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)
- man as the primary + woman as his complement/subordinate
‘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
‘__________ with another Eve’
‘Wedded with another Eve’
- Eve’s motivation to convince Adam to also sin
- Stems from her jealousy that Adam will move on/God will create another Eve
What form of ‘you’ does Eve employ with Adam + what does it suggest?
‘thou’ - informal
- signifies a level of intimacy, respect, and shared importance
‘Let us _________ our _________’
‘Let us divide our labours’
- Eve’s suggestion that her and Adam should tender the garden separately to lessen their work
- Perhaps an attempt to gain autonomy/independence
- Equal/mutual responsibility
‘I from the ___________ of your looks receive _________ in every _________’
‘I from the influence of your looks receive access in every virtue’
- Adam’s focus on Eve’s physical appearance
- Eve’s beauty encourages him to be more virtuous/moral
‘A ______ so proud will first the __________ seek’
‘A foe so proud will first the weaker seek’
- Adam suggesting that Eve is more likely to be targeted by Satan, as she is the weaker being
‘not __________ but ___________ with female ________’
‘not deceived but overcome with female charm’
- Adam aware of his disobedience, however is a slave/unable to control his lust for Eve
- Evidence of his uxuriousness
