the physical, while Adam is mind. She is everything that pulls the soul toward the earth, while Adam is everything that helps it rise toward heaven. In the garden, though, the two are complementary rather than opposite.
There are two Eves in Paradise Lost, the first one the Eve before the fall and the second one the Eve after. The Eve before the fall contributes to the fall by being seduced by the serpent, and she eats of the tree of knowledge and causes Adam to do so.
The Eve after the fall is a different issue. She will be the mother of mankind, and yet she now knows what this will mean. She has been told of God's wrath and of the fact that human beings will now suffer and die, and she wants to save what would be her children from such a fate. She suggests in Book X that she and Adam could save mankind by refusing to propagate--if they have no children, there will be no humankind to suf
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