This presentation in some way helps to understand the character portrayal of Eve and to read her with a modern interpretation.

1. DEFENDING EVE FROM THE ATTACK OF A
FEMME FATALE ARCHETYPE
Preparedby- KAVISHAALAGIYA
Batch – MA 2019-21
Paper 1 - The Renaissance Literature
Roll No- 15
Enrollment no.- 2069108420200001
Email id- kavishaalagiya@gmail.com
Submitted to- S. B. Gardi Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Seme
ster
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2. FEMME FATALE ARCHETYPE
• Femme Fatale
• Cultural History-
• mysterious and seductive woman
• Cannot bear children
• morally dubious woman
• Usually mysterious
• Lures man to his irresistible doom
MOHINI, CIRCE, and HELEN OF TROY
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3. Portrayal of EVE in Genesis
• Subordinate and inferior to Adam
• As weak, seductive and evil
• The cause of Adam's disobedience
• The paradigm for the evil inherent in all
women
• “The mother of all living things” on the other
hand “The Mother of all Femme Fatale”.
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4. The devil’s
gateway
The
unsealer of
that
(forbidden)
tree
The first
deserter
of the
divine law
Misogynists
Quotes on
Eve
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5. Portrayal of EVE in Paradise Lost
“What fear I then, rather what know to fear
Under this ignorance of good and evil,
Of God or death, of law or penalty?”
(Milton)
• Tragic flaw of Eve- narcissism, vanity and her inquisitive
nature
• Milton- cannot be called a misogynist but can he be called a
proto-feminist?
“Immortal Eve,
For such thou art, from sin and blame entire" (9.291-2)KAVISHA ALAGIYA

6. • Manipulative
• Lack of sexual
knowledge
• Desire for
knowing
• Questioning
Attitude
• Sense of
Intelligence
• Convinces
Adam to share
the blame
Denouncing the theory of
Femme Fatale
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7. CONCLUSION- WHY ?
Narrative narrator
Patriarchal
mindset?
Narrator
of Bible
Misogynist?
Narrator
of Paradise
lost
Milton
proto
feminist?
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8. Purpose of Presentation
• To understand the character portrayal
of Eve and to read it with a modern
interpretation.
• To read the epic from a different
perspective.
• To raise robust questions on narration.
• Existence of a woman-just for blame?
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9. AS FAR AS
OBIDIENCE IS
CONCERNED…….
What
if
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10. REFERENCES
• https://margmowczko.com/misogynist-
quotes-from-church-fathers/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale
• The Holy Bible. Authorized King James
Version, Thinline ed., Zondervan, 2009.
• Paradise Lost- Book 9. John Milton.
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