Paradise Lost: Love/Marriage Flashcards
‘flesh of ______, bone of my ______’
‘flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone’
‘Safest and __________ by her husband ______’
‘Safest and seemliest by her husband stays’
‘Our ____ cannot be ___________. We are ____’
‘Our state cannot be severed. We are one’
‘Who can be ________ that woman was __________ for man, and not _____ for woman’
‘Who can be ignorant that woman was created for man, and not man for woman’
Milton (17th)
‘Adam fell through ____________’
‘Adam fell through uxuriousness’
CS Lewis (20th)
Biblical ideas about marriage (Ephesians 5:22-24)
‘Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord’
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’ Adam shall ______ with me in ______ or ____’
‘Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe’
‘for nothing ________ can be found in _________ than to study ____________ good’
‘for nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good’
‘but from his ______, near his ______, to be his _______’
‘but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal’ (Eve was made)
Speght (‘A Muzzle for Melastomous)
‘leading a _______, lazy and ____ life, to the great __________ of their poor _________’
‘leading a proud, lazy and idle life, to the great hindrance of their poor husbands’
- Wives are a burden to their husbands
- Describing marriage as a tedious obligation + women as an inconvenience
Swetnam (The Araignment…)
‘We may ________ each other’s _________ in our share of _____’
‘We may lighten each other’s burden in our share of woe’
- Adams desire to share/split the weight of their sin + woe
