fruitful gardens have become a symbol of paradise-like existence, which is pure, innocent, and free from sin. And the forbidden fruit, though not identified in Genesi...