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Like Eden's tree of knowledge of good and evil, Sweet Home's trees read ambiguously, for Sethe recalls these beautiful "lacy groves" at the same time that she re-memories the white boys in the groves who forcefully suck the milk from her breasts. But the unity (of spirit) created by God became separated by temptation, the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The tree is called "the tree of knowledge" not because it contains knowledge in itself or even because desire for knowledge leads to eating it, but because knowledge of good and evil necessarily follows from the act of disobedience: Milton says elsewhere that "[i]t was called the tree of knowledge of good and evil from the event"--"event" here carrying its Latin meaning "outcome" (Christian Doctrine 993). |
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