Contrasting Milton with Genesis

My purpose in this essay is to show that Milton’s Eve differs from that of Genesis. In Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam describes Eve as being complete, compared to that of Genesis where man and women are described as being whole only when together. A second difference found in Milton’s book is the love Adam expresses toward Eve. The third and final difference in Milton’s Eve is found in her preference to Adam. The preceding points will be examined in this paper.
In order to support my argument about Milton’s Eve, I shall first point out the idea of Adam’s perception of Eve in Milton’s book. In Paradise Lost Adam describes his wife in precise detail, as well as his feelings for her. A novel point he makes in his perception of his wife is the fact that she seems complete without him. “Yet when I approach her loveliness, so absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own,”(P.L.8 p232 l.546-549). He is saying that unlike himself who has kn...