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- Title: Eve's Nature, Eve's Nurture in Dryden's Edenic Opera (Critical Essay)
- Author : Jennifer L. Airey
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 89 KB
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Abstract Although Eve of John Dryden's The State of Innocence embodies many egregious womanly flaws of misogynist rhetoric, recalcitrant elements of the opera suggest a profound degree of uncertainty about the degree of Eve's culpability for the Fall. Eve's pride leads to mankind's destruction, but the opera creates a structural parallel between Adam and Lucifer, intimating that Eve's disobedience is partially learned. Not all husbands are alike; if Adam is an appropriate ruler over Eve, Lucifer, that other Adam in paradise, is not. Transgressive female behavior may therefore originate in illegitimate domestic rulership, masculine deceit, and intellectual neglect.