Landscapes Flashcards
ONE - theme
Was Eden ever perfect pre-lapsarian – Adam and Eve’s labours
ONE - pre-lapsarian - AGAINST
1) Adam and Eve’s Labours being monotonous
In their continuous garden is this really Heaven?
2) God gave both Adam and Eve “reason” enables Eve to consider purpose and that she feels that she has a grander purpose in life
-Eden as an eternal torture
3) yet they “lop” “prune” “prop” “prune”
4) Monotony exemplified by the simplistic language
5) 17th cent gender roles
ONE - pre-lapsarian - FOR
1) Gilbert “Eve refuses to accept hierarchy “
2) Should not question God as God is the creator – epistemic distance
3) “Graceful innocence” / Adam “guards her”
Infantile like a child – not free – was Eve right to be deceitful????
4) “clasping ivy” “spring of rose” - relentlessness of tasks
5) Eve’s language mirrors the Doctrines of Freedom in Milton’s Aeropagitica and arguments of reason do make sense if pre-lapsarian to “divide labours”
TWO - Eve was always evil
1) Gilbert Eve has an inner morass of rot and evil
2) Eve was aware of Satan’s malevolent intentions
3) Although the fruit brings death “How dies the serpent?”
Rhetoric – aware that Serpent is not completely honest
-Pre-fallen ?
4) Was eve ever oblivious to Satan’s intentions
Were women created evil? Flaw of the creator?
TWO - Was Eden ever safe in Satan’s penetration of the garden
1) How was it possible that Satan was able to enter the garden to begin with. If God is perfect in control? Garden guarded
2) Second time Satan penetrated thegarden
3) “Bent on man’s destruction” both literally in form of a “serpent” and intention mimics how Eve was formed from a “bent rib” – foreshadows fall
Flaw of the creator
4) “Rising mist” – hides Satan’s form and travels up the waterfall, which demonstrates his power and unnatural nature
Three: theme
Satan’s grand diabolical manipulation
Three - Satan’s manipulation was Eden perfect? AGAINST
1) Eve constantly referred to as beautiful as if she has no other purpose
2) “Fairest unsupported flower” – How she has no one to really guide her / identify with
3) Satan appears “veiled in a cloud of fragrance” – “fragrance” how Eve sees parts of herself reflected in Satan
4) Satan’s great operatic aria in praise of a certain “Goodly tree” – missuse of the superlative – if tree was not perfect then surely Eden was not perfect either
5) Burden “Satanic epic”
Three - Satan’s manipulation was Eden perfect? FOR
1) It was Eve’s choice still
2) “God left free the will” It was ultimately Eve’s choice in the end to be guiled by Satan and sycophantic flattery
3) Reflects Christian view that we are all responsible for our own actions
4) “Earth trembled from her entrails” – unnatural and grotesque disequilibrium of actions
5) “Thickest wood” – Eve and Adam are aware of their actions but instead of seeking forgiveness they engage in their “carnal desires”
6) Christian view of OS and seminal Prescence / Cartias and Cupidas out of balance with Cupidas reigning over
