Paradise Lost: Sin/Innocence Flashcards

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

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

Rachel Speght (20th)

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

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‘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
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‘Defaced, ________ and now to death _______?’

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

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

Bell (20th)

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‘Greedily she ________ without _________’

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‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’

  • Eagerness for knowledge, not ‘restrained’ by Gods restrictions/awareness of punishment
  • Unable to restrain her ‘greedy’ desires
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‘The corrupting of __________ begins with the corrupting of ______________’

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

John Leonard (20th)

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‘The _________ me ____________ and I did ____’

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‘The serpent me beguiled and I did eat’

Eve

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‘He ____ their _____________ with ______ of _______’

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‘He clad their nakedness with skins of beasts’

  • God clothing Adam + Eve’s shame
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‘_________ left to ________ shame’

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‘Naked left to guilty shame’

  • Spiritually naked
  • Their shame/guilt cannot be shielded
  • Nakedness acts as a perpetual reminder of their actions/shame
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‘the _________ being the stronger _______ is to bear a greater _________ than his ____’

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‘the husband being the stronger vessel is to bear a greater burden than his wife’

  • Adams sin is greater/heavier as he is the stronger being while she is merely a helper

Speght (A Muzzle for Melastomous)

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‘for a ____ is a __________ thing good for nothing else, and women are ________ by ________’

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‘for a rib is a crooked thing good for nothing else, and women are crooked by nature’

  • Women easily/inherently prone to sin
  • Use of biblical authority to criticise women

Swetnam (The Araignment of…)

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‘Both have ________, but thou against God ______, I against God and ____’

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‘Both have sinned, but thou against God only, I against God and thee’ (Eve)

  • Eve’s transgression against both God and Adam
  • Acknowledgement of her sin/her manipulation of Adam
  • The additional burden of her sin
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‘Earth felt the ________’,

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‘Earth felt the wound’,

  • Impact of Eve’s sin on the earth, widespread effect of the fall
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‘O _________ joys of _________ dear bought with lasting _____!’

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‘O fleeting joys of Paradise dear bought with lasting woes!’

  • Fleeting joy from eating the fruit
  • Brief enjoyment has led to eternal pain/sin
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‘Out of my _____, thou _________!’

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‘Out of my sight, thou serpent!’

  • Adam refers to Eve as a ‘serpent’
  • Her false nature, Eve is full of hellish impulses
  • Deceived Adam similarly to how Satan deceived her
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‘_________ by nature’

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‘Crooked by nature’

  • Adams view of women
  • Naturally/innately immoral
  • All women are tainted by sin
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‘the ____ of Adam and Eve was a ________ fault, a _____ culpa’

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‘the sin of Adam and Eve was a happy fault, a felix culpa’

Danielson
- If their sin had never occurred, the incarnation and redemption could have never occurred
- Their sin led to possibility of redemption/salvation for humankind