Man and nature after the fall in Paradise Lost In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in the relationships between man and nature can be better discussed when we look at Milton's pre-Autumn descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. Believing that fallen humans could never fully understand what life in Eden and the relationships shared by purely innocent beings were like, Milton begins his depiction of Paradise and Adam and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan: So little knows None but God alone, to value the just good before him, but perverts the best things into a worse abuse, or into their meanest use. Below him with new wonder he now sees with all the joy of the human senses displayed in a narrow room all the richness of nature, or rather, a paradise on earth: for the blessed paradise of God he had the Garden planted by him to the east of the 'Eden... (IV, 201-210)Milton presents a symbolic landscape, a garden that was certainly created by a divine power. Eden is fertile and «All the noblest trees for sight, smell, taste» (IV, 217) grow in abundance with fruit. There are mountains, hills, groves, a river and other earthly delights. Adam and Eve live in this paradise and their task is to take care of the garden: "They made them sit down, and after no more effort / Then their sweet gardening work was enough" (IV, 27-28). Eden functions in harmony with Adam and Eve, allowing them to partake of its abundance, and also lives and thrives on its own. Eden has a mind and is a living being, it is excessive and therefore dangerous because it has the potential to suffocate itself, to suffocate everything in its path. When Milton first describes Adam and Eve, they are one with the Garden... middle of paper... trust and Unfair violation on the part of Man, revolt and disobedience: on the part of the alienated Heav'nNow, distance and disgust... (PL. IX, 1-9) Works cited and consulted: Elledge, Scott, ed. Paradise Lost: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism. New York: Norton, 1975.Fox, Robert C. “The Allegory of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost.” Modern Language Quarterly 24 (1963): 354-64.Lewis, C.S. A preface to Paradise Lost. Rpt. New York: Oxford UP, 1979. Milton, John. Paradise lost. In John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. Indianapolis: 1980. O'Keeffe, Timothy J. "An Analogue to Milton's 'Sin' and More on the Tradition." Milton Quarterly 5 (1971): 74-77. Patrick, John M. "Milton, Phineas Fletcher, Spenser, and Ovid: Sin at the Gates of Hell." Notes and questions September. 1956: 384-86.