Adam Critics Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Collier
A
‘Adam loses the mental capacity to resist Eve and anything she says’
2
Q
Whitfield
A
Adam’s ‘dialogue is riddled with misogynistic remarks’
3
Q
Fowler
A
‘Adam becomes corrupt because he refuses to divorce Eve’
4
Q
Burden
A
‘‘free and responsible agents’
5
Q
Orgel
A
Adam had to choose between ‘obedience to God and love of Eve - a choice…beyond easy conception’
6
Q
Moore
A
‘those who sin knowingly are surely more to blame
6
Q
CS Lewis
A
‘Adam fell of uxoriousness’
Eve making Adam eat the fruit is ‘murder’
7
Q
Empson
A
‘the moral of Paradise Lost is “dazzlingly simple”: disobedience of God is the source of all evil and…obedience to God brings happiness’
8
Q
Bell
A
‘There was no fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed’
