ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Az Yet, False Premise
5 Dec 2012
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Milton goes to a lot of effort to set up the differences in adam and eve. One of the most obvious ways that he does this is by splitting up their stories. He wants to ensure that we know that they are not the same character. Differentiating the two falls: genesis book 3, v 6(ish) In genesis, adam and eve eat of the fruit in the same verse: the moment that eve takes of the tree, it"s in adam"s mouth as well. This is as if eve"s and adam"s fall are both part of a single action. Milton"s falls are much more drawn out. He"s trying to create some kind of suspense in a story where there really isn"t any. Eve"s fall in particular takes a long time. She spends a lot of time at the last minute thinking about what the serpent has done and trying to reason through it.
