Eve Quotes

Question 1

Eve’s reasoning

View for independence against her role to support husband, but based on fact that men and women have different jobs - oxymoronic

Answer 1

‘Direct the clasping ivy where to climb, while I in yonder spring of roses intermix’d’

Question 2

Eve’s flattery

Eve’s language mirrors Satan’s later - flattery - this develops after she eats fruit

Answer 2

‘Offspring of heav’n and Earth, and all earth’s lords’

Question 3

Eve’s reasoning

Tone presents duplicity of women when not guided by man - politic - like how Flamineo describes women in WD
Reinforced by assonance

Answer 3

‘With accent sweet renew’d’

Question 4

Eve’s reasoning

Eve’s downfall is being too innocent, not too seductive - polarisation - alliteration presents her words as ‘right’

Answer 4

‘A foe so proud will first the weaker seek’

Question 5

Eve letting go of Adam’s hand

Mournful assonance and Latinate syntax displays inversion of hierarchy bc she’s in control

Answer 5

‘Thus saying, from her husband’s hand her hand soft she withdrew’

Question 6

Eve’s walk

Walk expresses her empowerment at winning argument at expense of patriarchal power = fuels Eve’s vanity

Answer 6

‘But Delia’s self in gate surpass’d’

Question 7

When Satan sees eve

Flowers mask Eve’s true scent of sinfulness which is dormant wout stimuli - just like corruption of Catholic Church hidden by smells and bells
fragrance links to Isabella kissing painting of Bracciano in WD - fragrance is poison
Wedding veil - ref to polygamy on Eve’s part?

Answer 7

‘Veiled in a cloud of fragrance’

Question 8

When Satan sees Eve

Roses symbolic of love and if drooping = love for Adam is failing
Also polygamy - being deflowered

Answer 8

‘Hung drooping, unsustained’

Question 9

Eve’s walk

Aligns eve with superstition = frowned upon by Protestants in relation to witchcraft beliefs

Answer 9

‘Nymph-like step’

Question 10

Satan’s words’ impact on Eve

Mirrors later line; eve is passive whilst Satan actively penetrates heart = interfering with marital love (non-sexual polygamy)

Answer 10

‘Into the heart of Eve his words made way’

‘Into her heart too easy entrance won’

Question 11

Satan leading eve

Polarisation of woman - a single misstep labels them as inherently deviant - by placing responsibility of mankind on her shoulders
Link to V+I + monticelso saying a whore is almost everything

Answer 11

‘Into fraud led eve, our credulous mother’

Question 12

Eve’s language to Satan

Aligned with Satan bc of parallels in language to get what they want also distances her from God
Links to WD - new v old order

Answer 12

‘Ye shall not die’

Question 13

Eve witnessing the fruit

Synaesthesia - sensory overload parallels polarised nature of women - all or nothing (a whore is everything ~ monticelso 1.5k85)

Answer 13

‘On the fruit she gaz’d’
‘The sound yet rung of his persuasive words’
Inclinable now grown to touch or taste’

Question 14

Eve eating the fruit

Sexual imagery of prostitutes (all or nothing ~ monti 1.5k85)

Answer 14

‘Solicited her longing eye’

‘Impreg’n’

Question 15

Description of when Eve eats fruit

Hottest time of day foreshadows heat of hell A+E will endure

Answer 15

‘Hour of noon’

‘Evil hour’

Question 16

Description of Eve eating fruit

Cocktail of fricative, plosives and dental sounds presents extent of Earth’s wound

Answer 16

‘Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck’d, she ate’

Question 17

Description of eve eating the fruit

Elongated ‘G’ and it’s alliteration sounds indulgent and this sinful

Answer 17

‘Greedily she engorg’d without restraint’

Question 18

Eve reasoning with self after she eats the fruit

Female will to better themselves reflect society’s fears but female selfishness presents females as unable to hold power

Answer 18

‘Render me more equal… For inferior, who is free?’

Question 19

Eve reasoning with self after she eats the fruit

Monosyllabic and echoes marriage vows taken under gods witness - God knows!!

Answer 19

‘Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe’

Question 20

Eve speaking to Adam

Usurps natural hierarchy by speaking first

Answer 20

‘Adam…’

Question 21

Eve in book 4 sees herself in the pool and falls in love with her reflection - innocent as she doesn’t know it’s her own reflection
Eve’s affection for a responsive image/sympathetic gaze was denied to her - this restraint has produced true narcissism - feeling akin to when an infant sees its mother: Eve is mothering herself
Satan exploits her true narcissism and her natural longing for a mother figure through simile of forbidden fruit as mother’s milk and phonetic similarity of ev’n to Eve
Raphael warns Adam against female self-sufficiency and the law of Eden denies Eve maternal self sufficiency

Answer 21

‘fairest resemblance of thy maker fair’

‘goat dropping with milk at ev’n unsuck’d of lamb or kid, that tend their play’

Question 22

Divine Social hierarchy of God is what causes transgression against it from those lower down in the hierarchy - just like Milton when he fought with Parliament against the tyranny of CI in the civil wars

Answer 22

‘render me more equal, and perhaps… sometime superior; for inferior who is free?’

Question 23

Adam and Eve were never truly ‘free’ in Eden - a set of cultural constraints always burdens them
Minds are darkened = self consciousness is a darkening thing but imagery of a veil of innocence that left them in the shadows = rhetorical paradoxical construction of Eden - presents the fall as an enlightenment and the idea of a ‘perfect, free Eden’ was untrue and veiled from unfair nature of it - mirrors ‘veiled in a cloud of fragrance’ - Eden was never perfect
Milton exposes with the fall of the veil his true belief in Eve’s critique of arbitrary hierarchy - Stuart monarchy

Answer 23

‘their minds how dark’n’d; innocence, that as a veil had shadow’d them from knowing ill, was gone’

Question 24

Eve responding to Adam’s words that he will fall with her

Words mirror the hymn of the angels (Book 3) praising the true heroic act of love, the Son of God’s offer to sacrifice his life for mankind - Adam’s actions are not heroic but Eve makes them seem so by praising his sin as virtue - link to ‘made intricate seem straight’ and Monticelso w black book - appearance v. reality
Legal Jargon - trial of love works here but doesn’t in Vittoria’s trial where Bracciano abandons her - lust v. love

Answer 24

‘O glorious trial of exceeding love, illustrious evidence, example high!’

Question 25

Eve responding to Adam’s words that he will fall with her

More legal jargon - Eve utilises the legitimacy of the law that was used by God in prohibiting the fruit - hubris
(legitimised by assonance and rhetoric patterning
Mirrors Satan being ‘restrain’d into beast’, Adam is restrained into lesser than his divine and moral worth to Eve’s level

Answer 25

‘one heart, one soul in both; whereof good proof this day affords, declaring thee resolv’d’
‘one guilt, one crime’

Question 26

Eve responding to Aam’s words that he will fall with her

Presents appearance v. reality of women as Eve’s reasons are selfish - politic like Vittoria in telling the yew tree dream to Bracciano
Irony - Eve doesn’t pass the test of love but Adam does - Eve’s polarisation

Answer 26

‘were it I thought death menac’d would ensue this my attempt, I would sustain alone’

Question 27

Eve giving the final push of persuasion for Adam to eat the fruit

Through synaesthesia Eve presents the pull of the restoration felt by England in the late 1650s - that the temptation is sinful bc synaesthesia presents the restoration as a step towards Catholicism

Answer 27

‘taste so divine, that what of sweet before hath touched my sense’

Question 28

Eve giving the final push of persuasion for Adam to eat the fruit

Prelude to female politic nature through sexuality - presents women as eternally sinful even without sexuality
Fricative sounds soft yet underlying harshness presents female polarisation between appearance and reality

Answer 28

‘fondly overcome with female charm’