FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Raphael
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Eve
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Adam
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The Son
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Detailed explanation-1: -Curious to know which tree holds this fruit, Eve follows Satan until he brings her to the Tree of Knowledge. She recoils, telling him that God has forbidden them to eat from this tree, but Satan persists, arguing that God actually wants them to eat from the tree.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Book 9 of Paradise Lost, when Satan is convincing Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge he appeals to her vanity, first praising her beauty then persuading her to eat the fruit. What misogynistic undertones are at play here?
Detailed explanation-3: -When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Along with Satan, Eve is the most important character in Paradise Lost; it is her idea to separate from Adam (in Book 9), and she is the one who first eats the Forbidden Fruit and then convinces Adam to eat it.
Detailed explanation-5: -Serpent tells her that it was the effect of eating the fruit of that tree of knowledge. Eve, after tempted fully eats the fruit of that forbidden tree. Later she tempted Adam to eat that fruit. Both transgressed the will of God and thus they lost Heaven.