in paradise lost, adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit. Satan asked eve to eat as forbidden fruit comprises knowledge in it. What is its symbolification in the whole poem?
The forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge symbolizes, as it does in the Old Testament, temptation and disobedience. When Satan leads Eve to the tree, he tempts her both with the taste of the fruit and with the argument that the fruit could make her and Adam as powerful as God. The fruit is the ultimate temptation for man because it comes with such high stakes, eventually leading to their expulsion from Eden altogether.
