Quotes

Question 1

Eve wanting to separate

Answer 1

‘Let us divide our labours’

Question 2

Eve wanting to be equal to Adam, so debating not telling him she ate the fruit

Answer 2

‘render me more equal… superior: for inferior who is free?’

Question 3

Eve’s jealousy

Answer 3

‘Adam wedded to another Eve, shall live with her enjoying, I extinct’

Question 4

Telling Adam to eat the fruit to make them equal

Answer 4

‘Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot may joyne us, equal joy, as equal love’

Question 5

Eve defending herself against Adam postlapsarian

Answer 5

‘Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib’

Question 6

Adam compared to Eve

Answer 6

‘Higher intellectual’

Question 7

Blasphemous and hubristic, flattering Eve

Answer 7

‘A Goddess among Gods’
‘Celestial Beautie’
‘Goddess humane’

Question 8

Wife should stay with husband for protection

Answer 8

‘Safest and seemliest by her husband staies’

Question 9

Adam not wanting to lose Eve

Answer 9

‘To loose thee were to loose myself’

Question 10

Blaming Eve

Answer 10

‘O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare to that false worm’

Question 11

Shift to postlapsarian world

Answer 11

‘I now must change those notes to tragic’

Question 12

Eve being deceived

Answer 12

‘O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve’

Question 13

Satan not being truly evil, guilt

Answer 13

‘Back to the thickest slunk the gulitie serpent’

Question 14

Eve eating the fruit

Answer 14

‘Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint’

Question 15

Macrocosmic event

Answer 15

‘She pluck’d, she ate, Earth felt the wounds’

Question 16

Postlapsarian sex being lustful and sinful

Answer 16

‘In lust they burne’

Question 17

Adam falling by uxouriousness

Answer 17

‘Not deceived, but fondly overcome with femal charm’

Question 18

Adam eating the fruit, impact on nature

Answer 18

‘Nature gave a second groan’

Question 19

Adam and Eve realising what they’ve done and feeling guilt

Answer 19

‘Unkindly fumes with conscious dreams’

Question 20

Criticising one another

Answer 20

‘The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemming’

Question 21

Narrator judges Adam and Eve

Answer 21

‘They deserved to fall’

Question 22

Narrator on Adam’s intelligence

Answer 22

‘His more attentive mind’

Question 23

Satan blamed for Eve’s fall, but Eve caused Adam’s

Answer 23

‘The Serpent, had perverted Eve, her husband shee’

Question 24

Adam is infected by evil

Answer 24

‘His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect’

Question 25

Eve was flawless to Adam

Answer 25

'Thy perfect gift'

Question 26

Future humans born sinners

Answer 26

'born to certain woe, devoured by death at last'

Question 27

Adam suggests Eve has failed her duty

Answer 27

'This woman whom thou mad'st to be my help'

Question 28

Adam blames Eve

Answer 28

'Her doing seemed to justify the deed' 'That from her hand I could suspect no ill'

Question 29

Adam forgives Eve and acknowledges his own failure

Answer 29

Thy frailty and informer sex forgiven, To me committed and by me exposed'

Question 30

Adam relents upon seeing Eve's despair

Answer 30

'But rise, let us no more contend, nor blame'

Question 31

Adam on God and justice

Answer 31

'God and his just yoke Laid on our necks'

Question 32

Adam tries to see hard work in a positive light

Answer 32

'My labour will sustain me'

Question 33

Eve honest about her actions

Answer 33

'The Serpent me beguil'd and I did eate'

Question 34

Eve suggests suicide

Answer 34

That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing'

Question 35

Eve puts more blame on herself

Answer 35

'both have sinned, but thou Against God only, I against God and thee'

Question 36

Eve's punishment as well as childbirth

Answer 36

'to thy husband's will Thine shall submit, he over thee shall rule'

Question 37

I MUST NOW CHANGE THESE NOTES TO TRAGIC (9.5-6)

Answer 37

• AO1- Milton's narrative voice is dominant- we are aware of his purpose 'to justify the ways of God to man' (1. 25-26) • AO1- Indicates a shift in content and tone- move from prelapsarian to postlapsarian world • AO3- Literary Context of Tragedy (Aristotle). This links to the underlying tragic structure of Paradise Lost. • AO3- Is it a tragedy? Consider the Felix Culpa and the dialectical tension this causes. • AO4- Ideas about tragic heroes and tragic falls; drastic shifts in tone or atmosphere

Question 38

FITTEST IMP OF FRAUD, IN WHOM TO ENTER AND HIS DARK SUGGESTIONS HIDE FROM SHARPEST SICHT

Answer 38

•AO1- Satan has to choose a sneaky looking creature to disguise his thoughts. Links to Genesis- the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal' (II. 89-91) •AO4- Theme of appearance vs reality, disguise and deception • AO1- Dichotomy of light and dark • AO3- Satan's names: Lucifer is Latin for 'light-bringer'; Satan is Hebrew for 'the adversary'; Satan was introduced in the Bible as 'the arch enemy'. He's defined by his opposition to heaven.

Question 39

God's throne

Answer 39

'Throne Supream'