Paradise Lost Mindmap
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- Paradise Lost
- Eve
- Quotes
- 'fairest unsupported flower'
- 'she plucked she ate, earth felt the wound'
- 'safest and seemliest by her husband stays'
- 'goddess amongst gods'
- 'greedily she engorged without restraint'
- 'render me more equal'
- 'her rash hand in evil hour'
- ‘sufficient to stand but free to fall’
- 'tresses all disordered'
- Critics
- C.S. Lewis - 'Eve falls through pride'
- C.S. Lewis - 'Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits murder'
- Turner - 'Milton both uses contemporary assumptions about women and is in conflict with them
- Smith - 'Eve only bids for power because Satan tells her she can venture higher than her lot'
- Coar - 'the hunger of Eden’s infamous apple-eater'
- Johnson - 'contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings'
- Context
- Myth of Narcissus - source of temptation to all characters Eve almost falls in love with herself,
- Sin as a foil to Eve - Sin always giving birth like eves punishment is to have a painful birth
- Sin dies by becoming multiple snakes, renaissance zoology believed snakes were born from crawling out of their parent
- Renaissance belief that only humans can sin – eve as the weaker sex, is she aware she is sinning, Adam only recognised as culpable because he knows that he is sinning as he does it
- Argument that Milton was a proto-feminist for presenting Eve as showing more repentance than Adam
- Moore - 'Milton shifts his interpretation of Genesis away from conventional misogyny to give Eve more sympathy, and more equality'
- Argument that Milton was a proto-feminist for presenting Eve as showing more repentance than Adam
- Quotes
- Adam
- Quotes
- 'fondly overcome with femal charm'
- 'carnal desire enflaming, in lust they burne'
- 'with my permission then'
- 'his eye pursu’d'
- 'was shee thy God'
- 'she gave me of the Tree, and I did eat'
- 'Adam, freely taste'
- Critics
- C.S. Lewis -Adam falls through uxoriousness
- Rust - 'The relationship between Adam and Eve in the first books is one of mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy.'
- Empson - ‘Milton though that men ought to control women’.
- Weston - 'Eve really believes she has acted in the best interests of herself, and by extension of Adam.'
- Context
- Divorce Tracts - more leniency in the church’s position on divorce, focus on spirtitual compatibility
- Before Paradise Lost became an Epic poem it was a play called Adam Unparadised with Adam as the Epic hero
- Quotes
- Satan
- Quotes
- 'stood stupidly good'
- 'fraudulent temptation'
- 'some orator renowned'
- '[God] our great forbidder'
- 'meditated in fraud and malice'
- 'onely in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts'
- 'false glitter'
- 'bent on mans destruction'
- 'Satan exulted sat'
- Critics
- Baldwin - '[Satan] is a tragic hero'
- Blake - 'Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it'
- Fish - 'Milton means for us to be seduced by Satan just as our forefathers were'
- Fowler - 'The implication is that Satan, besides talking persuasively, is acting a part'
- Carey - 'Satan is superior in character to Milton’s God'
- Blake - 'Milton wrote in fetter when he wrote of angels and God, and at liberty when of devils and hell.’'
- Context
- Charles I charged with tyranny and treason against the people – refused to accept the charges, reflected in Satan
- Blake believed Satan is the unintentional epic hero, in literary terms Satan is the hero – questing individual who bravely confronts death, compares him to Odysseus
- Quotes
- Eve
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