This is highly speculative of course, but I think there may be at least a few reasons to believe that Jacob and the MIB could end up being the Adam and Eve skeletons in the cave. Here's what I've come up with:
--All the references to dualism, light vs. dark, etc. are very amenable to a yin/yang type of idea. In ancient Chinese philosophy, yin is the dark side and is also associated with femininity. Yang is the light side and is associated with masculinity. For the Chinese, this is not a good vs. evil kind of dichotomy. Both are good when they are in perfect balance with one another. Evil results when the two forces are unbalanced.
--From what we saw in the S5 finale, this would apparently make Jacob the light/male side and the MIB the dark/female side. Now, obviously, the MIB didn't look at all like a woman (in fact, I would say Jacob seems the more effeminate of the two, hehe.) BUT, it's possible that what we saw in that scene was simply one of the forms the MIB had taken, just like he took the form of John Locke. Maybe his (or her) "true form" is female.
--By calling the skeletons "Adam and Eve", the writers have introduced all kinds of possible allusions and themes. While many have focused on the "origins" significance of those names, we may have neglected the all-important "original sin" significance. Maybe their names are an indicator that they are the original cause of all the bad things that have happened on the island. This would line up well with the yin/yang concept. Perhaps Jacob and the WIB once existed in perfect harmony but were at some point corrupted by some other force. And now their war with one another is the cause of all the islands woes. In this case, the true struggle is not for one side to triumph over the other but for their harmony to be restored.
--This would explain the significance of the black and white stones that Jack found on the skeletons.
I admit that there's at least one giant, glaring hole in this theory, and that is the fact that it would be pretty hard to explain how Jacob and the MIB would have died 40 or 50 years ago (this is how long Jack said the skeletons had been decomposing), when they are clearly both alive right up until the point where Ben kills Jacob, which is around 2008. However, I do believe that time travel could account for it (even though I hate the fact that time travel has become the explain-it-all for every theory. I can see why the writers might have been hesitant to do it. It was like opening a Pandora's Box of possible directions for the show.)
What do you think?
--All the references to dualism, light vs. dark, etc. are very amenable to a yin/yang type of idea. In ancient Chinese philosophy, yin is the dark side and is also associated with femininity. Yang is the light side and is associated with masculinity. For the Chinese, this is not a good vs. evil kind of dichotomy. Both are good when they are in perfect balance with one another. Evil results when the two forces are unbalanced.
--From what we saw in the S5 finale, this would apparently make Jacob the light/male side and the MIB the dark/female side. Now, obviously, the MIB didn't look at all like a woman (in fact, I would say Jacob seems the more effeminate of the two, hehe.) BUT, it's possible that what we saw in that scene was simply one of the forms the MIB had taken, just like he took the form of John Locke. Maybe his (or her) "true form" is female.
--By calling the skeletons "Adam and Eve", the writers have introduced all kinds of possible allusions and themes. While many have focused on the "origins" significance of those names, we may have neglected the all-important "original sin" significance. Maybe their names are an indicator that they are the original cause of all the bad things that have happened on the island. This would line up well with the yin/yang concept. Perhaps Jacob and the WIB once existed in perfect harmony but were at some point corrupted by some other force. And now their war with one another is the cause of all the islands woes. In this case, the true struggle is not for one side to triumph over the other but for their harmony to be restored.
--This would explain the significance of the black and white stones that Jack found on the skeletons.
I admit that there's at least one giant, glaring hole in this theory, and that is the fact that it would be pretty hard to explain how Jacob and the MIB would have died 40 or 50 years ago (this is how long Jack said the skeletons had been decomposing), when they are clearly both alive right up until the point where Ben kills Jacob, which is around 2008. However, I do believe that time travel could account for it (even though I hate the fact that time travel has become the explain-it-all for every theory. I can see why the writers might have been hesitant to do it. It was like opening a Pandora's Box of possible directions for the show.)
What do you think?
