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Discuss Milton's Unholy Trinity of Satan, Sin, and Eve in Paradise Lost
Discuss Milton's Unholy Trinity of Satan, Sin, and Eve in Paradise Lost
Disobedience
satan: desire for power
eve: desire for knowledge
both: desire for independence
seduction
satan seductive to eve
eve seductive to adam
this tree is not as we are told/ a tree of danger tasted nor evil unknown/ Op'ning the way but of divine effect/ To open the eyes and make them gods who taste (9:863-866)
that in the day
Ye eat thereof, your eyes that seem so clear,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both good and evil, as they know.
That ye shall be as Gods,
satan to eve
eve's decision based on faith in satan
physical evidence
satan said he ate from the tree and was fine, so she trusted her eyes and herself instead of the word of god
Look on me. Do no believe.
feminist implications
Who can in reason then, or right, assume
Monarchy over such as live by right
His equals, if in power and splendor less,
In freedom equal?
Eve: so to add what wants
In female sex, the more to draw his love,
And render me more equal;
reason for fall, wants to be as gods
Fall
satan: literally turns into serpent
eve: 'out of my sight, thou serpent'
compare Sin and Eve
childbirth
only 2 women in the poem, clearly linking women to satan/evil
Sin-serpentine like satan and eve
eve-comes from adam's rib, sin comes from satan's brain
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou
My being gav'st me; whom should I obey
But thee? whom follow? sin to satan. But now lead on;
In me is no delay; with thee to go,
Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
Art all things under Heaven, eve to adam
Both Eve and Satan felt a discrepancy between their positions and their aspirations, both exercised autonomy to improve their standing