Treatment of Eve in Paradise Lost Essay -- John Milton

The treatment of eve in enlightenment LostWe can see the poem deals with the entire story of mans fall from grace, including background for Satans motives. In Paradise Lost, Eve was tricked by Satan, who assumed the form of a serpent, into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Satan had whispered into her ear when she was asleep, and when he spoke to her later, he used his tricky to mislead herHe ended, and his words replete with guileInto her heart too easy entrance won.Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to beholdMight regulate alone, and in her ears the soundYet rung of his persuasive words, impregnedWith reason, to her seeming, and with truth,(Paradise Lost, 733-739).In the poem we get the picture that Adam is lamenting for the mistake they have done and specially blames and insults Eves female nature and wonders why do god ever created her. She begs his forgiveness, and pleads with him not to leave her. She reminds him that the snake tricked her, but she fully accepts the blam e for sinning against both divinity and him. She argues that unity and love c...