Misogyny and Eve in Paradise Lost

Title: Misogyny and Eve in Paradise Lost
Category: Society & Culture / Religion | Words: 1473 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Misogyny and Eve in Paradise Lost

Misogyny is evident from the beginning of Paradise Lost. Eve was always made to look inferior mentally, physically and spiritually. In her quest to go off alone in the garden she wanted to prove that she was capable of being alone by herself without Adam; had she not been made to feel inferior she would not have felt the need to eat from the apple to equal Adam’s intellect. Eve is not less in …showed first 75 words of 1473 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1473 total…purposely had less knowledge and Adam and when still had no real knowledge of right and wrong before eating the apple? Adam loses all his anger and forgives Eve for being more frail and infirm by nature of her sex. In Adam's ideology, Eve is excused since she was too weak to defend herself from the serpent. Interestingly, Eve's inferiority becomes both the reason she transgressed God's rule, and the reason she should be forgiven.

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