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817-833 Eve debates whether to share her knowledge and happiness with Adam or to keep the power herself. She thinks that keeping the knowledge to herself will render her Adam's equal. Yet if she should die, she couldn't bear the thought of Adam with another woman--she would prefer that they both die.
834-855 In the meantime, Adam has made Eve a garland of flowers. He has sensed the danger.
856-885 Eve meets Adam by the Tree of Knowledge. Excitedly she tells him what she did.
886-920 Adam's blood runs cold as he hears of her trespass. Speechless, he drops the garland on the ground and its roses fade and lose their petals. He says that Eve is "defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote" (901). Adam declares that Satan has ruined him with her; since they're one flesh, he would die without her.
921-959 Adam conjectures that they probably won't die, since their destruction would mean victory for Satan. Adam consents to a love triangle with death if they do in fact encounter the same doom.
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