orning when Adam and Eve prepared to do their work in the garden Eve wanted to go work by herself. At first Adam disapproved because of the danger of Satin, but eventually she convinced him to let he go off on her own. Shortly after they separated Satin found Eve alone and took advantage of the situation. Satin went and spoke to Eve in the form of the serpent. He convinced her that he had gained the ability to think and to speak from eating the forbidden fruit. After a lengthy conversation Satin convinced Eve to eat the fruit. Milton makes the first sin committed sound quite beautiful in Book IX lines 781-784 “Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:/ Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat/ Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.” The first thing that Eve decided to do after she had eaten the fruit was find Adam and convince him to eat it too so that they would be even. He knew what eating the fruit would do, but he loved Eve and could not imagine living with out her so he decided to eat it also. After they have both fallen they went to sleep. When they woke up they began blaming each other for the fall.In book X God sent Christ to the garden to pass judgment on the couple. Adam immediately blamed Eve and Eve in turn blamed the serpent. Christ cursed the serpent to slither on its belly for causing Eve to sin. Then he cursed Eve and all women who would come after her to painful childbirth and submission to man. Adam and all men after him were cursed to have to labor for food. After he did this he returned to heaven.When Satin returned to Hell he first encountered Sin and Death who were building a bridge to earth to make it easier for them to corrupt it’s inhabitance. Next he gave a speech to the rest of the fallen angels. When he was done he expected to here cheering, but instead there was “A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn”(Bo...
