Question

19. Read this excerpt from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

“Th’ infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,/Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived/The mother of
mankind…”
To what event is Milton referring in these lines from Paradise Lost? (1 point),

Answer 1

the answer is “Adam and Eve’s fall from perfection”

Answer 2

Milton is referring to the Devil, disguised as a serpent, tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden. The serpent deceives her and Adam into eating the forbidden golden apples from the Tree of Life, and they are cast out of Eden forever.