Adam Quotes Flashcards
Adam talking with eve
Happiness and love stem from love of God (thus reason) first and foremost but Adam loves eve too much
‘Smiles from reason flow’
Adam talking with eve
Reaffirms hierarchy in reasoning w archaic syntax
‘Leave not the faithful side that gave thee being’
Adam talking with eve
Abruptness of dentals comfort of sibilance suggests sinfulness of women without men to guide them
Caesura indicates male desire to keep women from sin
‘The wife, where danger and dishonest lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays’
Adam talking with eve
Mirrors Eve’s language which shows how eve is dominant - his love is his flaw
‘Daughter of God and man; immortal Eve’
‘Offspring of heav’n and Earth, and all earth’s lords’
Description of Adam
Reversal of marital roles as Adam gives in to eve seen in phonetic similarity between ‘matrimonial’ and ‘matriarchal’
‘Domestic Adam in his care and matrimonial love’
Adam on reason
Presents free will as stereotypically masculine and men have free will bc they have reason
‘God left free the will, for what obeys reason is free… Erect’
‘She dictate false, and misinform the will’
Adam’s language
Godliness of man as opposed to women as Adam’s language mirrors the Lord’s Prayer
‘Seek not temptation’
Adam witnessing Eve’s walk
Adam here is deviant bc he desires Eve - Milton presents need for women to remain chaste
Link to WD and how flamingo talks of women, Vittoria having a coy facade: ‘her coyness, that’s but the superficies of lust most women have’
‘With ardent look his eye persu’d delighted, but desiring more her stay’
When reasoning with eve
Adam is milton’s mouthpiece here but he’s also rep by Satan - reflects indecisive nature of Cromwell during protectorate which led to failure (mirrored by Adam’s)
‘Nothing lovelier in woman can be found than to study household good, and good works in her husband to promote’
When Adam learns Eve has eaten the fruit
Dentals of ‘down dropp’d’ and latinate syntax presents the loss of Adam’s pure love for Eve and future failure of that love, for it has come before love to God
‘faded roses shed’ (deflowered) contrasts ‘cheek distemper flushing glow’d’ - pure love fades and passion and sin (physical disorder) filled love replaces it
‘from his slack hand the garland wreath’d for Eve down dropp’d, and all the faded roses shed’
When Adam learns Eve has eaten the fruit
Harshness of dental alliteration paired with words attempts to remove Eve from Adam so he may continue to love God most - ‘defac’d, deflowr’d’ - presents Eve as ambiguous - lost her face and purity
‘defac’d, deflowr’d, and now to death devote’
When Adam learns Eve has eaten the fruit
Echoes of the marriage ceremony - as if Adam is answering Eve’s own vows stated previously - subversive - Adam surrenders power to Eve bc she does vows first - messing up God’s order
‘The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe’
Adam and Eve after having sex
Foreshadows the continued sinfulness of mankind through their lineage
‘conscious’ suggests the perpetual guilt of mankind
‘sleep bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams’
Adam when about to have sex with Eve
Animalistic behaviour presents the fall from God’s divine hierarchy
‘cast’ has connotations with being trapped - Eve is trapped within Adam’s law now instead of God’s - futile nature of civil wars - Cromwell became just as bad as the monarchy?
‘carnal desire inflaming, he on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes’
Adam when he discovers Eve’s transgression
Juxtaposition between white and red presents Eve’s inherent sinfulness in comparison to Adam’s inherent purity - sinfulness of women and virtuousness of man
Also how women use words as their weapons whereas men have brute strength
‘in her cheek distemper flushing glow’d’
‘speechless he stood and pale’
