Love and Lust and Sin in Milton’s Lost Paradise

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Love and lust and sin in Milton’s Lost Paradise Our maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and Man? Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety, In Paradise of all things common else. (4.748-752) There are not many sex scenes described in Paradise Lost but this quote is a relatively famous sex scene written in book 4. To choose this quotation not only because the words are so beautiful in describing Adam and Eve the most intimate behavior with implicit wordings, but also because this part is impressive. Speaking to love and lust, it may seem a prohibition from ancient times to nowadays. Yet, this topic is meaningful to talk about through this quote. Saint like Adam and Eve, can lust exist in their relationship? Milton writes "bids increase" which means the "be fruitful and multiply" idea and suggests that only Satan who is a kind of destroyer or a similar minded person would have control. Without a shadow of doubt, Adam and Eve are totally not the same kind of person like Satan. In this way, they do not need to have any abstinence. Love and lust is somehow highly related. It seems lust is rooted from love, or say, love generates lust in a relationship. Of couse, there are some exceptional cases. Irony, lust is one of the seven deathly sins. Lust is classified as a kind of sin. But in Paradise Lost, sin is about Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Hence, is lust a sin then or did Adam and Eve commit sin? Just put away all the moral traditional concepts for a while, Adam and Eve are just showing how much they love each other and therefore generate lust in their relation. This kind of lust cannot be classified as a sin at
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