Adam Critical Voices

Question 1

Charles Williams on Adam

Answer 1

• ‘Milton depicts Adam’s passion so intensely as to make us almost wish that it could be approved’

Question 2

Northrop Frye on Adam as an anti-hero

Answer 2

• ‘What happens when Adam eats the forbidden fruit then, is not an act, but surrendering of the power to act’

Question 3

David Lowenstein on Adam and Eve as virtuous

Answer 3

• ‘ It is important to notice that Adam and Eve remain unfallen until the fall itself…though fallible and capable of sinning’