M.K
Bhavnagar University
Name:
Nagla Drashti P.
Roll
no: 15
Class:
M.A : Sem-1
Year:
2016-2018
Paper-1(The
Renaissance Literature)
Assignment
Topic: Temptation of Eve in Milton’s Paradise lost
E-mail
address: nagladrashti38@gmail.com
Submitted:
Smt S.B Gardy
Department
of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar
University,Bhavnagar.
Assignment
topic
Paper
no-1
- what is the meaning of temptation:
Temptation is a fundamental desire to engage in short-term urges for enjoyment,that threatens long-term goals. in the context of some religious,temptation is the inclination to sin. Temptation also describes the coaxing or inducing a person into committing such an act,by manipulation or otherwise of curiosity, desire or fear og loss.
In th context of self-control and ego depletion,temptation is described as an immediate,pleausrable urge and/or impulse that disrupts an individuals ability to wait for the long-term goals,in which that individual hopes to attain. Tamptation scene in the Milton’s paradise loss:
“Dream not of other world”,the angel Raphael warns Adam in Milton’s paradise lost(vlll.175). we see that in Milton’s paradise lost that the Eve is dreams about another world which she will achive knowledge and power,and her wish was fullfilled when eve succumbs by Satan’s temptation and she eats fruit from the tree of knowledge.After eats the fruit she feels that she is awakening from her dream and looking at the garden of Eden.Satan give Eve with a golden chance to gain knowledge and powerto become God-like.Now Eve become supirior than the Adam,she is not equal to Adam.she find out some independence from her husband.Now Eve shifting her loyalty away from God and Adam,she going with Satan on her way and find her identity in the Eden garden.To gain knowledge and Godliness and also gain independence from her unequal partner with Adam.
In book iv,Eve awakening but she don’t know that how she was come into the Eden garden.And Eve’s first thought are of “where and what [she]was,whence thither brought, and how”(paradise lost,iv451-52)and Eve now in curiosity to know her identity,and also because of that she disobey the God. At that time Eve is already distant from God because now she awakens in the its own shade and not in the God’s light throught paradise lost, Eve is identified with her own dreams now the Eve feels like “otherness” of eden, Eve is an outcast and to find meaning of her life.At the moment when she is awakening, Eve first see her reflection in the water, which she thinks is another being this watery, wavering image of Eve extends in Milton’s poem,and that moments puts Eve in a weak position, for Eve this image and reflection is only a shadow of Adam,and think about that,who is the real likeness of God.For some time Eve thinks about her existance,Eve stares of her reflection and think that would have “pined there in vain desire”(iv.466). If God had not called her away.
To eat the fruit of knowledge persistance and longing are dominant in Eve’s nature even after Eve learns the creation story of God and she has Adam for a companion,now Eve has yearn for more knowledge.Because now she wishing the place where she was secure for herself. In the garden of Eden through knowledge,Eve progressively “moves from uncertainly to security and contentment”(Langford, 120).
To know about such reality Eve shifts her loyaltyaway from the God to more concrete realities of Satan and thr tree of knowledge.possesing “attributesdifferent from Adam, God and paradise…..Eve seeks and has the potentialto find alternative worlds in her search for completeness and acceptance in a masculine environment.Her ability to experience alternative worlds is what brings disorder into paradise(Langford,119)
Full of self- purpose, Eve exploresher surroundings in order to find answer to her questions of identity.staring at her reflection in the water,Eve feels happy and secure.God ,however,tears Eve away from her dream world, her world of contentment. Eve’s brif but significant bondage to her reflection shows that she loves herself and longs to understand better,for the reflection is of herself. This,however,is not Narcissism, because Eve thinks thatthe reflection in the water is if another being, not of her.when God inteervenes in Eve’s pining over her reflection,Eve recognizes”a certain inherent futilityin her existence”(Langford,121),so she turns towards the more concrete world of Eden to seek meaning in her life. Neverthless, the world of Eden holds no satisfactory answers for Eve.God himself tempts Eve with giving her a companion whose image she is.Eve “has lost priority in her world;not only has someone preceded her but she is,in a sense,a copy of that as yet unknown other being”.(Langford,130)
Fleeing fron Adam when she first sees him, Eve flies from patriachy and ownership. By claiming that Eve is his “otherself”(x,128).Adam commends ownership over Eve and this in turn brings Eve to question her role in Eden. Is the merely a companion made to satisfy the whims of Adam, or does she serve a function-a function that is her own -in paradise?.Now Eve enjoys her life in Eden garden, Eve feels that she exists merely as an extansion of the wish -fullfilling fantasy of Adam’s dream and that she too has her own dreams that are not allowed to come into the waking world.Luring Eve to the tree of knowledge, Satan provides Eve with a means ti fullfill her desire of learning more about her identity,and to make a “fully existential use of the intellect,devoted to temporal choice in terms of everlasting concerns”(Frye,48).
Knowledge is powerful, and Eve hunger for knowledge.created “sufficient to have stood though free to fall”(paradise lost,iii.99),Adam and Eve are Gods in their realm of Eden, free to reason and to govern God’s other creations. As Eve tells the Serpent,”we live law to our-selves,our reason in our low”(ix,653-54). To wish to attain the same level of power as God, however,is to lose all. This is because the hierarchy of heaven and earth must be maintained if choas is to be repelled. Eve,with her limited knowledge of the world, is egocentric and does not know or care about the greater good-she is only concerned about satisfying her hunger for knowledge and power. Eve is naive and ignorant:she cannot grasp the meaning of death,and she believes that adam and she are”not capable of death or pain”(iv.283). Thus,almost subconsciously, Eve dismisses God’s warning that Adam and she will die should they eat from the tree of knowledge. Although perfect at birth, Eve in mutable. As the Angel Raphael states:”enough is left besides to search and know “(vii.125)and Eve is bursting with more than “enough”curiosity. Ignorance is bliss, and Eve’s blissful existance is shattered when Satan tells her about thre powerful fruits from tree of knowledge. In order to fill this vaid in her life that is no longer blissful,Eve must continue to pursue knowledge. Knowledge is food for Eve’s soul but she does not know how to contain her appetite.
- Conclusion:
At the end of this assignment we something say about the Eve’s flattery by Satan. In book no-5 Eve dreams about Satan and marvels at the latter’s boldness in tasting the forbidden fruit. Eve is flattered when Satan calls her “fair angelic Eve”, and this suggests that she is uncconsciously delighted at the possibility of becoming an angel and living in heaven. Having eaten the forbidden fruit because she wishes to become godlike and Adam’s equal, Eve does not wish to die alone or let Adam love another “Eve”she is resolved to stray further from God’s path for her and to have Adam to share in her fate:
Shall I to him make known
As yet my change,and give him to partake
Full happiness with me, or rather not,
But keep the odds of knowledge in my power.
(paradise lost,ix.817-825)
Without copartner? So to odd what wants
In female sex,the more to draw his love,
And render me more equal, and perhaps,
A thing not undesirable, sometime
Superior;for inferior who is free?
(paradise lost,ix.817-825)
In this both paragraph we can see that Eve say about the situation without his partner Adam. She explain that if she eat the fruit of knowledge and she become superior than his partner Adam, so she think that to eat this fruit by Adam both are become equal in the heaven. Because Adam loves Eve so much that’s why he eat this fruit.Now she has no fear about the death because she and her partner both are eat this fruit,and if even God give them any punishment for this kind of sin then both are accept this and go to the earth.
In this book no -9 we see that how Eve is tempted by Satan, and how she is driven by Satan to eat the forbbiden fruit of knowledge. and we can also see that how Eve is happy to see her reflection in the water, and to know about herself.
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