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21 Cards in this Set
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"sacred influence" is reachable to us all should we reach out and take it. |
Sacred Influence |
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"Delight" |
Satan has this in him |
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"He for God only, she for God in him" |
They are counterparts but are not equal, Adam is superior. |
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Tree of Life = Okay |
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil = Bad |
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Adam and Eve's job was to tame nature, to bring order to nature |
Taming nature |
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Nature |
Dionyssian, rampant, wanton, lawless, unrestrained |
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Man |
Apollonian, moral, restrained, structured, civilising |
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Eden Lines 192-204 |
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Words linking to Heaven and God |
sacred light, incense, silent praise, grateful smell, vocal worship, sweetest scents and curs |
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Adam and Eve's role in the Garden of Eden sets them above nature (animals, plants, etc.) |
Hierarchy |
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Ascent: "as sacred light began to dawn" |
God's light dawning close to Adam and Eve |
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"for much their work outgrew / The hands' dispatch" |
Disequilibrium as a result of a problem Todorov's Narrative Theory |
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Melissa Bell: "We are already flawed. It was upon realising that we are flawed that descent begins." |
Descent |
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Milton: "Marriage should be two individuals complimenting each other and making each other better people." |
Marriage |
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Felix Culpa - Happy fall |
"O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer." “For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.” |
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The Fish Trap - Stanley Fish |
e.g. Wanton We are postlapsarian. Milton traps us, we read it differently. |
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Eve is underwhelmed in the Garden of Eden |
"Our day's work brought so little" |
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Eve is subservient to Adam because Adam is closer to God than her |
"Adam, well may we labour..." |
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Language Traps |
"Our pleasant task enjoined" sexual |
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"One night or two with wanton growth derides" sexual |
"With myrtle find what to redress till noon" |
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244/245: "In woman than to study household good" |
Adam fears the danger of working alone |
