Eve-critics

Question 1

What does John Carey suggest Eve’s fall was because?

Answer 1

1)”patent self-deception”- lies to herself in order to eat the fruit (knows its forbidden)

2)”eve is undermined by flattery and impelled by ambition,curiosity and hunger”

Question 2

What does C.S Lewis say about Eve giving Adam the apple?

Answer 2

1) says Eve commits “murder” by giving Adam the apple

Question 3

What does Diane McColley state about Eve’s fall?

Answer 3

1) [Milton] broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve” and “uniquely gave her responsible motives for her independent movements”

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Question 4

What did Samuel Johnson believe Milton saw as the role for woman (and therefore Eve)

Answer 4

1) “Milton thought women made only for obedience”

Question 5

What does Turner believe Milton was opposed to?

Answer 5

-“Milton both uses contemporary assumptions about women and is in conflict with them”

Question 6

What did bell believe about Adam and Eve?

Answer 6

-“There was no fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed”

Question 7

What does Kane Edwards say about Eve?

Answer 7

-Has the stain of a “satanic mind” - wants to seek evil

Question 8

What does Gilbert say about Eve? (2)

Answer 8

1) “Eve is Adam’s intellectual inferior”

2)”implicitly refuses to accept the hierarchy of Eden” and “rebellion against secondariness”

Question 9

What does Zimmerman say about Eve?

Answer 9

“vain and seductive, aswell as infantile and dependent”