Paradise Lost ; Satan controls our bad habits

             John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is about the downfall and the beginning of evil to man kind. He writes about how Satan influences the bad things in life. Satan is in charge of sins, temptation and anything evil.
             Milton poses the question of how Adam and Eve's disobedience occurred and explains that their actions were partly due to Satan's deception. Did Satan make Adam eat the fruit? Was it his own choice?
             Satan could have forced temptation onto Adam to take the fruit. Eve could have been influenced by Satan to temp Adam with the fruit. Being tempted with the fruit, Adam couldn't resist, so he consumed it.
             Does Satan really influence us do the wrong things, or are we responsible for our wrong decisions? Was Adam's temptation his own, or brought upon by Satan? Adam could possess his own type of evil or temptation without Satan's help. Eve tempting Adam with the fruit could have been her own doing.
             How much influence does Satan have over us? Not everything we do is controlled by Satan. Humans have the downfalls of greed, jealousy, temptation and cruelty. Human might do things that hurt other people for them to gain from it. People usually don't do anything wrong if they won't possibly benefit from it. If a person kills another person it gets that person to be quiet or get away from them. A person could spread lies about another person because they are jealous and they want to see them get hurt. Of course money is the route to a lot of evil. The more money humans have the more power they obtain. Humans crave power. When it becomes to be an obsessive evil, I believe Satan is assisting the human. Once the person has money and power, Satan could easily alter their personality and control them. They could be controlled to do evil things to others for more money or power. People cant get enough money or power.
             Being that Adam and Eve were the first humans put...

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