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Motherhood and Sin Explored in John Milton's Paradise Lost


There are very few representations of active motherhood in Paradise Lost, and of these, only one has a speaking role: Sin, the daughter of Satan and the mother of shapeless Death. While Milton portrays Nature and Earth as mother figures, and Evešs most common epithet is First Motherš or Mother of Mankindš, none of these characters (or, failing that, images) is indicative of active motherhood. Eve has no children at any point in the poem, and as one of the primary conditions of motherhood is most likely that one will have had to have borne a child, she is not a viable choice for finding any representation of true motherhood. Sin is the readeršs only model (as one of the two speaking female roles in the poem), and this model is, understandably, not the most encouraging. I submit, that as in reading the epic, one must always be careful of the hypocrisies and illogic of Satan, one must also assume that Sin as a mother is also a model almost wholly to be avoided as a paradigm of motherhood. From negating most of the aspects o... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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