Miscommunication In Lucrece

Using this flattery to compliment her beauty, and allowing her to recognize the fact that all of Eden's animals adore her, he slyly inserts the proposition that will allow her to become greater in power and being, "A Goddess among Gods," rivaling the omnipotent power possessed by God. Satan came in the form of a snake, the only reptile and animal that could have the ability to pluck the forbidden fruit from the tree. When questioned how he attained the ability to talk and interact, he simply answered that he ate the fruit of the tree, and received the knowledge equal to that of a human.

Eve’s hunger to become independent from Adam and all she is commanded to do is similar to Satan’s situation in that their yearn for power and singular identity lead them to revolt against their creator. Her desire to separate from Adam is first seen when she is introduced to the audience in her state of narcissism. She sees a reflection of herself in a pond and is in awe of her beauty “of sympathy and love,” (IV, 465) which shows the parallelism to Satan’s own arrogant vanity. He catches on to this similarity they share and decides she will be an easy target of persuasion. He quickly takes charge and plans how he will lead her to eat the apple from the “Tree of Knowledge,” which is the only tree that God prohibited to pick fruit from. Satan first catches her attention by being a serpent who speaks; something she had never encountered before. He smooth talks her into really listening to him by focusing his words around her and how much better life could be if she just took a bite

She holds Macbeth together when the guilt gets to him and explains to him to shake it off and that he’s done nothing wrong.

She believes that the purpose of the poem was to provoke readers (Webber 514). The confusion of Milton’s explanation and God’s intentions arise when Milton makes a claim that Adam and Eve’s plunge into the world of sin was indirectly the result of Lucifer, a serpent wondering around in the Garden of Eden. At this time, Satan becomes the central focus of this poem. Routinely in epic novels and poems the epic character narrates the tale. So for Satan to be the main narrator in books one and two begs to question whether Milton has lost focus in his story and inadvertently portrayed Satan as the epic hero.

Assuming the role of stronger partner, she manipulates Macbeth with effectiveness by ignoring his objections about the murder. Refusing to understand his doubts and hesitations about the situation, she scorns his manhood by calling him a, “coward,” (1.7.43) and questions his virility, “What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man,” (1.7.48-49) until Macbeth feels that he must commit the murder to prove himself.

“O Hell!” Satan’s opening exclamation of frustration immediately alerts readers to Satan’s state of mind. As Satan gazes on Adam and Eve, he is struck by their blissful state, which sends him into a spiral of confusion as he slightly reconsiders his plan to destroy them. To himself, Satan addresses the pair; he begins regretful and with pity for Adam and Eve. He later shifts in tone to vengeful, envious, and angry. Further exemplifying Satan’s contrasting attitudes, Milton uses antonymous words of emotion throughout the passage. By the end of passage, Milton solidifies Satan’s hardening of heart and ends the struggle that has been festering inside Satan since his first act of rebellion against God. Milton successfully uses both the shift in tone and the emotional diction to reveal Satan’s stormy internal conflict.

The fallen cherub angel is allowed to test Adam and Eve within the Garden of Eden. He begins by asking about God’s command; He then calls God a “Liar”, and that the girl is to be “Like God”. Sadly Eve falls, then takes her husband Adam to conjointly hear the Serpent, indwelt by Devil. As a result Adam and Eve, loose fellowship with God and dismissed from the Garden, beside the skins of two animals that had died to hide their shame. Before they're dismissed, God spells out His set up of redemption that in some unspecified time in the future through the “Seed” of the girl, the pinnacle of the serpent would be done (Satan), even through the Serpent would wound the heel of the approaching “Seed of the Woman”, and then Satan would be devastated.

She speaks with sharp words riddled with rhetorical questions. When she is given Macbeth’s letter, her following monologue is full of nefarious emotion: “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse . . .” (1.5.47-51). Her plea for a detached mind creates utmost irony, for Lady Macbeth is a character that relies purely on emotion, albeit wicked. In asking for no emotion, she becomes solely dependent on her emotions. She later prepares herself for what she and her husband must do to Duncan: “Come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife not see the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry ‘Hold, hold!’” (1.5.57-61). Giving up her femininity and allowing hell to preserve her shows unnerving dedication. Lustful for power, Lady Macbeth is willing to literally do anything to place her husband on the throne. Therefore, she shows devotion to both her causes and Macbeth. She, like her husband, is honorable to her causes. Later she uses her manipulative diction to convince her husband to kill Duncan. She continually berates him: “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? From this time

She loves her husband and expects him to make a decision confidently. She doesn't cower from her husband's sullied desires and she embraces them as her own. The fact that she has character contrasts with her husband along with her love and assertiveness. Within her love, she fears not the consequences but Macbeth's perplexion itself- the real danger. She begs her 'mortal thoughts, unsex me here'(1.

The double revenge cycle of the play portrays an escalation in violence, creating an environment where the perpetrator seeks to act out something worse than they themselves experienced; thus, the sexual nature of the crimes committed against Lavinia are seized upon by Titus. Tamora says to Lavinia before her rape: ‘Shall I rob my sweet sons of their fee. | No, let them satisfy their lust on thee’ (2.2.179-80). This is an act of symbolic violence later echoed by Titus, as he says to Chiron and Demetrius that he will ‘bid that strumpet, your unhallowed dam, | Like to the earth to swallow her own increase’ (5.2.190-1). The escalation in symbolic violence correlates to the increase in subjective violence; threats are fulfilled by violent acts,

"The Devil!" screamed the pious old lady." (Hawthorne 3) The old Puritan woman is walking through the heathen forest in prayer, and clearly acknowledges the snake staff to be that of the devil. Not only could the serpent-like staff represent the devil itself, which is also conveyed as a serpent in the Bible, but it can also convey the sly, snake-like personality of the elderly traveler, who knows just what giving the staff to Brown would do to him. In Bible, the serpent in the Garden of Eden encourages Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil". (Genesis 3:4-5) The sly character of Brown's companion resembles the sly character of the devil in the story of Adam and Eve in relation to the fall of Man. Once Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge, sin and transgression of the law came unto Man. Likewise, the traveler knew that if Brown walked with his staff, he would no longer be blind to see the sin among his ‘Puritan' family and

First, to prove that Satan must be something more than a mere “favored” angel, some kind of divine being, let us consider Adam’s longing for a companion (as I think the concept here holds basis): he reasons with God as to why it is appropriate for him to have an equality alongside, and of course, God, “not displeased,” grants Adam’s request, that is to become, Eve. Now imagine God in the shoes of Adam, that is

However, while she does have genuine love for him, she also is power-hungry. If her husband becomes King, she will be Queen, and the thought of such nobility entices her. Her wants are selfish because they hurt Macbeth and she forces him to act through a combination of emasculation, saying, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.49), and sexual manipulation, drawing attention to her breasts with, “I have given suck” (1.7.54). She never tells him to act because it will make him happy or even to act because she loves him. Later in the play, she realizes her wrongs and goes mad. The doctor remarks, “infected minds/To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets” (5.1.62-63), implying that she is sick in the head because of her wrong-doings. She obviously feels remorse when she sleepwalks, trying to wash away the imaginary blood because she says, “Hell is murky” (5.1.31), showing her fear of what fate she will meet after she dies. If her motives were only fused with love and support for her husband, she would not have felt the compulsion to better her hierarchal standing in society and would have been content to live as a noblewoman. Furthermore, she would have seen that Macbeth has no initial want or need to kill and that his prophesy would have been fulfilled without his own interference as Banquo’s had been.

Serpent is repeated throughout the Bible for example, Deuteronomy 32:33 (“Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.”) and Job 20; 14 (“yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.”) These are a few examples of this repetition , suggests that the serpent is important within the Bible however he is always mentioned in reference to evil. The serpent plays an important role in this passage , as he the instigator of the fall in which he tempts Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. He challenges the credibility of God by convincing Eve to eat from the tree, which presents God as being devious which contradicts the omnibenevolent God presented by Christianity. John E. Toews agrees as he argues that at the conclusion of the dialogue the issue is can God be trusted? Has God been completely truthful with humans? A pious question about God is really a very cunning question because it forces the woman to render a judgment about God. The serpent could be seen as a

In a way, Satan's rebellion is reminiscent of Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave." It can be argued that Satan has come to realize that he has other options and has the option of breaking free from ignorance. "The allure of free will is where the attractiveness and power of Satan's character lies" (Zeng). Satan is an individual who wants to break others from their ignorance and will do so by appealing to their reason and encouraging them to make their own decisions (Plato). Moreover, Satan did not force Eve to eat the Forbidden Fruit as Eve contends before eating it, "Our reason is our Law" (Milton Book IX line 654). Additionally, Satan is not described by Milton as someone that forceful, but rather is repeatedly referred to as "The Tempter" (Book IX, line 665).