Whilst Eve will ‘re-pair’ with Adam and God in the felix culpa, the Duchess is destroyed - arguably there can be no complete tragedy within a Christian divine framework, where God’s unconditional love transcends temporal drama, but in the Jacobean tragedy the Duchess’s downfall is total and terrible, even as she faces it with the ‘courageous stoicism’ of a female heroine. However, by dramatising Eve and Adam by giving them a voice and developing them as individuals, Milton opens up the possibility of the felix culpa in which love, both God’s unconditional love and, in turn, Adam and Eve’s love for each other, transcends tragedy