Key Quotations - Eve

Question 1

Eve wanting to separate

Answer 1

‘Let us divide our labours’

Question 2

Emotionally blackmailing Adam

Answer 2

‘Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love can by his fraud be shak’n or seduc’t’

Question 3

In Eden to be tested, let them be tested

Answer 3

‘Fraile is our happiness, if this be so, and Eden were no Eden thus expos’d’

Question 4

Following Satan to the tree

Answer 4

‘Lead then’

Question 5

One rule God has given them

Answer 5

‘Our Reason is our Law’

Question 6

Satan’s influence on Eve’s attitudes towards God

Answer 6

‘His forbidding commends me more’
‘Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?’

Question 7

Eve wanting to be equal to Adam, so debating not telling him she ate the fruit

Answer 7

‘render me more equal… superior: for inferior who is free?’

Question 8

Eve’s jealousy

Answer 8

‘Adam wedded to another Eve, shall live with her enjoying, I extinct’

Question 9

Telling Adam to eat the fruit to make them equal

Answer 9

‘Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot may joyne us, equal joy, as equal love’

Question 10

Eve defending herself against Adam postlapsarian

Answer 10

‘Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib’