Eve's Apology In Defense Of Women Analysis

Humans are always seeking knowledge to progress further in life or even just to prove they are above others. In the poem "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" it explains why Adam should be blamed as well for Eve eating the fruit. Men are seen to be more superior to women and more powerful and knowing .In this case though it seems different since Adam was did not keep a good watch on Eve which ends up with her eating the fruit gaining more knowledge than Adam. Adam should have been the wiser one being he was put on earth first. Instead Adam ends up learning more from Eve since he takes the fruit from her hands and even ends up eating it without her having to persuade him. Lanyer proves this with the use of irony, contrast, and symbolism to develop the idea that men boast about being more
At the end of "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" it is explained how knowledge came from women and passed on to men. Lanyer shows this in line 807-88: "Yet Men will boast of Knowledge, which he took / From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned Book". Men will say they have more knowledge and more superior in comparison to women but Adam gain his knowledge from the fruit which h took out of the hands from Eve. Lanyer wrote an article called "To the Vertous Reader" which explain that at one point in life men and women will be equal. In the article Lanyer explains the irony of how men are born and are given life. She expresses this through “who forgetting they were borne of women, nourished of women, and that if it were not by the means of women, they would be quite extinguished out of the world...". Men gain everything from women they are raised and cared for by women they even come into the world because of women and at one point they too were women. Men gain their life from women but with still boast about being the superior sex but if it weren't for women they would not