Eve's Beauty In Paradise Lost Analysis

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The famous poet, John Milton, has created this attitude that is most common among the seventeenth century time, which is portraying the image of Eve’s beauty in Paradise Lost. This is a story among poems, that narrates through the adventure that is of legendary figures in history period. The history of Adam and Eve’s falling from paradise is simply a true creation. Eve is described as the aesthetically weak individual, unlike Adam who is often compared with God on a whole different level. This idea of women being of lesser quality than men has gone on for far too many years, which makes Milton’s characterizations of Eve surprisingly expected of her. However, on the other hand, Milton shows women’s inner side to their own strengths, all while …show more content…

All Eve really wants is to feel equal to Adam, so that he could love her for more than just her beauty. “Shall I to him make known as yet my change, and give him to partake full happiness with me, or rather not, but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without copartner? So to add what wants in female sex, the more to draw his love, and render me more equal, and perhaps, a thing not undesirable, sometime superior; for inferior who is free?” (9.817-825). Milton’s portrayal of Eve is extensively during this period. He is influenced by the culture around him giving him his own kind of attitude towards Eve’s side. He suggests that Eve chose to sin for her own selfish reasons. As I see it, Adam is the one that expects Eve to be the beauty and to follow him through his guidance and nothing more, but Eve does not want that, she wants to be of equal authority to Adam. Unfortunately, in the story with the fruit from the forbidden tree, she stops herself from eating the fruit by using her powers for her own gain. She sees that by eating the fruit that she may die, leaving him alone to move on with someone else, Eve loves Adam and does not want to leave him behind. This story brings Eve to life in so many ways that divine perspectives of others views to this day. We can see how Milton’s influences were persuaded on Eve’s portrayal of

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