Man and Nature after the Fall in John Miltons Paradise Lost Essay

Man and disposition after the Fall in promised land Lost In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and temperament can best be discussed when we look at Miltons pre-fall descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. believe that fallen humans could never fully understand what life was similar in Eden and the relationships purely innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of Paradise and fling and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan So forgetful k immediatelys Any, hardly God alone, to value right The good before him, but perverts best things To worse abuse, or to thir meanest use. Beneath him with new wonder now he views To all delight of human sense exposd In reduce room Natures whole wealth, yea more, A Heaven on state for blissful Paradise Of God the Garden was, by him in the eastern hemisphere Of Eden planted... (IV, 201-210) Milton presents a symbolic landscape, a garden that certainly was created by a divine powe r. Eden is fertile, andAll Trees of noblest kind for sight, smell predilection (IV, 217) grow in abundance blooming with fruit. There are, mountains, hills, groves, a river, and another(prenominal) earthly delights. disco biscuit and Eve live in this paradise and their stemma is to tend to the garden They sat them down, and after no more fag out/ Of thir sweet Gardning labor then sufficd (IV, 27-28). Although Eden works harmoniously with Adam and Eve, allowing them to partake of its abundance, it also lives and thrives on its own. Eden has a mind and is a living being, it is excessive and therefore dangerous because it has the potential to choke itself, to stretch out everything in its path. When Milton first describes Adam and Eve, they are one with the Garden... ...strust and breach unpatriotic on the part of Man, revolt, And disobedience on the part of Heavn Now alienated, outstrip and distaste... (PL. IX, 1-9) Works Cited and Consulted Elledge, Scott, ed. Paradise Lost An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. New York Norton, 1975. Fox, Robert C. The Allegory of underworld and Death in Paradise Lost. Modern Language Quarterly 24 (1963) 354-64. Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Rpt. New York Oxford UP, 1979. Milton, hindquarters. Paradise Lost. In John Milton Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. Indianapolis 1980. OKeeffe, Timothy J. An Analogue to Miltons Sin and More on the Tradition. Milton Quarterly 5 (1971) 74-77. Patrick, John M. Milton, Phineas Fletcher, Spenser, and Ovid--Sin at Hells Gates. Notes and Queries Sept. 1956 384-86.