Random Info Flashcards
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What kind of genre is it?
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A Christian epic with a tragic core
2
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Eve
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Some commentators have seen Eve’s arguments as a kind of calculated sophistry akin to Satan’s that demonstrates Eve’s complicity in her own fall.
Her argument, however, is more of innocence.
She has played the proper womanly role during Raphael’s visit, and now she simply wants more freedom and responsibility.
Perhaps she wants to show that she can be Adam’s equal.
To read Eve as a conniver is to overlook her naiveté and innocent desire to be more like Adam.
3
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When does the poem begin
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In media res
