Eve Critics

Question 1

Ricks

Answer 1

‘Eve…is not exactly going to study household good, and…is about to promote in her husband…the first act of evil’

Question 2

Heinman

Answer 2

‘Eve’s position is not just secondary, but powerless, passive, a fact she is painfully aware of’

Question 3

CS Lewis

Answer 3

‘she who thought it beneath her to bow down to Adam or God, now worships a vegetable’

Question 4

Zimmerman

Answer 4

‘Eve has been viewed through a male lens which sees femininity as vain and seductive’

Question 5

Woolf

Answer 5

‘I scarcely feel Milton lived or knew women, except for the peevish personalities about marriage and the woman’s duties’

Question 6

Wollstonecraft

Answer 6

‘our first frail mother’

Question 7

Flannagan

Answer 7

‘there is no evidence in Paradise Lost that Eve’s role is anything other than weak submission’

Question 8

Wheeler

Answer 8

‘Eve fails as a wife in every important aspect’
‘Eve…risks her life and soul…for ambition

Question 9

Espino

Answer 9

‘Eve’s reasoning skills are part of her free will placing no limits on their desires and motivations’