Comparison to Paradise Lost by aralias

Comparison to Paradise Lost by aralias

By Megan Novak

This blog compares the actual text of John Milton’s Paradise Lost to the clay representation by aralias found on YouTube.  The clay representation (link given below) is a brief and simplistic representation of the scene in which Adam and Eve are created by god and then ultimately execute the original sin.  In the clay representation the hand represents God.  Adam is created first as he is in Milton’s text.  The first difference is that God then creates Eve equally, and there is no evidence to prove that Eve is created from Adam.  Then Eve is tempted by the serpent (Satan) and eats the fruit.  This process in the clay form shows no doubt or consideration as Eve has in Milton’s text.  However this representation does exhibit the traditional belief that the original sin is Eve’s fault as I believe that Milton is trying to disprove.  Adam then makes a rather quick decision to sin with Eve as doe’s Milton’s Adam.  God then punishes Adam and Eve and forces them out of Eden, as does Milton’s god (however this process takes longer in Milton’s text due to the story of the future told by the angels.)

            Even though this version varies in many key elements of the text the creativity of the filmmaker must be noted.  This cute story of the original sin scene provides a basis for the reader as to what the common conception o the story of genesis is with out getting into the heads of the characters as Milton does.  I believe that it is in this key difference between previous renditions of the fall of man that makes Milton’s poem such a masterpiece.  The creative way in which this scene was represented makes me wish that the filmmaker had created the entire text, because it is both comical and easy to understand with out the need of speech. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jE2FgIkGlE