Eve's Misogyny

Milton’s Paradise Lost presents Eve as a very human-like character. Sure, she ate the apple that brought sin into the world, but as humans we make mistakes every single day. This parallel between godly Eve and us regular humans indicates that we all are imperfect beings who make mistakes often and the outcomes of our mistakes are larger than we can imagine sometimes. Even with this imperfect nature found in Eve and the wrongful misogyny found in the garden of Eden, many readers see Eve as the heroine of Paradise Lost. These readers view Eve as a traditional literary heroine who is courageous for being selflessly compliant in wanting to take all the blame for eating the forbidden apple. However, this position is flawed because Eve is not courageous for making Adam’s sin of eating the apple become her own sin. This is not an act of heroism, but her reacting to the oppressive world she is in. Her inferiority to Adam mostly due to the awkward …show more content…
The greatly distant familial ties between Eve and Jesus and me and my presidential grandson indicate that the successes of Jesus and of my great-great-grandson are indirect. By indirect, I mean that their achievements are not a direct outcome of who they are related to. These outcomes have nothing to do with genetics and have very small possibilities of occurring. This small probability of someone’s great-great-great-grandson becoming president or giving birth to Jesus causes us to quickly associate all familial ties to that president or to Jesus as responsible for that president and Jesus’s success. By quickly associating the successes of one family member to that of another family member makes it seem that there is an intentional and a direct correlation between them. The successes of your ancestors are for the most part independent of your own