"Paradise Lost, Book IX and Blickling Homily, Easter Day"
In reading Book IX and the fall of Adam and Eve, I once again see Milton's portrayal of women as the weaker sex. After a few compliments, Eve allows the serpent to win her over. She portrays to me that she cares more about superficial things such as beauty than profound things like God's grace. Instead of attempting to repent and take full responsibility for her actions, she goes to Adam to bring him down with her. Eve wants Adam to share her suffering, thus becoming an immoral and harmful being.
Adam and Eve's fall brought death upon us, and as explained in Easter Day, it was Jesus's suffering and death that saved us. Those of us who choose to follow God's way shall live eternally with God after death. However, those you choose a path of evil shall suffer eternally in Hell.
The disobedience of Adam and Eve may have brought an evil to mankind, but because of the Son's sacrifice, we still have the chance to receive everlasting life.
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This is right on the edge of close reading.
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