Book 4 Paradise Lost - Book 4 Summaries - quotes and interpretation included, Berger PDF

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Book 4 Summaries - quotes and interpretation included, Berger...

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Coming to know the human being at loss ○ To know the human being is to be aware that death/the end is coming

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Breach Leaping of the wall

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Line 287 - first characterization of Adam and Eve ○ This is the first introduction of Adam and Eve as characters - thru God's view ○ The comparative effect of Adam & Eve, and Satan ■ Innocence and purity ■ The lack of complication ■ This is the ideal form of humanity - that God has made for man ■ This is as perfect man can be ■ Satan: is a being of complication, conflicts, paradox, indecipherability, angry, envious, at war with himself Relationship between interior being and the exterior space Line 296 - lines of hierarchy ○ Eve is in sense a less perfect human being than Adam ○ Not as pure, powerful, intelligent according Is eve being tricked by Satan or does she desire to break tradition and establish some space for herself Satan is slightly scared of Adam and believes he (Satan) is the lesser form so he goes for eve who is the weaker link Adam and eve are images of god standing as lords over all creation Line 355 - Satan's viewing of Adam and Eve ○ His reaction ○ He views them as an image of God, as perfect ■ Envy and sense of vengeance ○ Wants to destroy them Line 409 Being obedient is not being a living person of this time ○ The higher education is supposed to be about questioning, figuring out different things and different modes of life - not being tethered/chained to the life previous of your ○ When we link Adam to being the perfect for of being obedient - recognize the static nature of Adam is problematic for out time

This is what human beings should be now and perpetually - this doesn't match with how we think of being a human as to be ■ It doesn’t work - doesn’t allow for the differing possibilities we would like to see ○ "if you're not being obedient, you are not being human" - this is dangerous ■ You've become a serpant, evil, less than human ■ A figure that can't experience the same emotions and experiences an accepted citizen of human beings can be ○ The idea of worship/praising God ■ Declaring that everything you are, you owe to him ● Eve Speech - 440 ● Eve looking into the lake and being captured by the image of oneself ○ You can easily make that into a horrible thing - vanity, what a horrible sin ○ Looking into your reflection - way of self reflection, coming into conscious of yourself ○ Eve's first moment of supposed sin - coming into further knowledge of what it is coming to be human ■ More modernly human in our sense Humans: in and out of the world ■

Satan feels that he lost purpose when he was banished from heaven and tries to seek revenge on God by destroying everything he loves - targeting Adam and Eve ● Line 82 - "… forbids me and my dread of shame." ● The constant mental state that he was once enviable in heaven and now it's all lost ● He sees Adam and Eve as himself - he was in heaven ○ But if he can't be in heaven then neither can Adam and Eve ○ Like terrorism, US is wealthy and privileged but if they can't have it, nobody can so they destroy it Adam Awakens ● He realizes his pure purpose ○ He's given a simplistic life from god - ruler of everything as long as you tend to the garden, worship god, and don’t eat from tree of knowledge ● Nature is Thro's guiding power, he doesn't see any threats in the woods ● God is Adam's guiding power, he doesn't see any dangers or potential threats

Gender and Inequality ● Adam: created in God's image ● Eve: submissive to Adam, created FOR Adam ● Satan is scared of Adam ○ Eve: there are no characteristics shown about Eve except for her sexuality and her presence for Adam Satan establishes his role as evil thru the role of a shapeshifter ● Werewolves, vampires - shapeshifters ● Mainly they shapeshift to trick people ● Satan shapeshifts to introduce them to the tree of knowledge...