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Eve wanting to separate

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‘Let us divide our labours’

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

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

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Eve’s jealousy

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

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Telling Adam to eat the fruit to make them equal

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‘equal lot may joyne us, equal joy, as equal love’

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Eve defending herself against Adam postlapsarian

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‘Was I to have never parted from thy side?’

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Adam compared to Eve

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‘Higher intellectual’

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Blasphemous and hubristic, flattering Eve

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‘A Goddess among Gods’
‘Celestial Beautie’
‘Goddess humane’

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Wife should stay with husband for protection

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‘Safest and seemliest by her husband staies’

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Adam not wanting to lose Eve

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‘To loose thee were to loose myself’

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Blaming Eve

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‘in evil hour thou didst give eare to that false worm’

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Shift to postlapsarian world

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‘I now must change those notes to tragic’

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Eve being deceived

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‘O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve’

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Satan not being truly evil, guilt

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‘gulitie serpent’

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Eve eating the fruit

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‘Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint’

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Macrocosmic event

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‘She pluck’d, she ate, Earth felt the wounds’

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Postlapsarian sex being lustful and sinful

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‘In lust they burne’

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Adam falling by uxouriousness

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‘Not deceived, but fondly overcome with femal charm’

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Adam eating the fruit, impact on nature

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‘Nature gave a second groan’

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Adam and Eve realising what they’ve done and feeling guilt

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‘Unkindly fumes with conscious dreams’

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Criticising one another

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‘The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemming’

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Narrator judges Adam and Eve

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‘They deserved to fall’

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Narrator on Adam’s intelligence

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‘His more attentive mind’

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Satan blamed for Eve’s fall, but Eve caused Adam’s

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‘The Serpent, had perverted Eve, her husband shee’

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Adam is infected by evil

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‘His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect’

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Eve was flawless to Adam
'Thy perfect gift'
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Future humans born sinners
'born to certain woe, devoured by death at last'
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Adam suggests Eve has failed her duty
'This woman whom thou mad'st to be my help'
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Adam blames Eve
'Her doing seemed to justify the deed' 'That from her hand I could suspect no ill'
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Adam forgives Eve and acknowledges his own failure
‘Thy frailty and informer sex forgiven’
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Adam relents upon seeing Eve's despair
'But rise, let us no more contend, nor blame'
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Adam on God and justice
'God and his just yoke Laid on our necks'
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Adam tries to see hard work in a positive light
'My labour will sustain me'
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Eve honest about her actions
'The Serpent me beguil'd and I did eate'
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Eve suggests suicide
‘That show no end but death'
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Eve puts more blame on herself
'both have sinned, but thou Against God only, I against God and thee'
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Eve's punishment as well as childbirth
'to thy husband's will Thine shall submit, he over thee shall rule'
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I MUST NOW CHANGE THESE NOTES TO TRAGIC (9.5-6)
• AO1- Milton's narrative voice is dominant- we are aware of his purpose 'to justify the ways of God to man' (1. 25-26) • AO1- Indicates a shift in content and tone- move from prelapsarian to postlapsarian world • AO3- Literary Context of Tragedy (Aristotle). This links to the underlying tragic structure of Paradise Lost. • AO3- Is it a tragedy? Consider the Felix Culpa and the dialectical tension this causes. • AO4- Ideas about tragic heroes and tragic falls; drastic shifts in tone or atmosphere
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FITTEST IMP OF FRAUD, IN WHOM TO ENTER AND HIS DARK SUGGESTIONS HIDE FROM SHARPEST SICHT
•AO1- Satan has to choose a sneaky looking creature to disguise his thoughts. Links to Genesis- the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal' (II. 89-91) •AO4- Theme of appearance vs reality, disguise and deception • AO1- Dichotomy of light and dark • AO3- Satan's names: Lucifer is Latin for 'light-bringer'; Satan is Hebrew for 'the adversary'; Satan was introduced in the Bible as 'the arch enemy'. He's defined by his opposition to heaven.
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God's throne
'Throne Supream'
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Why did Eve eat the forbidden fruit
"in her ears the sound/Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned/With reason,
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Eve believes she has become more intelligent by eating the fruit
"I grow mature,/In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know" (IX:803) - note her use of the term 'Gods' here that suggests she has become blasphemous,
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Garden of Eden info
The Fall of Mankind might be seen, therefore, as a metaphor for the loss of man's interconnectedness with the Earth and Satan's temptation of Man can be reconfigured as explicitly imperialistic". God's intention in Genesis was for Man to live in harmony with nature - God made the first people horticulturalists.
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Satan disrupts order
Satan's false claims as the Serpent that he has gained the gifts of 'reason' and 'speech' (IX:600), shows a disruption to God's ordained order,
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Satan is controlled by his rage
“Myself am hell”. - opening soliloquy “I feel torment within me” - about seeing the pleasures of the garden of Eden - confessions show he is controlled by his rage although he claims to be free from servitude
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Satans followers lack reason
In book II Satan goes down to earth and his followers have philosophical discussions but “found no end in wandering mazes lost” unable to make sense of the world without god as their leader.
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Why is the snake embodies what to Satan
Snakes body circling back to the same envy and desire as a snakes body coils and circles His desire to destroy others torments others Condition of the unrepentant creature
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Satan doesn’t understand gods world
“Constrained into a beast” he is disgusted showing his lack of gods perfect world
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Satan boasts in book X
Laugh at Adam and Eve being able to trick them God turns them all into snakes showing him not being gods equal opponent Satan becomes what he hates
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Subjugation to partners
consequences of the Fall is Eve's utter subjugation to Adam and we see this in the marriage of the Helmers, in which Torvald has usurped authority over Nora to such an extreme that their marriage has become corrupted.
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Adam on gods only strict rule
“requires/From us no other service than to keep/This one, this easy charge”
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Adam values discipline
Adam makes this need to guard their self-discipline very clear in Book IX when he says to Eve: "within himself/The danger lies, yet lies within his power” it also shows his autonomy
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Eves justification for the fruit
Eve’s self-discipline is overcome and, believing the Serpent's lies, she convinces herself that she is ignorant and needs "This intellectual food"
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God as sympathetic
prepared to allow the Son to act as "Man's friend, his Mediator”. After all, Milton wished to "justify the ways of God to men" so depicting God as merciful makes His version of justice, and Man's obedience to it, more acceptable.
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Milton’s purpose for writing PL
"justify the ways of God to men"
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Satan’s ambition for revenge
“What will ambition and revenge to descend to?”
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Eve deceived
“O much decieved, much failing hapless eve” the narrator laments in the expectation of Eve’s fall
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Satan easily deceiving Eve
“Into her heart too easy entrance won”
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Fall of man kind and the impact on earth
The Fall of Mankind might be seen, therefore, as a metaphor for the loss of man's interconnectedness with the Earth and Satan's temptation of Man can be reconfigured as explicitly imperialistic". God's intention in Genesis was for Man to live in harmony with nature - God made the first people horticulturalists.
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Eves quote taking full blame
"On me, me only, as the source of all, / Hath heav'nly justice fix'd." (Book X, lines 932-933) • Meaning: Eve fully accepts blame, saying that she alone is the source of the sin and deserves God's justice. • This shows deep repentance and personal responsibility - she doesn't shift blame, but takes it
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Eve humbly admits her actions
"The serpent me beguiled and I did eat." • Eve admits what happened — she was deceived ("beguiled") and accepts her part in the Fall ("| did eat"). • The tone is humble — she doesn't blame others aggressively, but speaks plainly and honestly.
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Aristotle of the form of a tragedy
Aristotle viewed tragedy as a dramatic form that evokes pity and fear in the audience, leading to catharsis, or emotional cleansing.
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Eves bad desicions to leave Adam leading to the fall
“From his hand her hand softly withdrew”

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