FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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A toad
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A serpent
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A lion
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A tiger
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Detailed explanation-1: -Satan, in serpent’s form, approaches Eve and, using clever but fallacious arguments, convinces her to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. After Eve eats, she reveals what she has done to Adam, who, unable to bear the thought of losing Eve, eats also.
Detailed explanation-2: -The knowledge the Tree gives is not inherently sinful, but disobeying God by eating of the Tree is sinful. The fruit that Eve and Adam eat then becomes the ultimate symbol – a single small thing that represents the cause of all the evil and suffering in the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -He says he worships her beauty. The reader recalls that Eve narcissistically became enamored of her own image in the water at her creation. She is vain, but she is also secondary to Adam. Here a talking snake praises her beauty and says he worships her.
Detailed explanation-4: -1 of or relating to an underworld of the dead. 2 deserving hell or befitting its occupants; diabolic; fiendish. 3 Informal irritating; confounded.
Detailed explanation-5: -The fallen angels that will be discussed in the following passages are Satan, Beelzebub, Moloch, Chemos, Baal, Astarte, Thammuz, Dagon, Rimmon, Osiris, Isis and Belial. Satan is known in every culture; he is even worshiped by people through his followers.