Manipulation In Paradise Lost

In Milton’s Paradise Lost he expresses the different aspects of Eve and Satan .Satan uses his manipulation from the start of the creation of Eve.Satan uses his rhetoric to make Eve fall into his plan and cause her to corrupt Eden.Eve goes wrong by becoming Satan and creating Adam to sin. Eve when she became created she had the same qualities as Satan does. He appeals to her self absorbed mindset. After changing her perspective of God and Adam he causes her to sin and make her second guess her life and how it might end up without Adam. This information causes her to envy the ‘new eve’ and tempt Adam. In Paradise Lost Eve portrays herself as a parallel to Satan by showing the same manipulative and deceptive traits as Satan does which cause Eve to participate in Satan’s plan to cause the fall of Eden.
Eve’s first resemblance of Satan like qualities are shown through her first moments of creation.When she became created she looks at herself in the pond: “ As I bent down to look, just opposite, a shape within the wat’ry gleam appeared bending to look on me, i started back, it started back, but please I
Eve realizes if God goes through with the initial plan of killing her, since she eat from the tree, she will not be with Adam anymore: “ This may be well but what if God have seen and death ensue? Then I shall be no more, And Adam wedded to another Eve, shall live with her enjoying, i extinct; a death to think. Confirmed then I resolved Adam she'll share with me in blister and woe: so dear I love him that with him all deaths I can endure without him live no life”(IX ln 826-833). In this scene she thinks of herself. She becomes envious of the fact that if she dies there would be another Eve. She would be replaced. This idea becomes so upsetting she puts all of mankind on the line for her happiness. She loves Adam so much enough to tempt him and cause the fall of Eden just so he will not