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Paradise Lost
Title: Paradise Lost
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 915 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Paradise Lost
In John Milton's epic poem “Paradise Lost”, the issue of who is to blame for the fall of man is one that is widely discussed and argued. Since Eve is the one who acts on her own to eat from the Tree of Knowledge as she says “To satisfy the sharp desire I had / Of tasting those faire apples, I resolved / Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once”(538-541), she is usually thought to be …showed first 75 words of 915 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 915 total…less prepared, /The willinger I go, nor much expect / A foe so proud will first the weaker seek; / So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse”(330-337). After the deed is done, they fall into a terrible argument of who is to blame, but the reality is that the two of them are equally at fault for the fall of man, because either could have prevented it if they had obeyed the will of God.
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