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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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13. Why did Eve listen to the serpent/Satan? Obviously because she was sick of always listening to Adam's blah-blah-blah.
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14. As always in Milton, it's interesting how his narrative instincts are at war with his explicit ideological intent.
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15. Blake: Milton was "a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."
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16. If Satan is the true hero of Paradise Lost, then Eve is the true heroine of the epic poem.
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17. Evidence of the Blakean reading comes from the poetry itself: when God & his servile angels take center stage, poem is static & didactic
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