The document discusses gender discrimination in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. It summarizes that initially Adam and Eve saw themselves as equal, but after eating the forbidden fruit, they realized they were different genders. While Milton portrayed Eve as being responsible for original sin, the document argues he did not intend to discriminate based on sex and showed men and women as equal in knowledge and ability. It analyses how gender roles evolved in the story from equality to distinction.

1. Gender Discrimination
• Name : Jitendra V. Sumra
• Roll No. : 16
• Semester : 03
• Year : 2012-13
• Paper No. : 101
• Paper Name : The Renaissance Literature
• Year : 2012-13
Department Of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji University Bhavnagar

2. Introduction
• Adam is induced with sensitively of his reason and
made chief of all God’s work. Perceiving that all other
inhabitants in Eden are created in pairs.
• Adam asked god for a human companion ‘fit to
participate all rational delight. Therefore, from Adam's
rib and in Adam's image god creates even manlike, but
different sex’.

3. • ‘Eve is designed to shoe “Truth, wisdom sanctitused
sever and first catches sight of this pair, Satan explains.
• “Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, godlike
erect, with native honorocial in naked majesty seemed
lords of all, and worthy seemed, for in their books
define.
• The image of their glorious Maker Shone”.

4. Content
• General discrimination in The Paradise Lost refers to neither angels
nor human being like Adam and Eve. There can be a strong
evidence to say that the paradise lost to gives birth to feministic
consideration.
• What happens in The Paradise Lost is that Adam and Eve were not
different from one another. They used to consider themselves
equally neither man nor human being. But as soon as epic riches at
the climax of the story Satan makes him realized that they were
human being. So cannot be it a gender discrimination that god and
his followers are angels.

5. • It can be strong historical evidence that Milton was a blind epic writer but
his daughter helped him to write epic it also implied that a man needs a
woman to create a knowledge. In knowledge anyone is equal to each other.
Knowledge serves man and women equally. So it is a combined effort to
give a literary appeal to such a great epic, but here Milton defines the role
of man and woman like Adam and eve. Whatever task Adam assigns to his
companion, eve has to follow. Here, it is a mid-time where, Adam and Eve
realized that they are human being, and especially man and women. It is
because of apple of knowledge that Eve eats. So on the one side of coin
Milton creates knowledge and his daughter writes the knowledge.

6. • It was her reflection in water that she was a woman not an anger. It
was her beauty that for the first time, she can concentrate on. She
realized her womanly biological perfection and Differs from her
companion Adam. As per gender existence.
• God father and other angels are to know it was a woman
responsible for the existence of human world because of gender
discrimination. Eve unintentionally brings a strong polar between
world of paradise and the world of human being. So it becomes
distance between two worlds.

7. • To realize what the self is verse than to be innocent. Eve
was better before knowing herself, and feministic
perspective believes that knowing about genders is worse
than physical existence.
• We must figure out the main reason why women as a sex
and gender in The Paradise Lost appraised properly in
contrast to the traditional views of woman as infirmary
where as felinity and feminine principles are despised and
shown in an inferior position.

8. • The first man of the earth were Titans, and Eve was their mother
from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus
the first woman’s breast that have with life on this would yield the
daring which could contend with omnipotence.
• Oven evidence shows that Milton does not discriminates on grand
of sex. E are so accustomed to various criticism of paradise lost
from the view point of “a phallogo centric structure polarity of male
and female.

9. • In The Paradise Lost it looks as if Eve, the first female in the
world, plays a destructive role which plunges all human being latent
in Adam, into the abyss of sin, Even broke to God’s commands not
to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge. They breaking of this
command leads Adam to eat the same fruit and complete
mankind’s total descent into sin.
• The puritan idea of mankind completely changed into friendship
Amity between two noble personalities.

10. • It may safely be said that what the puritan's contributed to
the history of mankind is not so much a justification for
executing king’s nation as the social acceptance of
regarding women as human beings of equal value to men.
• First of all, the binary distinctions between Adam and Eve
are write large the moment the come into being while
Adam feels the first comes to the world, Eve awakes to find
herself reposing under a shade on flowers.

11. • The Forman’s birth is marked by light, the other’s nativity is
associated with darkness. Apparently such a difference
suggests that “Adam is to Eve as strong ‘male’ light of the
sun to shade ‘female’ that everything partaking of lesson
light is equivalent to being away from god.
• On the contrary derived from Adam as his copy, Eve is the
“copy of the copy” that loses most of the essential traits of
the almighty author.