Characters of Paradise Lost written by john Milton are well explained here.

1. The Son Adam Eve
Of Paradise Lost

2. Trinity: Tri+Unity=Trinity
The Christian doctrine of
the
Trinity
(Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad',
from Latin: trinus
"threefold") holds that God
is one God, but three
coeternal consubstantial
persons or hypostases—the
Father,
 the Son (Jesus Christ),
Holy Spirit
“As one God in three
Divine persons".

3. The Son
The second person of the trinity equal to God
and of the same essence but a different person.
1.Presentation of the son in paradise lost
The merciful and compassionate side of God is
presented in the son.
2.Qualities of the son.
 Powerful
 Brave
 Willing to help mankind

4. Description about Son’s power
 The Son’s power is also further revealed in
(book vi) when god decides to end the
rebellion of the angels. God sends only the
son in a chariot against Satan and his
hosts. The son by himself is able to defeat
the rebellious angels and cast them into
Hell.

5. Son as the acting hand of God’s
decision
 Milton describes the son as the acting
hands of God’s decisions, when God says
that Adam and Eve will fall must suffer
death and death can be overcome if some
one in heaven will sacrifice himself to
death for man. Then son says that he will
become human and die to defeat death.
This act clearly defines the son.

6. Son as the creator of earth
 God also uses the son as the creator of the
earth and universe around it. Milton
connects the son closely to mankind by
making the son the creator of the biblical
account.
 After the fall of Adam and Eve the son
goes to earth at God’s request and passes
judgment on the serpent, Adam and Eve.

7.  Beyond telling the humans about what
their punishment will be, the Son also
pities them and clothes them in skin.
 God seems to be almost the embodiment
of ideas while the Son converts these
ideas to actions.

8. Adam
 The first human and the father of
mankind. Adam is created as a perfect-
beautiful, innocent and wise but even his
unfallan state he is eager for forbidden
knowledge and attracted by Eve’s physical
beauty. But Adam is greater than Eve in
wisdom, strength and closeness to God.

9. Description Of Adam in paradise
lost.
 Adam is physically attractive, mentally
adept, and spiritually profound.
 He stand out in Eden as the apex of the
hierarchical pyramid.
 only eve can compare to him and she only
in physical beauty.

10.  The conversation between Adam and Eve
(before book x) are models of civilized
discourse.
 These conversations are difficult to
imagine as real but they reflect the nature
of two humans.
 In each instance when Adam speaks, he
shows the proper relationship to the being
with whom he converses.

11. Adam’s superior personality
 Adam is superior to Eve and inferior to
Raphael and God.
 Always Adam shows proper respect and
relationship in graceful speech and
manners.
 Adam welcomes Raphael graciously but in
a similar tone that acknowledges the
superior standing of the angel.

12. After downfall Adam’s changing
personality
 After downfall Adam’s conversation with
Eve become querulous. He blames here
and she him.
 It takes a mea culpa speech by eve to
rekindle Adam’s love for his wife and to
reestablish their proper relationship.

13. Flaw of Uxoriousness in Adam
 If Adam has a flaw before the fall it is
uxoriousness . (This term means dotingly or
irrationally fond of or submissive to one’s
wife).
 Adam tells Raphael that Eve’s beauty affects
him so much that what she wills to do or say
seems wisest, virtuosest, discreetest and
best.
 That’s why Adams eats the fruit of the tree of
knowledge .precisely because he can’t bear to
be without eve.

14. Eve
 Eve is a simpler character than Adam. She is
created from Adam’s rib as his helpmeet. She
was the first woman and mother of mankind.
1.Representation in the paradise lost
 She is presented as beautiful, wise and able.
She is superior to Adam only in her beauty.
From the time of creation when she looks in
water and falls in love with her own reflection.

15. Flaw of vanity in Eve
 Eve is linked to the flaw of vanity and
Satan as the serpent will use this defect
against her.
 Eve is generally presented as submissive
to Adam and to some extent dependent on
him. Her reasoning powers are not
realized as his. But Eve is perfectly
capable of comprehending the abstruse
subject but she prefers hearing the ideas
from the Adam alone.