Paradise Lost: Eve's Temptation

In Paradise Lost Milton depicts Eve as a weaker being he shows how Eve was tempted by Satan. Milton shows Eve as a weaker being, but also a jealous being because after Eve ate from the tree of knowledge she first thought that she wanted to keep the fruit to herself, but she then realized if she kept this to herself God will find out and banish her from the garden and make a new wife for Adam. As much as she wanted to keep this from Adam knowing how upset he would be she ran to him and told him to eat it too so they would be in it together. Before Eve ran to Adam, Adam was making a flowered crown like thing and when she told him what she did he dropped it from his hand. This is kind of Milton’s way of saying Adam- man had Eve –woman up on a peddle stool in his head she was perfect, but once she did all of that she became imperfect in his eyes. When they met God as a punishment woman must be submissive to their husbands and I think woman are shown as the weaker being because of Eve’s temptation because she was tempted and she fell for it she became weak and because of her fall women were shown as being weak. Woman are suppose to be seen as the vulnerable ones and the ones that couldn’t handle anything and the one’s that need to be protected that may be true, but women are also very brave and can defend for themselves.