Thus, the different qualities of male and female dreaming indicate not only the different ways in which men and women dream of power but also the greater ability of women to be impinged upon in their brains by evil. Adam's dreaming vision is more concrete, while Eve's is located in a lesser sense of physical reality, and lies in the highfalutin syntax and discourse of Satan's twisted mind. Eve experiences her dream almost as if her brain is being raped or impinged upon by outside forces, and her husband experiences outrage and this violation of his helpmate's consciousness much as if it were a sexual act. Adam does not relate his more humble, yet still disturbing, dream to Eve in the same immediate fashion, although he too describes dreaming to himself as a kind of impingement from the outside, rather than a psychological or internal manifestation of his own consciousness, although his dream is more along the lines of a gardener or farmer enjoying the fruits of his labor in an especially intense way, in the way he sees nature around him.
Milton's use of dreaming prefigures what will transpire in the poem's narrative later on, and this may be one reason that the characters of Adam and Eve have a sense of being impinged upon by others -- Milton makes Satan's devious plans quite clear as a kind of foreshadowing, and Eve is the first to dream and the first to fall. In particular, the stress upon divinity in Eve's dreams suggests her greater grip in the hand of evil. She is more subservient and susceptible to the fantasies of Satan than is Adam because she has a weaker female soul, although Adam still loves her and she seems like a fundamentally 'good' person, as viewed by her helpmate in Eden Adam.
The use of dreaming in the poem also serves an important form of foreshadowing, to create narrative...
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