To begin with, Milton uses many allusions to the Bible. He opens the story explaining man’s first sin with the forbidden fruit and Adam and Eve: “Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all our woe.” He describes how both Adam and Eve went against God by eating a forbidden fruit which caused destruction and strife in
To begin with, Milton uses many allusions to the Bible. He opens the story explaining man’s first sin with the forbidden fruit and Adam and Eve: “Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all our woe.” He describes how both Adam and Eve went against God by eating a forbidden fruit which caused destruction and strife in