Paradise Lost Flashcards
Book 9: Adam does not eat the fruit because he is tempted, but because
‘Our state cannot be severed, we are one, / One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself’
Book 9: Eve eavesdrops
That such an enemy we have, who seeks / Our ruin, both by thee informed I learn, / And from the parting angel overheard / As in a shady nook I stood behind, / Just then returned at shut of evening flow’rs
Book 9: When Adam asks about the stars, Eve
Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flow’rs, / To visit how they prospered, bud and bloom, / Her nursery;
Book 5: the snake talks to Eve about the celestial bodies … and asks,
‘now reigns / Full orbed the moon’
‘is knowledge so despised?’
Book 4: Eve turns away from Adam, preferring,
‘that smooth wat’ry image’
Book 4: Adam chastises Eve, demanding she ‘Return’, not
‘fli’st, of him thou art, / His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent / Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart’
Book 4: Eve prefers her own form because Adam’s is
‘less fair, / Less winning soft, less amiably mild’
Book 8: Rather than rejecting him due to a potentially lesbian desire for a female body she knows not to be her own, Eve resists Adam out of
‘virgin modesty’
‘virtue […] / That would be wooed’
