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Name : Gauswami
Surbhi A.
Assignment
Topic : “Of Man’s First
disobedience
in paradise lost”
Roll
No. : 32
Submitted
To : Dr. Dilip Barad
MKBU
Bhavnagar
University.
Batch
Year : 2016-18
“of
Man’s First disobedience in Paradise lost”
Paradise
lost is an epic poem in blank verse, by the 17th
century poet John Milton (1608-1674) . The First version published in
1667, A second edition Followed in 1674 arranged into twelve books
it is considered by critics to be Milton’s major work, and it bet
helped
solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poet of his
time.
The
poem concerns Biblical story of the “Fall of Man” The temptation
of Adam
and Eve by the fallen Angel Satan and their expulsion from the
garden Eden. It has twelve book
but here we mainly concerns
with book no. 9 and In this particular book the major theme
is “of man’s first
disobedience.
Satan
in the form of the serpent searches for the couple. He is delighted
to fund eve alone. and very cleverly he gets her attention and be has
flattering her beauty. Eve so beautiful that Satan
loses his all the sense and stand before her as a foolish. he even
forgets to his vision, that
why he come at the eden garden.
Every
writer has their own unique style in portraying the beauty of women
some praises her physical beauty, while some describes the effect
of beauty on other people and in this way they admire the beauty of
woman. in paradise lost we find the effect of beauty of Eve on Satan.
Eve is so beautiful that writer admire her beauty by saying that,
“ Fairest
of creation, last and best of God's work”
Satan
becomes delight to find Eve alone. Here we can read a feminist
approach that 17th century is the male dominant society.
And Milton choses Eve instead of of Adam for disobeying God first.
Because female is easily convinced by praising their beauty or by
offering some gifts, rather than man. And Satan takes advantage of
it. And begins flattering her beauty, grace and godliness.
Eve
us amazed to see a creature of the Garden speak. Satan tells her in
enticing language that he gained the gift of speech and intellect
by eating the fruit of one of the tree in the garden. He flatters Eve
by saying that eating the apple also made him seek her out in order
to worship her beauty.
From
the time of
her creation when she looks into water
and falls
in love with her own reflection and Satan as the serpent will use
this defect against her.
Eve
is amazed by the power of the fruit. She curious to know which tree
holds this fruit Eve follows Satan
until he brings
her to the tree of knowledge
she recoils, telling him that this
is the forbidden tree but Satan
arguing that god actually God
wants them to eat from the tree. Satan
says that God forbids it only because he wants them to show their
independence.
Eve
is non seriously
tempted. the flattery has made her desire to know more. She reasons
that God claimed that eating foam this tree meant death, but then
serpent
ate, and not only does he still live, but can speed and think. God
would have no reason
to forbid the fruit unless it were powerful. Eve thinks and seeing it
right before her eyes makes all of the warnings seem exaggerated. She
reached for an apple plucks it from the tree and take a bite. the
earth feels wounded and nature sigh in woe.
for with this act human kind has fallen. This is the man’s first
disobedience.
The
first words of paradise lost state that the poem’s main theme will
be Man’s first disobedience.’’ using this idea of obedience
Milton forms the basis of his poem presenting two moral paths that
one can take after disobedience the down ward spiral of increasing
sin and degradation represented by Satan
or the road to redemption, represented by Adam
and Eve. throughout the poem Milton shows the obedience and
disobedience by using various characters in his epic.
If we considered entire book of paradise lost, Then in book 1 we first learn of Satan’s disobedience to goes his subsequent fall from grace and banishment to hell. this is the man’s first disobedience”.
If we considered entire book of paradise lost, Then in book 1 we first learn of Satan’s disobedience to goes his subsequent fall from grace and banishment to hell. this is the man’s first disobedience”.
But
here we mainly focus on book no. 9 in which we get the idea about
Adam and eve and learn of God’s command they cannot eat the fruit
from the tree of knowledge under penalty of death. This provides a
means by which man can either obey or disobey the will of god. Also
just as Adam and Eve must obey God, Eve feels that she must obey Adam
as she was created from his rib and therefore is subject to his will.
of
Man’s first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree,
whose mortal test brought death into the world and all our woe.
Eve
was tempted by the serpent which flattered her into tasting the fruit
of the tree of knowledge. Eve gave the fruit to Adam.
Who was at first horrified but who in his love for eve also ate the
fruit. just after eating the forbidden fruit the couple know lust
for the first time.
Christ
sentenced the serpent to be forever a hated enemy of mankind. He also
announced punishment
of Eve, her sorrow would be multiplied by the bearing of children
and that she would be the servant of Adam
to the end of time. here we can find a feminist reading that because
o this disobedience women are still treat as a slave to Man, in
patriarchal society. Christ said that Adam
would eat bread only by toiling and sweating.
This was the curse to man. But more important he lost God’s grace.
As Christ
announced the punishment Death and sin left the gates of hell to join
their father Satan
on earth.
God
made great changes on earth. He replaced the eternal spring with the
changing seasons; he created the violence and misery of storms, wind
hail ice, floods and earthquakes he sentenced Adam and Eve to
expulsion from Eden.
Metaphorically
they fell from the original bliss of god’s grace to the present
state of mortality . Man is noble by nature but he has free will and
hence free to choose and capable of action. morally good or bad for
which he alone is responsible.
The
paradise in which Adam and Eve lived before eating the forbidden
fruits was like a prison. It might have satisfied God, but it would
have kept man spiritually undeveloped. So long as knowledge was
withheld from man his obedience to god was meaningless.
What
man lost by disobedience was only a state of innocence and ignorance.
But now they are capable to find the paradise within himself. This
could not be possible by paying homage to god in a state of ignorance
in Eden’s paradise. Eve sins through weakness of reason where as
Adam through weakness of will.
The
fable or story of the epic is taken from the bible
it is the simple and common
story of the fall of Adam and Eve from the grace of God due to their
disobedience if him. while Milton exaggerates the story by adding his
imagination.
Milton
begins paradise lost by saying that he will sing of Man’s first
Disobedience so that can “assert eternal providence and Justify
the ways of God paradise lost is recreation and has three parts:
- disobedience
- Eternal providence
- Justification of God to Men
God,
being God was by definition superior to every other thing in the
universe and should always be obeyed
in paradise lost god places one prohibition on Adam and Eve not to
eat from the tree of knowledge. The prohibition to not so much a
matter of the fruit of the tree as it is obeying God’s ordinance.
The proper running of the universe requires the obedience of
inferiors to their superiors. By not obeying God’s grace, Adam and
Eve bring calamity into their lives and the lives of all mankind.
When
Eve eats the fruit one of her first thoughts is that the “Fruit may
render me more equal” to which she quickly adds “for inferior who
is free?” By disobeying God, Eve has instead lost paradise and
brought sin and death into her world.
Finally
Milton shows example after example of people who ignore the
responsibilities they have and try
to either raise themselves above God or disobey God’s Commands. The
result is always the same destruction.
Citations
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http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper/101828.html
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www.bachelorandmaster.com>paradiselost
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