Apples....Again

I personally loved Good Omens. This could have been due to the fact that it was full of hilarious references to the unending fallacies of man, or perhaps the fact that I understood the Paradise Lost references since I have studied it so intensely this semester. Either way, I found Good Omens to be a breath of fresh air after months of Milton's hard to decipher poetry.

There were numerous quotes from Good Omens that stick out in my mind, but one that is particularly humorous and thought-provoking to me comes right at the end of the novel. The quote goes, "And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

To me, this quote pretty much sums up the views of the Adams of both Good Omens as well as Paradise lost. Of course, the Good Omens' Adam was being slightly more simplistic in his use of the apple, mostly referring the fact that he found apples particularly delicious, but I thought the quote was a hilarious spoof of the way the biblical Adam of Paradise Lost eventually feels about his eating of the forbidden apple as well.

Although initially feeling that he had committed the most terrible mistake he ever could have, the Adam of Paradise Lost eventually comes to see, with some help from the Angel Michael, that his eating of the apple will make a new Paradise in time. This Adam may not have made any remarks concerning the taste of the apple, but he does see that bad decisions do not always lead to the most awful consequences.

All in all, the list of connections between the Adam's could go on for a very long time, but for now, I will stop making comparisons and leave you thinking about one question. What you would do for an apple?

-Sheryl W