Milton clearly cast Adam and Eve into typical roles. He mentions a few times that he would tell Eve to do somthing and she listens to him and follows his orders. Another time Raphael comes to visit and discusses how the earth was created and sends Eve into another room.
The warning that Raphael gives Adam about Eve being evil puts doubt into his head about her, if he was warned why let her go about her chores on her own. I thought that Milton was contradicting his own writing, everything was being put forth infront of us, if Adam would have continued in his machismo role, she would not have agreed for her to go on her own.
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How unfortunate that you are spreading such nonsense. Your commentary shows an extreme lack of context and knowledge about John Milton, the entirety of Paradise Lost, and the purpose of said work.
Your deconstruction lacks support (for which there is little, if any) and is shoddy at best. It is as if you glanced at the pages, picked out some key words, took your already false view (that Milton was a misogynist) and stuffed the passages into it.
Most of all, you are forgetting two extremely important facts:
1) you are reading PL through a 21st-century lens. Common views about woman/man relationships in the 17th century were nothing like today. You can't apply the same rubric!
2) Additionally, Milton didn't make most of this up. His basis for Adam and Eve's relationship was based on the Hebraic-Christian Scriptures, and can be found in the books of Genesis and Romans, if you'd care to examine.
You should be ashamed of yourself for taking such a disinterest in your studies that you would fabricate such nonsense for a grade. Education is not a right, and you are insulting anyone and everyone who treats it like the privilege that it is.
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