Sin

Question 2

Earth’s reaction

Answer 2

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing

Question 3

Eve deifies herself

Answer 3

by thee I grow mature
In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know;

Question 4

Eve questions about telling Adam

Answer 4

But to Adam in what sort
Shall I appeer?

Question 5

How does eve refer to god and angels

Answer 5

Our great Forbidder, safe with all his Spies

Question 6

Line 825, eve asks about superiority..

Answer 6

inferior who is free?
Challenges great chain of being

Question 7

Eve moving away from tree

Answer 7

So saying, from the Tree her step she turnd,
But first low Reverence don,

Eve worships the tree; Milton depicts her as slipping into a kind of Druidic idolatry

Question 8

About the trees sap

Answer 8

sciential sap, deriv’d
From Nectar, drink of Gods.

• evocative of Tantalus

Question 9

Adam and flowers

Answer 9

Waiting desirous her return, had wove
Of choicest Flours a Garland
(…) Harvest Queen

• poignant tone

Question 10

Eve to Adam after eating fruit

Answer 10

“Thee I have misst (…) agonie of love (…) pain of absence”

Could argue Eve’s punishment is twofold: pain in childbirth and simultaneously to desire her husband.
Or this is performative, subsumes Satan’s language
Contrast, before she wanted independence, now she wants to be close to him

Question 11

Eve tempting Adam

Answer 11

To open Eyes, and make them Gods who taste;
And hath bin tasted such

• idea of proof by tasting, Aereopagitica

Question 12

Eve tempting Adam pt 2

Answer 12

Equal Lot (…) equal Joy, as equal Love

Question 13

Flower garland dropping

Answer 13

“Down drop’d and all the faded Roses shed”

Question 14

Adams reaction

Answer 14

Defac’t, deflourd, and now to Death devote?

Question 15

Idea of togetherness

Answer 15

Flesh of Flesh,
Bone of my Bone thou art

Question 16

What does he call eve

Answer 16

“Adventurous Eve” vs “domestick Adam” - idea of reversed gender roles