Milton:
William Blake: Milton was a true poet of the Devil’s party without knowing it
Ezra Pound: Milton is the worst sort of poison
Rose McCauley: "If Milton had been in the Garden of Eden he would have eaten the
apple, and then written a pamphlet to show how just and necessary his action was"
Eve
Arnold Stein: Eve is just asserting independence
J.M. Evans:
Eve’s motive is ‘love of her own power’
the fall has humanised Adam and Eve
D.K. McColley:
Eve is merely sinlessly concerned with efficiency
Milton broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress
Burden: Eve has to be alone intentionally and Adam must condone this, so that both
are responsible
Sandra M Gilbert:' Milton's Eve falls for exactly the same reason that Satan does:
because she wants to be 'as gods' and because, like him, she is secretly dissatisfied
with her place.'
Sean McEvoy: Jealousy then motivates the fallen Eve's desire to make Adam fall too
Andrew Milner: The fall consists essentially in the triumph of passion over reason
C.S Lewis:
She decides that if she is to die Adam must die with her; it is intolerable that he
should be happy
Eve falls through pride
J Martin Evans:
She loves her husband so dearly that she is going to kill him
Eve has become the type of all those evil temptresses of epic and romance who offer
their victims a poisoned cup with a smile of reassurance on their lips.
Mary Wollstonecraft: passionately repudiated the infantilisation of women that she
associated with Milton’s description of “our first frail mother”
Anna Beer: Milton 'demonstrates her [Eve's] quiet heroism
Samuel Johnson: 'Milton thought women made only for obedience
Bell: There was no Fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed
Adam
J.M Evans: the fall has humanised Adam and Eve
Burden: Eve has to be alone intentionally and Adam must condone this, so that both
are responsible
William Blake: Milton was a true poet of the Devil’s party without knowing it
Ezra Pound: Milton is the worst sort of poison
Rose McCauley: "If Milton had been in the Garden of Eden he would have eaten the
apple, and then written a pamphlet to show how just and necessary his action was"
Eve
Arnold Stein: Eve is just asserting independence
J.M. Evans:
Eve’s motive is ‘love of her own power’
the fall has humanised Adam and Eve
D.K. McColley:
Eve is merely sinlessly concerned with efficiency
Milton broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress
Burden: Eve has to be alone intentionally and Adam must condone this, so that both
are responsible
Sandra M Gilbert:' Milton's Eve falls for exactly the same reason that Satan does:
because she wants to be 'as gods' and because, like him, she is secretly dissatisfied
with her place.'
Sean McEvoy: Jealousy then motivates the fallen Eve's desire to make Adam fall too
Andrew Milner: The fall consists essentially in the triumph of passion over reason
C.S Lewis:
She decides that if she is to die Adam must die with her; it is intolerable that he
should be happy
Eve falls through pride
J Martin Evans:
She loves her husband so dearly that she is going to kill him
Eve has become the type of all those evil temptresses of epic and romance who offer
their victims a poisoned cup with a smile of reassurance on their lips.
Mary Wollstonecraft: passionately repudiated the infantilisation of women that she
associated with Milton’s description of “our first frail mother”
Anna Beer: Milton 'demonstrates her [Eve's] quiet heroism
Samuel Johnson: 'Milton thought women made only for obedience
Bell: There was no Fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed
Adam
J.M Evans: the fall has humanised Adam and Eve
Burden: Eve has to be alone intentionally and Adam must condone this, so that both
are responsible
