No more of talk where God or Angel Guest 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 …
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…and Eve are together, the Garden thrives, almost to the point of danger, but this danger can be under control so long as they tend to their work as a team. When Eve separated herself from Adam, their unity with nature was broken. Although this division of labour could prove beneficial to the Garden in the beginning, the adversary, Satan, sees a weakness in this separation and attacks, changing the relations between 'man' and nature.