Eve’s Speech to the Forbidden Tree in Milton’s Paradise Lost

evenings linguistic communication to the Forbidden Tree in Miltons enlightenment LostIn Book IX of Miltons Paradise Lost, Eve brands a actually important and revealing legal transfer to the channelise of knowledge. In it, she demonstrates the effect that the nix fruit has had on her. Eves terminology becomes as pitch-dark as the nakedness that Adam and Eve would later try to acme up with fig leaves. After eating the forbidden apple, Eves speech is riddled with blasphemy, self-exaltation, and egocentrism.The first part of Eves speech contains the most blatant blasphemy. In it, she turns the forbidden shoetree into an idol, or a false god. She promises that henceforth her early care, / Not without song severally morning, and ascribable praise / Shall tend the tree (ln 799-801). The long sounds of the spondees in not without song each morning, and due praise add to the deliberateness of Eves blasphemy. The tree replaces God in her eyes, and begins to receive the prais e that she had formerly reserved further for God. Besides being blasphemous, this is also ironic. In her foolishness, Eve ends up laudatory the very thing that will ultimately prove to be her undoing.Eve considers the tree a expectant gift. However, because of the influence of the serpent, she does not consider it a gift from God. The serpent has caused her to believe that God did not give the tree to Adam and Eve because it was not his to give. Therefore, Eve supposes that God must admire what he cannot give / For had the gift been his, it had not here / Thus grown (ln 805-7). In other words, she argues that if God had had possession of this tree, he would not arrest go away it where it is. Therefore, according to Eves manipulated reasoning, God must not have the knowledge that the tree bestow... ...d Adam in line 831.The last cardinal lines of this speech are very dramatic. Eve has such a great love for Adam that she could endure anything as long as he would be by h er side, but she would be nothing without him. However, this creates a paradox. whiz may ask, if Eve loves Adam as much as she professes to, thence why put his life in jeopardy just to make her own suffering more bearable? The answer, of course, goes back to the selfishness that has pervaded her entire speech. These lines support out because of the spondees at the end of both of them.Eves language is drastically altered when she partakes of the forbidden fruit. It becomes permeated with blasphemy, self-praise and selfish words.Works CitedMilton, John. Paradise Lost. in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, M. H. Abrams, ed. New York W. W. Norton and Company, 1993. 1594-5.