Paradise Lost- Book 9 character flaws and failings

Question 1

Eve main flaw

Answer 1

want for power over Adam, naivety

Question 2

Satan main flaw

Answer 2

hubris

Question 3

adam main flaw

Answer 3

love for eve-but him eating the apple makes him fall out of ‘true love’ with her

Question 4

satan quote which shows his jealousy of man and the theme this shows

Answer 4

” Provokes my envy, this new favourite

Of Heav’n” (hierarchy and order)

Question 5

satan quote which shows what he will do to eve and adam

Answer 5

“Spite then with spite is best repaid”

Question 6

most famous line in the poem about eve eating the apple

Answer 6

“…she plucked, she ate” (monosyllabic- shows the simplicity of the action)

Question 7

adam quote which shows the love adam has for eve

Answer 7

“to lose thee were to lose myself”

Question 8

Satan quote where he is convincing eve to eat the fruit- about ambition- links well to DoM

Answer 8

“And life more perfect have attained than Fate

Meant me, by vent’ring higher than my lot.”

Question 9

adam quote about eve’s eating the fruit allowing them to see true evil in the world- what does the quotation show

Answer 9

“Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got”– by eve’s ambition to have higher status they are both now able to fully see the evil in the world- not naïve anymore

Question 10

adam quote about the fall and the corruption of eve

Answer 10

“true in our fall,/False in promised uprising”