Paradise Lost: Sin/Innocence

Question 1

‘woman first _______, yet find we no mention of spiritual ____________ till the man had _______’

Answer 1

‘woman first sinned, yet find we no mention of spiritual nakedness till the man had sinned’

Rachel Speght (20th)

Question 2

‘Soon found their ____ how __________ and their _____ how __________’

Answer 2

‘Soon found their eyes how opened and their minds how darkened’

• Knowledge of their guilt has permeated/disturbed their sleep
• The immediate effects of their sin

Question 3

‘Defaced, ________ and now to death _______?’

Answer 3

‘Defaced, deflow’red, and now to death devote?’

• Eve has lost her purity/Innocence
• Fall from grace
• Plosive ‘d’
• In love/deviated to death = accepting of her punishment

Question 4

‘There was no ____, Adam and Eve were always _______’

Answer 4

‘There was no fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed’

Bell (20th)

Question 5

‘Greedily she ________ without _________’

Answer 5

‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’

• Eagerness for knowledge, not ‘restrained’ by Gods restrictions/awareness of punishment
• Unable to restrain her ‘greedy’ desires

Question 6

‘The corrupting of __________ begins with the corrupting of ______________’

Answer 6

‘The corrupting of innocence begins with the corrupting of language’

John Leonard (20th)

Question 7

‘The _________ me ____________ and I did ____’

Answer 7

‘The serpent me beguiled and I did eat’

Eve

Question 8

‘He ____ their _____________ with ______ of _______’

Answer 8

‘He clad their nakedness with skins of beasts’

Question 9

‘_________ left to ________ shame’

Answer 9

‘Naked left to guilty shame’

• Spiritually naked
• Their shame/guilt cannot be shielded
• Nakedness acts as a perpetual reminder of their actions/shame