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Post-Lapserian Changes in Man in Paradise Lost
Post-lapserian Changes in Man
In Milton’s Paradise Lost, the fall of man is brought about by the Satan’s temptation of Eve. Satan entices Eve to eat from the one tree that God had banned:
He ended, and his words replete with guile
Into her heart too easy entrance won.
Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to behold
Might tempt alone, and in her ears the sound
Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned
With reason, to her seeming, and with truth;
(Milton, 826).
After Eve eats the forbidden fruit, Adam cannot bear the thought of life without her and, thus, eats the fruit as well. Immediately things around them as well as emotions within them begin to change. Milton wrote, “As with new wine intoxicated both” (Milton, 832), meaning that they felt oddly, almost as if they were drunk, after eating the fruit.
It seems that the factor that contributed most to the fall of man was free will. Patel says, ...
Post-lapserian Changes in Man
In Milton’s Paradise Lost, the fall of man is brought about by the Satan’s temptation of Eve. Satan entices Eve to eat from the one tree that God had banned:
He ended, and his words replete with guile
Into her heart too easy entrance won.
Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to behold
Might tempt alone, and in her ears the sound
Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned
With reason, to her seeming, and with truth;
(Milton, 826).
After Eve eats the forbidden fruit, Adam cannot bear the thought of life without her and, thus, eats the fruit as well. Immediately things around them as well as emotions within them begin to change. Milton wrote, “As with new wine intoxicated both” (Milton, 832), meaning that they felt oddly, almost as if they were drunk, after eating the fruit.
It seems that the factor that contributed most to the fall of man was free will. Patel says, ...
Posted by: Amy Hetzel
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