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Paradise Lost - Marriage Before and After the Fall


2013, ll. 498-502). Their marriage has the most pure of love, at least completely on Eve's part, and that is great because it leads to good things such as understanding and respecting one another, which Adam and Eve do. Another positive aspect in their marriage is that Adam enjoys making Eve happy and he puts her on a higher level when it comes to reason and good-doings. "Her own, that what she wills to do or say,/ Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;/ All higher knowledge in her presence falls/ Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her/ Looses discount'nancet , and like folly shewes;/ Authority and Reason on her wait,/ As one intended first, not after made" (p. 2089, ll. 549-55). Even after Eve dreams about eating from the tree he reassures her that she is good and the dream does not make her bad. "Best Image of myself and dearer half,/ The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep/ Affects me equally; nor can I like/ This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear;/ Yet evil whence? in thee can harbour none,/ Created pure" (p. 2026, ll. 95-100).
             Some of the negative aspects in their marriage is how Eve constantly mentions and reminds herself that she is less than Adam and must do everything he says. Adam also seems to have more of a sexual or lustful love towards Eve, as Raphael advises him to love with his heart so his love is pure and not sexual like that of animals. In the following verses, Eve says that her place with Adam is below him, not necessarily as an equal. "My author and disposer, what though bidd'st/ Unargues I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, though mine: to know no more/ Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (p. 2016, ll. 635-39). Although they love each other, believing that the man is greater would lead to him thinking he is her owner, creating abuse. "Too much ornament, in outward show/ Elaborate, of inward less exact.


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