Flashcards in Paradise Lost- Book 9 character flaws and failings Deck (10)
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Eve main flaw
want for power over Adam, naivety
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Satan main flaw
hubris
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adam main flaw
love for eve-but him eating the apple makes him fall out of 'true love' with her
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satan quote which shows his jealousy of man and the theme this shows
" Provokes my envy, this new favourite
Of Heav’n" (hierarchy and order)
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satan quote which shows what he will do to eve and adam
"Spite then with spite is best repaid"
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most famous line in the poem about eve eating the apple
"...she plucked, she ate" (monosyllabic- shows the simplicity of the action)
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adam quote which shows the love adam has for eve
"to lose thee were to lose myself"
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Satan quote where he is convincing eve to eat the fruit- about ambition- links well to DoM
"And life more perfect have attained than Fate
Meant me, by vent’ring higher than my lot."
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adam quote about eve's eating the fruit allowing them to see true evil in the world- what does the quotation show
"Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got"-- by eve's ambition to have higher status they are both now able to fully see the evil in the world- not naïve anymore
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