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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18. Conversely, when Satan and Eve are focus of attention, "Paradise Lost" becomes energized & exciting.
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19. Satan's disobedience in Heaven finds it's parallel in Eve's disobedience in Eden. Satan & Eve are both agents of change & drama.
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20. Ideologically, Milton was (with a few quirks) a fairly traditional patriarch: Eve is praised when submissive to Adam.
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21. The quirk in Milton's traditionalism is that he clearly likes sex, sees it as a gift & emphasizes Adam & Eve had good sex.
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22. But beneath Milton's explicit commitment to female submissiveness, there is covert sympathy for women (as he had sympathy for Satan)
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24. In conclusion, if Adam only knew how to keep his frigging mouth shut a little bit, we'd still be living in Eden free of sin and death
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@hughcmcbride I'm going to steal that joke.
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