raison d’être

"Greed, also called Avarice or Covetousness, is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual"

The theme:

"Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or
situation"

Linked from : Greed - Sins

Liked from : Glutton - Sins

Personally I think envy means much more than just a wish to have something
someone else has. To me, it means also ACTING AGAINST that person,
"revenging" in a way, trying to take the "object of our desire" away from
them, or backstabbing them in some way etc.
That is why myself I consider envy the "heaviest" sin of all seven.

symbolism:
- snake - as I mentioned, envy, to me, is connected with cunning and doing
something behind one's back

- poison ivy leaf in the frame (and the column)- maybe just a word play, but
I always connected ivy with destruction of some sort... Growing using a
different object as a "support"... Something like that ;]

- color green - i guess it needs no comment

Gluttony or Gula. An excess of anything in possession. Gluttony is most usually defined on excessive food intake. It is one of the Seven Deadly Sins wherein most people nowadays commonly commit. Though it’s not necessarily for food alone, it may also be referred for other things such as too much possession of money or power.

This is reality. People tend to absorb or indulge something which they desire the most to the extent that aside from what they’ve already in possession wherein we may assume is already sufficient, they still want to seek more. What is not good about this is when people are into this execution, others are consecutively affected to the point that they later suffer.

For instance: You, as someone who is in practice of gluttony, already have a pair of snacks inside your bag. It is already quite enough for a whole meal. But then, you met an opportunity wherein you may even grab more snacks. You snatched it away without realizing that there are still people who could have had that food.

We can’t blame that there are people who are like this. But we may let them know how deadly these are in the eyes of our God. We may not know what are the consequences and the proper judgement, but definitely, if people with the same personality keeps on existing in this world, we’d have no peace. We won’t even be able to experience the thrill of a perfect lifestyle.