Relationship between God and Adam

July 15th, 2008

It seems perhaps that God has more concern of Adam’s following then of Eve’s temptation and sin with the apple.  Adam must struggle between the loyalty and love of two, from God and from Eve. His unity toward Eve invites his sin, but his superiority over her, and his closeness to God allows him to see Eve objectively, flawed. In Book XII, Adam is drawn to Michael’s instruction with the faith that, eventually, revelation will be brought about. This concept is very Christian, where Adam finds patience, hope, and maintaining goodness. Michael’s story to Adam brings two ideas together, of death and life, and the man is equal ineffective in either, and after the Flood, there is less fragmentation/separation and more continuity of ideas in the story.  I think all of this has to deal with Adam’s relationship to God, where Milton focuses so much on Adam in the telling of history, in the mentioning of ideas like separation versus continuity, as if the real temptation is the tempting of man, more so than of woman.


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