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1
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Eve main flaw

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want for power over Adam, naivety

2
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Satan main flaw

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hubris

3
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adam main flaw

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love for eve-but him eating the apple makes him fall out of ‘true love’ with her

4
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satan quote which shows his jealousy of man and the theme this shows

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” Provokes my envy, this new favourite

Of Heav’n” (hierarchy and order)

5
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satan quote which shows what he will do to eve and adam

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“Spite then with spite is best repaid”

6
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most famous line in the poem about eve eating the apple

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“…she plucked, she ate” (monosyllabic- shows the simplicity of the action)

7
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adam quote which shows the love adam has for eve

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“to lose thee were to lose myself”

8
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Satan quote where he is convincing eve to eat the fruit- about ambition- links well to DoM

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“And life more perfect have attained than Fate

Meant me, by vent’ring higher than my lot.”

9
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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

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“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

10
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adam quote about the fall and the corruption of eve

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“true in our fall,/False in promised uprising”