Punishment: PL

• “harken to the voice of thy wife” = Adam obeying Eve; against God's order
• AO3: 10 Commandments

  • "You shall have no God before me"
• 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

  
• “bent on mans destruction” = Satan's ambition
• “It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven” = Satan's conflict with status
• “Crime” “Overmuch admiring” = Adam's sin
• “instant stroke of death” = Adam's punishment
• "Harvest queen” = Adam demonstrating his uxoriousness whilst making a garland for Eve
• “Adam fell through uxoriousness” – C.S Lewis
• “purposeful hierarchical order” - McColley
• “Full of shame and despair” = Eve falling into despair; sinful
• “Render me more equal” = Eve's ambition for equality
• “Let us seek death” = Eve contemplating s**c*de
• Eve has “Pseudo-heroic ambitions” = Evans
• “Jealousy … motivates” Eve = McEvoy
• AO3: Book of Jobe

  • Despair is sinful
  • Should be able to endure anything due to strong faith with God
• AO3: The Bible and Gender = St Paul

  • "Nor to usurp authority over the man"
  • Patriarchal Ideas in Bible
• “void of innocence, faith of purity” = consequences of the fall
• “soiled and stained” = lack of purity; sibilance
• AO3: Macbeth

  • “not at rest”
  • Links sin to sleep
• “in lust they burn”, “contagious fire” = link between lust and post-lapsarian love
• “Earth trembled” (animism) = effect of the Fall on earth
• ‘To justify the ways of God to man’ – Milton (Book 1)
• Bell = “There was no Fall Adam and Eve were always flawed”
• “their eyes how opened and their minds how darkened” = Adam and Eve unable to sleep after the fall