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"
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
Pride
Greed
Lust
Envy
Gluttony
Wrath
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