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Treatment of Eve in Paradise Lost Essay -- John Milton

is cunning to mislead her:He ended, and his words replete with guileInto her heart too easy entrance won.Fixed on the fruit  she gazed, which to beholdMight tempt alone, and in her ears the soundYet rung of his persuasive words, impregnedWith reason, to her seeming, and with truth,(Paradise Lost, 733-739).In the poem we get the picture that Adam is lamenting for the mistake they have done and specially blames and insults Eve's female nature and wonders why do god ever created her. She begs his forgiveness, and pleads with him not to leave her. She reminds him that the snake tricked her, but she fully accepts the blame for sinning against both God and him. She argues that unity and love c...