Paradise Lost by John Milton :: sin, death

     The family reunion that takes situation with Satan, netherworld and Death foreshadows the f every of man. overstep and Death are per give-and-takeifications against miserable heavenly laws narcissism, incest and lust. Satan becomes enamored by his own creation be driveway he sees himself in her photograph "...who full oft/Thyself in me thy perfect image" ll. 763-764. However, he goes on to commit two other sins as he lusts and goes off "in secret" with his own daughter. Sin, in turn, gives birth so fearsomely, she describes it as such, "breaking violent way/Tore through my viscera". The sins within the family are further compounded by Death who rapes his mother. Sin in turn give birth to howling dogs that forever cause her pain.     Miltons allegorical representation here works with the rest of the poesy because it is the virtually poignant example of Miltons misogynic attitude. His attitude towards women i s sprawled though out the poem as depicts Eve, thus there is a parallel between Sin and Eve. Milton represents both of them as inherently evil. Aside from the fact that Sin was created from Satans twisted thoughts, she commits no offenses against Gods laws. For example, Sin gave in to her fathers sexual advances and ran in fear from her sons. unrivaled can arguably say that she, as Satans daughter acted "appropriately" humble to her fathers command. To add, she feared the vileness of her sons advances. Milton gives ample indication of Sins unwillingness to have sex with her son when he says, " I fled, but he pursuedand swifter far,/Me overtook his mother all dismayed,/And in embraces forcible and foul" (ll. 790-793). Yet, the punishments for these vile sexual encounters are suffered entirely by Sin. The latter advance being so vile that she suffers it forever and a day as she experiences the painful births of the dogs over and over again, "hourly conceived/A nd hourly born(p)" (ll796-797). This gross imagery foreshadows what Eve will soon experience subsequently the fall of Eden.It is also important to note that Sin carries the entire load of her familys vice within her womb as would Eve and all of her daughters. agree to Milton, the original sin of procreating via sex began in the non-mortal world, and the woman suffers it by painful births.