for his sake, and decides to go on with the war against God.
Adam and Eve are allowed by God to live in Paradise, in the
Garden o f Eden, as long as do not eat the apples that grow on the
Tree o f the Know ledge o f good and evil. Satan, who has been
driven from the Garden o f Eden by the guardian angels, returns at
night in the form o f a serpent. Next morning, the serpent persuades
Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree o f Knowledge and to
take another one for Adam. Eve tells Adam what she has done.
Adam ’s reply is described in the follow ing way:
Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length
First to h im self he inward silence broke:
O, fairest o f Creation, last and best
O f all G od’s works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, amiable or sweet!
How art thou lost!.........................................
................................ Some cursed fraud
O f enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die.
How can I live without thee? How forgo.
Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?”
So Adam d ecid es to eat the fruit for love o f Evve. A s a
punishment, God banishes Adam and Eve to the newly created
world, where they have to face a life o f toil and woe. The angel
Michael shows Adam a vision o f the tyranny and lawlessness
which are to befall mankind.
M ilton’s sympathies lie with Adam and Eve, and this shows
his faith in man. His Adam and Eve are full o f energy. They love
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