ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In Paradise Lost, Eve is prideful and Adam is loving, but only when that pride and love is twisted do they sin. Only when our intentions are confused by outside forces do we commit evil.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eve in Paradise Lost is vain vulnerable and evidently intellectually inferior to Adam. However, Sandra M Gilbert argues that, though Milton portrays her as a weak character, he also puts her on a par with Satan in her refusal to accept hierarchy and because of her ability to move the plot of Paradise Lost forward.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem illustrates how He considered Adam and Eve to have within themselves the capacity to withstand temptation, but that they chose not to. This decision is known as ‘the fall’ because it is the moment when the couple – and all their descendants – fell from God’s grace.

Detailed explanation-4: -concept of the Second Eve. conceived the flesh of the Omnipotent; both sexes were involved in our fall, both in its reparation. man fell; similarly, Mary was not the Redeemer. to sin; Mary was informed of the Incarnation and consented to it before it took place.