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Book 4 Adam and Eve’s love

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connubial love

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pastoral imagery within PRElapsarian Eden
sense all in action, peaceful harmonius chaos,

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sacred light
humid flower
morning incense
Analysis: subverts where God breathes into nostrils of creatures in Genesis 2, symbiotic relationship here

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disruption of edeonic pastorality w garland

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From his slack hand the Garland wreath’d for Eve
Down drop’d, and all the faded Roses shed

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Adam loss after eve reveals shes eaten apple

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defaced, deflowered and now to death devote?
alliteration amplifies this pathos but also mimics the physical tumbling and regression of them in the great chain of being

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5
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corrupt love of book nine

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carnal desire inflaming

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eve as meek

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fairest unsupported flower

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satan lang corrupted

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pluck…plenty…pleasure
satans pleasure in corrupting eve, revels in evil as revenge for exile from heaven, does succeed

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transgression of light throughout book

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sacred light
to later on
insufferably bright

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eve to God as tyrannt

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the forbidder

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10
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theatricality and tragedy of book

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No more
those notes to tragic

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Satan’s as binary to God

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means adversary
the forbidder vs the tempter
“Oh foul descent!” whilst Christ selflessly embraces his reduction through incarnation as a man, Satan complains
vs “this man of clay, son of despite” and “spite then with spite is best repaid” he diminses this petty act of spite satan takes narrative controlover thr porm, driving force , human loss of divine reason is mere refuge for he who suffered the greatest loss- falling from heaven

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Satan as a courtly lover

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“serpent tongue” an instrument like the flute used to woo

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Satan capitalising on Eves independence

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Wonder not, sovereign mistress, if perhaps/Thou canst, who art sole wonder

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14
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Satan as Pagan

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Gods, Maker

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Eve as temptress and wanton

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wanton ringlets” and “wanton growth

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Eve develops Satanic doctrine

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Superior; for inferior who is free
like God in BIII Die he or justice must

“Reach then” Satan Spondi
“Lead then” eve Spondi

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Eve’s fall as dramatised esp w Puritan M

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heightened as with wine, jocund and boon

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18
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Eve using heirarchy and order to seduce Adam

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says equal x3

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19
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Adam falls like Satan both hamartia

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if death/ Consort with thee, death is to as life

vs Satan in B4
Evil be thou my good

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20
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Milton misognyny

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Him to worth in women overtrusting/Lets her will rule; restraint she will not brook

21
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God like Satan

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the asyndeton (listing without conjunctions) and use of synonyms seen in Satan’s question, ‘Is this the region, this the soil, the clime…’ (I.242), are present in God’s description of the adversary: “Prescribed, no bars of hell, nor all the chains”

22
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Satan :(

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God has caused him to collapse from “inward grief

23
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Eve believes love faith and co must be tested or mean nothing

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What is faith, love, Virtue unassaid

24
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Eve as animal eating apple

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she pluck’d, she eat
engorged without restraint

25
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Adam’s hamartia is his love for Eve rather than reason, what R told him in B8
Eve loves God through Adam her love for him is secondary

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How can I live without thee?

26
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Milton making it seem like Eve persuades A

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Adam, freely taste

BUT he has free will

26
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Adam worhshipping tree

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bountie of this virtuous Tree

27
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Satan epic simile seducing eve

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As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought

28
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Adam falling because of eves charm

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but fondly overcome by female charm

29
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Adam to eve

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daughter of God and man, immortal eve

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thou
and thus -emphasis of fall

30
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Milton being funny and ironic

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the fruitless hours

31
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Hazlitt on Satan rom

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Satan is the most heroic subject that was ever chosen for a poem

32
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God vs Satan

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His disobedience also personified in that he is closest to the floor-lowest chain of being.disobedience through his deceitful and performed selves: arch villain self, animalistic appearance, humanised emotive self- parallel w idea of triune God, three others, God, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit, which is oft presented as dove

33
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Stein and Johnson on Milton on women

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“turkish contempt for women” “subordinate and inferior”

34
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Empson on God

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Uncle Joe Stalin

35
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Stanley Fish on us

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we are meant to be seduced like our forefathers

36
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Erasmus vs Luther

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Erasmus and Luther’s debate on necessity of free will- erasmus says rp only made w free will, luther says not true- the Responsibility Principle (humans are morally responsible in the eyes of God)

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Chikako Tanimoto

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“Eve is a patriarchal ideal of womanhood deprives of her autonomous identity and trained to be obedient”

38
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Jessica Martin on Milton on God

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“whether Milton intends to or not, his argument indicts God as careless and cruel”

39
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Margaret Kean on PL as a theodicy

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Milton adopts the voice of the prophet of death and lamentation”, questions the notion of free will that stands at the base of Christianity

40
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Adam heirarchy and his love balanced/ milton progressive?

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‘I from the influence of thy looks receive/Access in every virtue, in thy sight/ More wise, more watchful, stronger

-tricolon of comparatives and emphatically placed use of ‘access’- presence of a loved one enables an intense augmentation of each individual’s respective virtues-plato symposium-value of mental stimulation for lover
-rennaiissance christins like milton-placement of these in a Biblical context is used to justify his belief that it is God’s purpose to encourage spiritual harmony between husband and wife
-The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce’-17thc divorce grounds undermining the importance of the spiritual and virtuous compatibility Adam so eloquently describes.
-adams latinate syntax, like grandiose epics of Latin tradition, like the Aeneid, and thus Milton emphasises the grandness of the story he tells.
- this is og couple best relationship,
- influnece”- raises eve to celestial level-great extent of Adam’s love and respect for Eve by placing it in a recognisable romantic framework. Adam is thus reliant on Eve for the elevation of his virtue, just as she is reliant on him to guard hers.

41
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McColley refers to Milton’s ‘radical insistence on women’s spiritual completeness, responsibility and fitness for all ‘rational delight’

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miltns most radically porpgessive depiction of relationship

42
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Milton on discurse is pleasureable result of great chain of being his theodicy

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‘leave not the faithful side/ that gave thee being, still shades thee and protects./The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,/Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,/Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.’
-Thus the relationship between Adam and Eve becomes a microcosm for society and religion at large, in which the rebellion of the inferior poses a danger to the stability and perfection of both - just as Eve’s assertion and exercise of independence enables the fall and subsequent disruption of Eden. Milton asserts his point through his use of the 3rd person ‘the wife’ in Adam’s speech as a break from the 2nd person address to Eve, making it applicable to the role of wives generally in marriage. The problem of hierarchy has been addressed by numerous critics, including Diane McColley, who argues that to look back and find fault with Milton’s depiction of their relationship is to take a post-lapsarian perspective

43
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fall initiated by eves deviation from the structured heirarchy of eden

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John Rogers describes her as “subversive spirit” of the poem for this reason
“thus saying, from her husbands hand her hand/ soft she withdrew, and like a woodnymph light”
augustinian theological teaching influenced c thought, said eve and women were not created in imago dei as men were, thus must stay close to hubby to remain in imago dei
withdrawing is the moment eve truly begins to fall

44
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miller on fall relation to heriarhy

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instability is inherent in this heirarchy and so this gradual separation is expected

45
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synderesis

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in born knowledge of principles of moral action
the essence, ground, or center of the soul that enters into communion with God

46
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Miltons ambitions

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i may assert eternal providence,/ and justifie the wayes God to men

47
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Fish on Miltonic style

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“loose style” of satan which irresponsibly digresses, moving away from logical coherence and call attention to virtuosity of speaker
whereas God “his eloquence is not eloquenec at all, but the natural persuasiveness that is inseperable from wisdom”

Milton's Paradise Lost Book IX (2 decks)

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