Our Need For Community

In Book Eight, I found it interesting how Adam realized his need for community. In lines 364-365, Adam questions, “’In solitude, what happiness? Who can enjoy alone, or, all enjoying, what contentment find?’” In Genesis, we find that God is the one who first says that it is not good for man to be alone rather than Adam being the first to question his solitude. Although Milton’s account does not exactly line up with Scripture, I still find this longing for community to be true in my own life. I like how Milton portrays this very human need from the very beginning, but the idea also leads me to question why God was not enough for Adam in the first place.  

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