John Milton's Paradise Lost is a great story about the creation of humanity and its ultimate downfall. It strongly represents the fall of Satan from heaven, along with the other angels who rebelled with him. Milton describes some phenomena that changed dramatically after the fall of man. The simple act of Adam and Eve eating the apple caused what many consider to be the greatest upheaval in human history. The one thing that could be most profoundly changed is humanity's knowledge of its environment and what constitutes the world. When God created man, we had very little knowledge of how anything worked, but we had enough to survive. After Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they gained much of the knowledge they so desired, and which we can still see in modern life, but they only did so at a very high cost. Before all of this could be explained or Adam and Eve had started a great chain reaction of knowledge that can be seen as both good and bad. Today we see this fully and are able to understand the things we do because of them. Whereas before they ate the apple, we didn't know much about anything, compared to today we have scientific theories proving how almost everything works as well as a greater knowledge of what is good and bad. One comparison that can be made is that of knowledge gained as we age. When people are little, they believe that everything is good and have an innocent view of the world (like before they ate an apple), but as they get older, they begin to see less innocence and better understand how everything works in the world (after eating the apple). It is interesting to think about what our lives would be like if both had not been eaten by the tree of knowledge. Would we still be eager to know or will we just wander with our innocent minds and live peacefully in