Paradise Lost: resumo de Book 9

O que acontece

1. The narrator announces a tragic subject and seeks heavenly help for a heroism beyond warfare.
2. Satan secretly enters Eden through the Tigris and possesses a sleeping serpent as his instrument of deception.
3. Eve proposes separate gardening, and Adam warns that their enemy seeks an advantage when they are apart.
4. Eve defends her ability to resist temptation, receives Adam's permission, and leaves with a promise to return by noon.
5. Finding Eve alone, Satan briefly loses his malice before renewing his purpose and flattering her through the serpent.
6. The serpent claims fruit grants speech and reason, guides Eve to the forbidden tree, and challenges the restriction she describes.

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O que observar

Adam distinguishes avoiding danger from proving strength through a test. His warning frames the dispute over Eve's decision to work alone.

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