Women: PL

Cards (38)

  • "Greedily she engorged without restraint" = Eve eating the forbidden fruit
  • "female charm" = Eve being a temptress
  • "Herculean Samson from the Harlot-lap. Of Philistean Dalilah" = Biblical allusion to highlight women as temptresses
  • "Draw his love and render me more equal" = Eve's ambition for Adam's love; hierarchy
  • "ingrateful Eve" = Eve being unappreciative; blamed for fall of man
  • ‘Milton thought women made only for obedience’  - Johnson
  • AO3 = shift in education for women; more middle class women in education
    • Eve presented as intellectually curious & independent
  • AO3 = The Praise and Dispraise of Women (1569) by Pyrrye
    • ‘Eve did first transgress whose fault brought us in thrall” 
    • Transgress = against law
    • Thrall = captive/under control
    • Blames Eve for fall; source of misogyny
  • Evans (20 cent)= “In classical epic, heroism is a male prerogative. The women…are either temptresses or victims”
  • AO3: Samson & Delilah
    • Bribed to entrap Samson
    • Coaxed into revealing his secret about his hair
    • Took advantage of his confidence to betray him to his enemies
    • But Samson was overly arrogant & prideful (hubris)
    • Blaming women in literature
  • "a thing not undesirable" = Eve's ambition; links to male approval & patriarchy
  • “Undergo with me one guilt, one crime” = Eve's remorse due to her sin; shows her as not evil
  • "Her graceful innocence [...] overawed his malice" = Eve's effect on Satan; purity & women
  • "She plucked, she ate. Earth felt the wound" = effect of the Fall on the Earth/Paradise
  • "One heart, one soul in both [...] to undergo with me one guilt, one crime" = Eve and deception
  • Eve “Is superior to Adam only in her beauty” - Bon Linn
  • “Eve, feeling the lack of gender equality, asserts her individuality by separating from Adam and eating the apple from her own benefit” - Bierman
  •   “It takes two, Adam and Eve, to fall” - David Quint (2014)
  • “The marks of Milton’s sexism are obvious and embarrassing” = Jameson
  • "Milton’s attitude towards Eve is full of paradoxes as is his attitude towards women in general” - Hill
  • "Adam's first words to Eve are typical of him and typical of the extremely high opinion that he has of Eve" - Verbart
  • "Eating the apple represents a rebellion against patriarchal society” - Stocker
  • ‘Desire for personal integrity as a want of love’Revard
  • AO3: Ephesians 5:22
    • "Wives submit to your husbands"
    • Obedience & reinforces social stereotype of submissive women
  • “Superior: for inferior who is free” = said by Eve when debating eating the fruit; links power to freedom
  • "Sole Eve, associate Sole, to me" = Adam expresses his love for Eve; first line; equal partnership
  • “Let us divide our labours” = challenges stereotypes; equality in their relationship
  • “Add what wants in the female sex” = proto-feminist; ambition to improve power for women
  • Milton ‘portrays Eve as vain & wilful & Adam as weak & uxorious’ - McColley
  • ‘Adam was meant to shape his wife’s decisions… relinquishes that authority… he causes…her fall & his own’ - Revard.
  • "Daughter of God and Man!" = Adam reminds Eve of her status
  • Titles given due to Eve by Satan due to her beauty
    • “Sovereign Queen”
    • “Goddess among Gods”
    • “empress”
    • "Queen of this universe"
    • "Goddess Humane"
  • "Harvest Queen" = Adam making a graland for Eve; shows his uxoriousness
  • "Another Eve" = Eve worries about her being replaced when she dies; no value placed on women
  • ‘Eve fell through pride’C.S Lewis
  • AO3: 7 Deadly Sins
    • Roman Catholic Theology
    • Behaviours that inspire further sin
    1. Pride
    2. Greed
    3. Lust
    4. Envy
    5. Gluttony
    6. Wrath
    7. Sloth
  • AO3: Widows
    • Thomas Overbury - "filthy purchase" - moral status of widows ambiguous, marriages were a common option - sign of power/religiously acclaimed
  • AO3: Lady Arabella Sturat =
    • Had a strong claim to English 
    • Secret marriages between Arabella Stuart and William Seymour like Antonio & the Duchess
    • Under house arrest similar to Duchess being imprisoned
    • Both make plans to flee