Critics

• ’how innocent, how beautiful and yet unprotected she is’ (Eve) - revard
• ‘Eve’s weaker reason’ - Revard
• Milton thought women made only for obedience

  Samuel Johnson
• She who thought it beneath her to worship either Adam or God came to worship a vegetable

  C S Lewis
• ‘Adam fell by uxoriousness’ (C.S. Lewis)
• ‘Milton places the supremacy of Eve over God at the central point of the fall itself’ (Northrop Frye in ‘Children of God’)
• ’passion is the very essence of all sin’- Revard
• ’the cause of Eve’s fall… lies with the husband who sanctioned her exposure’ - Revard
• ‘Eve’s obedience to Adam/God depends on her liberty.’ - McColley
• ‘Fall is inevitable manifestation of man’s inherent weakness’ - Kelsey
• Error is a lapse of mind and like nonsense can not be understood -David Reid
• ‘Man fell by choice’ - McColley
• Milton was a true poet and of the devils party without knowing it - William Blake
• 'Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost.' - percy b shelly
• Milton 'demonstrates her [Eve's] quiet heroism"' - beer
• 'Milton is the worst sort of poison' - pound
• 'Milton thought women made only for obedience' - johnson
• 'eve falls through pride'
• Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits 'murder' - c.s lewis
• "Milton means for us to be seduced by Satan just as our forefathers were" - fish
• "There was no Fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed" - bell