Key Quotations - Adam Flashcards
Adam suggests Eve has failed her duty
‘This woman whom thou mad’st to be my help’
Adam blames Eve
‘Her doing seemed to justify the deed’
‘That from her hand I could suspect no ill’
Adam sad and complaint after Sin and Death enter Earth
‘O miserable of happie!’
Adam sort of admits it’s his fault
‘I deserved it’
Adam asked why he was created, he didn’t ask to be made
‘Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me Man?’
Adam on Eden
‘this delicious garden’
Adam questions his fate and God’s power
‘Can he make deathless death?’ , ‘But shall I die a living death? Horrid, if true!’
Adam calls Eve this in response to her ‘soft words’
‘thou serpent’
Adam blames Eve for his happiness
‘But for thee I had persisted happy’
Adam suggests Eve is naturally sinful
‘This fair defect of nature’
Adam forgives Eve and acknowledges his own failure
‘Thy frailty and informer sex forgiven,
To me committed and by me exposed’
Adam relents upon seeing Eve’s despair
‘But rise, let us no more contend, nor blame’
Adam refuses to accept Eve’s suggestion of suicide as she thinks it’ll mean they escape God’s punishment
‘Doubt not but God’
Adam on God and justice
‘God and his just yoke Laid on our necks’
Adam tries to see hard work in a positive light
‘My labour will sustain me’
