I. Nature

• earthquake at Eve's fall 9.782-84
• Eve's flowers wither (9.891-92)
• earthquake at Adam's fall (9.1000)
• thunder and "sad drops" of rain (9.1002-3)
• animals war with one another and eat each other (10.710-12)
• animals fear man

II. Adam and Eve

• Adam and Eve and the Seven Deadly Sins (Book 9)
  1. Eve's Pride ("nor was godhead from her thought") 9.790
  2. Eve's Gluttony ("greedily she engorged without restraint") 9.791
  3. Lust between Adam and Eve ("carnal desire" in 9.1013) and "contagious fire" in 9.1035- 45)
  4. Shame (not a deadly sin! something else is going on here) (9.1058)
     • Adam and Eve put on fig leaves; comparison to American Indians and Amazons (9.1110- 18)
• Spiritual degeneration and regeneration of Adam and Eve in Book 10
  1. desire for death (10.771-782)
  2. fear of eternal pain (10.782-813)
  3. ADAM'S WRATH: calls Eve a serpent and a crooked rib (10.867-888)
  4. EVE assumes blame (10.930-936)
  5. DESPAIR:
     • Adam says that Eve should remain childless (10.989)
     • Adam suggests suicide (10.1001-07)
  6. UNDERSTANDING:
     • Adam begins to understand God's judgment (10.1027-59)
     • woman's seed shall bruise serpent's head (10.1030)
     • curse of childbirth and work (10.1050-53)
  7. PRAYER:
  8. UNITY: (12.646-49)