Book 9 Paradise Lost - Book 9 Summary - quotes and interpretation included, Berger PDF

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Book 9 Summary - quotes and interpretation included, Berger...

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Humans are tempted to gain knowledge for themselves - to transgress/sin Satan approaching Eve - first appeal to her vanity ■ Line 535 ■ The nature of this rhetoric is confusing, twisting ■ She is merely human, simply a creation of the lord - her position in the hierarchy ■ Beneath God and Adam Eve's first reaction tot eh serpent ■ She's been warned by Adam and the Angel ■ Curiosity ■ This is not a reaction of "let me be in fear" Eating from the tree: gives you knowledge ■ Knowledge of sex and death Line 599-612 ■ Second iteration of Satan's appeal to Eve's vanity ■ Focuses on Satan's aspect of appeal ■ Once Satan figures out what Eve is on the hook for, he tailors his argument more specifically towards what she wants ■ Appeal to vanity ■ Once she responds and marvels at his ability to speak to gain knowledge, Satan realizes that this is the way to get to her ■ Sinks in farther by saying, "with these new powers, vision, perception, I have, I see you as the majesty you are. You are beautiful, you are the mistress of heaven. You are the sovereign, not God, nor Adam. I see the truth of this world. I'm seeing better, I have a better reality to the world now." ■ This is how Eve convinces herself - wants to be a better partner, she wants to be on the same pedestal as Adam - her ethos Line 615-646 ■ The light is leading you farther into the dark ■ When you are moved to pity or fooled to give shelter, take in refugee, you inherently become negatively feminine ■ Because Eve is female and Adam is more like God cause he's a man Latin for man: veerus as similar as virtue Line 643 ■ Eve: credulous mother

Our reason is our law ■ Satan: good tempter, isn't thrown off by the early "no" ■ Satan is speaking like an ancient greek oridor educated in the use of rhetoric ■ Pure use of rhetoric - aruguing as well as you can without taking sides, Milton believes in the side of God and believes that it is right It's satan like to be educated to be knowledged in any way that is evil It's satan like to be negatively feminine in any way What disqualifies you from being a human being: there's quite a bit Line 679-699 ■ Daring for knowledge, to be better, greater than what you are now is a critical aspect of being human ■ Develops out of the enlightenment ■ The romantic ethos of "let's be better, find forms of knowledge that are transgressant inherently" ■ Transidental figure is human The very thing that satan says will perfect eve actually imperfects her in the narrative - the perfect median point where the content perfects the imperfection ■ Nature of transgression/sin ■ What you think is going to illuminate acludes - makes you less than what you are Character of eve correlates with female passivity, rape culture, sexuality ■ Oversexualizing of eve - objectified by Milton ■ Ideal creature of the garden of Eden ■ But she's below Adam ■ Feminist quality of Eve ■ Wanderlust ■ Curious ■ Difference between her and Adam - not coincidental ■ Satan is jealous of Adam ■ Needs to be a snake to take away from Adam and Eve what God took from him ■ He was a high in heaven ■ Line 166 - incardate - possess the body, worldly vassal ■ Feeling sorrow for losing his seat in heaven ■ Milton pauses because he needs to take in Eve's beauty ■ 523 - Eve talking to a dicklike figure - Satan ■ Lense of feminism ■

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Line1022 ■ After they ate the fruit ■ We missed out on eating this ■ Eve never looked so beautiful ■ "lets go play" Oppressed by male characters all thruout the text ■ Adam ■ Satan ■ Milton - thru god's view Treated her like second-class citizen Milton claims that women just want to lure men into adultery ■ Men see women and men fall into their looks ■ Milton says that women just want to drag the men down with them "men have jobs while women have roles… rewrite the ancient myth" Adam says that Eve has him to do the thinking for them ■ Adam is confused as to why eve wants to think for her self Adam chose along with Eve's beauty to sin with her Eve did not deciseve her she loves him in her heart however, when Adam eats the apple he finds lust and just wants to fuck her ■ When they wake up, he blames everything on her ■ They now have the understanding of the bad in the world ■ Adam felt more unhappy than eve did ■ They understood the bad sides of the world ■ But adam took it the worst - questiongin her faith in god ■ Line 119-189 ■ Eve doesn't deny, she just wants adam to see that he too made the decision with her Creation of adam and eve were created for different reasons ■ Adam: to praise god ■ Eve: to please adam ■ Created from and for adam ■ Adam: created with flaws ■ Therefore so was eve ■ Even eating from tree, eve still loves Adam...