Eve A05

Question 1

Woolf

Answer 1

Virginia Woolf called him “the first of the masculinists,”

An advocate of the rights or needs of men

Sees women as tool to conceive this

Question 2

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

Answer 2

(1643), Milton wrote that ‘who can be ignorant that woman was created for man, and not man for woman?’ But he justifies divorce because an acrimonious marriage would be considered blasphemy by Milton.

Question 3

Genesis 3:16

Answer 3

women ‘helper’ made from ‘flesh of my flesh’, a material possesion

Yet your urge shall be for your husband, / And he shall rule over

Question 4

Nutt

Answer 4

the betrayal in the garden reminds us of Christ’s own betrayal by Judas in the garden of Gethsemane’

Question 5

Ameile Rorty

Answer 5

‘akrasia of the emotions generallyfollows akrasia of interpretation” (Rorty 340)- eves emotinal degredation by adam leads to poor judgement, the emoitons not voluntary but caused by adam

Question 6

Jordan

Answer 6

Eve is is by no means the hollow temptress whose presence in earlier accounts of the Fall renders them so inconsistent” (p. 88)

Question 7

Mccolley

Answer 7

‘Milton sees part of himself in Eve,

Question 8

Disyannayke

Answer 8

since it is through Eve that Sin and Death come into existence, she could be seen as the mother of sin”

Question 9

Coar

Answer 9

All women are judged for displaying an appetite as they long been “haunted by the hunger of eve’

Question 10

Hortus Conclusus - Translates to ‘A garden enclosed’

Answer 10

Medieval walled garden
Edens narrow citcuit becomes an allusion to it
Symbol of the constrained female body, of purity and innocence

Question 11

The Book of Solomon

Answer 11

‘A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse,’

Symbol of impenetrability, inviolability (purity) and seclusion
Feminist interpreations see it as a reminder of how Eve is defined by biological essentialsim