Treatment of Eve in Paradise Lost Essay -- John Milton

The treatment of eve in Paradise LostWe bath 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 have 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 cunning to mislead herHe ended, and his words replete with hanky pankyInto her heart too easy entrance won.Fixed on the crop she gazed, which to beholdMight tempt alone, and in her ears the soundYet rundle 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 wailful 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, hardly she fully accepts the blame for sinning against both God and him. She argues that unity and cognise c...