1. Adam as the First Mansplainer: A New Reading of Milton's Paradise Lost.
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2. Reading Milton's Paradise Lost I was struck by how male characters (God, Jesus, the Angels) are yakking all the time & Eve stays quiet
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3. I could talk about Godsplaining and Angelsplaining in the poem, but let's focus on Adam as mansplainer.
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4. Adam likes to talk. He asks God to create a companion so he won't be alone (i.e. he so he can yak away at someone).
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8. Like many women married to mansplainer, Eve learns to tune out what her husband is saying. It's a survival strategy.
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6. Milton is explicit on this in Book 8, lines 40-50. Adam and the Angel Raphael are having bull session about cosmic stuff & Eve is bored.
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7. "So spake our Sire, and by his count'nance seemd Entring on studious thoughts abstruse, which Eve [hating to listen to] went forth"
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8. Even leaves because "as not with such discourse Delighted"
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9. Of course Milton wants to say that Eve doesn't have the brains to listen to Adam's lofty thoughts, but another reading is possible.
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10. In Book 9, Eve tells Adam she wants to be alone for a bit. Adam, a real controlling dude, resists but ultimately relents.
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11. Adam himself admits his yakkiness is a bit too much: "But if much converse perhaps Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield."
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12. Eve going off by herself sets the stage for the serpent/Satan tempting her.
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