Man and Nature after the Fall in John Miltons Paradise Lost Essay

Man and Nature after the Fall in paradise scattered In nirvana Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and nature can best be discussed when we look at Miltons pre-fall descriptions of promised land and its inhabitants. Believing that move humans could neer fully understand what life was like in Eden and the relationships stringently innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of Paradise and fling and evening through the fallen eyes of Satan So little knows Any, but deity alone, to nurse right The good before him, but perverts best things To worse abuse, or to thir meanest use. Beneath him with new wonder now he views To all gratify of human sense exposd In narrow room Natures whole wealth, yeah more, A Heaven on Earth for blissful Paradise Of God the Garden was, by him in the East Of Eden planted... (IV, 201-210) Milton presents a symbolic landscape, a garden that certainly was created by a divine power. Eden is fertile, andAll Trees of noblest kind for sight, smell taste (IV, 217) grow in copiousness blooming with fruit. There are, mountains, hills, groves, a river, and other earthly delights. Adam and Eve live in this paradise and their job is to tend to the garden They sit them down, and after no more toil/ Of thir sweet Gardning labor and then sufficd (IV, 27-28). Although Eden works harmoniously with Adam and Eve, allowing them to partake of its abundance, it also lives and thrives on its own. Eden has a mind and is a living being, it is excessive and indeed dangerous because it has the potential to choke itself, to smother everything in its path. When Milton first describes Adam and Eve, they are one with the Garden... ...strust and breach Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt, And disobedience on the part of Heavn Now alienated, distance and distaste... (PL. IX, 1-9) Works Cited and Consulted Elledge, Scott, ed. Paradise Lost An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. New York Norton, 1975. Fox, Robert C. The Allegory of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost. Modern Language Quarterly 24 (1963) 354-64. Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Rpt. New York Oxford UP, 1979. Milton, throne. Paradise Lost. In John Milton Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. capital of Indiana 1980. OKeeffe, Timothy J. An Analogue to Miltons Sin and More on the Tradition. Milton Quarterly 5 (1971) 74-77. Patrick, John M. Milton, Phineas Fletcher, Spenser, and Ovid--Sin at Hells Gates. Notes and Queries Sept. 1956 384-86.