ENGL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aphrodisiac, Terah, His People
8 Jun 2018
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Milton and the Chester plays Monday, September 18, 2017
-When Satan first talks to Eve (“What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?”)
•Eve is surprised and shocked at him being able to sepal
-Her curiosity gets her hooked (“the fruit gave me power”)
•Eve does not yet know what tree the snake is talking about
-Argument: you will not die, since I did not die. And if you do die, it would be our
human parts that dies to make space for a greater god-like power.
•The snake is good at rhetoric. The snake argues very well
Epic simile: an extended simile that takes over several lines
-Pathetic fallacy: Nature reacts in sympathy to what’s going on
•“so saying she plucked, she ate… nature quivered”
-Everything in the poem builds up to this moment. It is irreversible. It forever
changes the history of the world and the nature of mankind.
-Very rash decisions are made by Eve
•She doesn’t think about it. She doesn’t think about consequences. She just does it
-Line 815: After the act is done, she thinks of the consequence
•You can already see that she;s thinking of herself first over Adam. There’s change
already.
-They are already divided.
-Switch of scene: Adam’s point of view (POV)
•Line 857: How Eev talks about the fruit. She does share her fear that she will die
and he’ll have another wife.
•She tries to hide her her problems from Adam, but fails
-She cannot completely hide the consequences of her action
-Her divide from Adam can be seen
•Adam; I will do this because we’re together (he’s still selfless)
-There is the repetition of pathetic fallacy when Adam eats the fruit
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Document Summary
When satan rst talks to eve ( what"s a girl like you doing in a place like this? : eve is surprised and shocked at him being able to sepal. Her curiosity gets her hooked ( the fruit gave me power : eve does not yet know what tree the snake is talking about. Argument: you will not die, since i did not die. And if you do die, it would be our human parts that dies to make space for a greater god-like power: the snake is good at rhetoric. Epic simile: an extended simile that takes over several lines. Pathetic fallacy: nature reacts in sympathy to what"s going on: so saying she plucked, she ate nature quivered . Everything in the poem builds up to this moment. It forever changes the history of the world and the nature of mankind. Very rash decisions are made by eve: she doesn"t think about it.
