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| | Uxoriousness, Genesis, and John Milton's Paradise Lost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In Paradise Lost, however, Milton adds details to the Genesis account that undercut the implied equality of Adam and Eve and emphasize Adam's uxoriousness, which is a sin precisely because the woman to whom he devotes himself is inferior. |
 | | Although he consents in Paradise Lost that in both man and woman shines "[t]he image of their glorious maker" (4.292), Milton makes it clear that Eve "resemble[s] less / His image who made both" (8.543-4; emphasis added). |
 | | In Genesis, the only hint of uxoriousness lies in God's condemnation of Adam as one who has "harkened unto the voice of [his] wife"; the main emphasis, however, is on the fact that Adam has "eaten of the tree, of which [God] commanded [him], saying, Thou shalt not eat" (3.17). |
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