Status: PL

• “purposeful hierarchical order” - McColley
• AO3: The Bible and Gender = St Paul

  • "Nor to usurp authority over the man"
  • Patriarchal Ideas in Bible
• “bent on mans destruction” = Satan's ambition for destruction
• “my envy” = Satan's jealousy
• “Heighth of deity aspired!” = Satan's aspiration to ascend
• “[S] is obsessed with his own importance” – Carey
• “enemy of mankind” = what Satan names himself; in direct opposition to Adam & Eve
• AO3: 'The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates' (1649)

  • John Milton
  • Defends right of people to execute a guilty sovereign whether tyrannical or not
  • Can be compared to Satan trying to kill God
• ‘Milton was of the Devil’s party’ - Blake
• Satan's obsession is a “Symptom of megalomania” – Carey
• Megalomania = obsession with the exercise of power
• “descend” “low” “beast” = lowly language to describe Satan
• “new favourite of heaven this man of clay” = high status given to humans
• “Heaven is high” = asserts God and heaven with high statuses
• “Sovereign Queen”; “Goddess among Gods”; “empress” = increases Eve's status due to her being beautiful
• AO3: Great Chain of Being : Didacus Valades (1579)

  1. God
  2. Angels
  3. Demons
  4. Humans
  5. Animals
  6. Plants
  7. Non-living
  8. Hell

  
• “Draw his love and render me more equal” = Eve's Ambition/desire for equality
• “Superior: for inferior who is free” = Eve links ideas of status to freedom
• AO3: Ephesians 5:22

  • "Wives submit to your husbands"
  • Places women below men in status
• “It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven” = Satan's conflict with status