Man and Nature After the Fall

With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd

To sit indulgent and with him partake

Rural repast permitting him the while

Venial discourse unblam'd: I now must change

Those Notes to Tragic; foul distrust and breach

Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt,

And disobedience: on the part of Heav'n

Now alienated, distance and distaste... (PL. IX, 1-9)

In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and nature can best be discussed

when we look at Milton's pre-fall descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. Believing that fallen humans could never fully

understand what life was like in Eden and the relationships purely innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of

Paradise and Adam and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan:

Any, but God alone, to value 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 delight of human sense expos'd

In narrow room Nature's whole wealth, yea more,

A Heaven on Earth: for blissful Parad

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Approximate Word count = 1770
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)