Adam & Eve
Transcript: "How can I live without thee, how forgoe Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn'd, To live again in these wilde Woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. " Any Questions? The End... Disobeys God’s will to please Eve Says to Eve: “The sacred Fruit forbidd'n! som cursed fraud Of Enemie hath beguil'd thee, yet unknown, And mee with thee hath ruind, for with thee Certain my resolution is to Die; How can I live without thee” Adam's Irresponsability John Milton Absence of Significance & Weight Book 9 Adam was strong, intelligent, and faithful But Eve tricked him "Certain to undergoe like doom, if Death Consort with thee, Death is to mee as Life; So forcible within my heart I feel [ 955 ] The Bond of Nature draw me to my owne, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our State cannot be severd, we are one, One Flesh; to loose thee were to loose my self." Fell for Eve Great Love for Eve Eve, The One and Only Companion Incapable to prevent his love from overwhelming his reason Says to Eve: "That sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under banne to touch. But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so Perhaps thou shalt not Die, perhaps the Fact Is not so hainous now, foretasted Fruit, Profan'd first by the Serpent, by him first Made common and unhallowd ere our taste..." Important: God's first-born human But: Lacks self identity Says to God after his creation: "To whom mild answer Adam thus return'd. Sole Eve, Associate sole, to me beyond Compare above all living Creatures deare, Well hast thou motion'd, well thy thoughts imployd How we might best fulfill the work which here..." Love Over Reason Paradise Lost Adam: Character Analysis "Sole Eve, Associate sole, to me beyond Compare above all living Creatures deare,..." Adam has the free will, just like Eve Blames Eve for being unworthy with her actions Eve blames him for letting her work alone "Is this Love, Is this the recompense Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve?"