This paper reviews the two different versions of the story of Adam and Eve as we know it, the biblical
version and the version
from John Milton's "Paradise Lost". It examines how in both stories, Adam and Eve exist in a state of perfection before the
fall of mankind and how Paradise (Eden) provides the idyllic setting in which Adam and Eve relish their divinely ordained and human love. It looks at how the relationship between Adam and Eve in Milton's "Paradise Lost" is psychologically more complex than it is in the Hebrew Bible and how in both stories, the couple enjoy their relative freedom before the fall, but they also act out certain roles and patterns.