Paradise Lost
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Submitted by larissawang on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Paradise Lost
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"Paradise Lost," written by Milton, is an epic poem tells the story of Satan's rebellion against God and the fall and disobedience of Adam and Eve. The selected speech above is a taken from a conversation between Adam and Raphael in Book VII regarding Eve. Is the claim about Eve true? Is Eve really weaker than Adam as she is created to be? According to the poem, God makes Eve from a rib taken from Adam's side, and this is the reason why Eve is bounded to be subservient to Adam. Woman is portrayed as the weaker gender in this poem. Eve and the female nature are insulted and blamed throughout the poem, and Milton even further suggests that Eve should take the sole responsibility of human's fall. Also, by describing Eve's obsession with her own reflection, Milton illustrates women's vanity and the danger it could bring. The presentation of the differences between Edam and Eve throughout the poem, with Adam as the superior, strikes me as misogynistic.
Adam and Eve, the first humans created by God, are obliged to take care of the garden given by God, The Garden of Eden. They are also obliged to carefully obey God's order to restrain from eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Satan, who sees the gender inferiority in Eve, takes advantage of it. He approaches Eve by taking the form of a serpent. He, now in the form of a serpent, flatters Eve by praising her beauty and grace and tells her that eating from the Tree of Knowledge can give her God's grace and power. Although God says eating from the Tree of Knowledge means death, seeing that the serpent not only survives but also gains the ability to talk after eating from it, Eve reaches for the fruit and takes a bite of it. After disobeying God, Eve's first thought is to find Adam and share the fruit with him. Seeing her beloved one has defied God and fears that he might lose Eve, therefore, Adam eats the fruit. After they have both eaten the...
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