Two very powerful female figures are featured in Error of The Faerie Queene and Sin of Paradise Lost. These two characters are quite similar in their depiction, with Milton paying clear homage to Spencer's work. Both characters have the same monster qualities, and both possess allegorical names and qualities. The mistake is by far the most disgusting depiction of the two monsters. In Book 1, Canto 1, she is the first obstacle to meeting the knight and his party. She represents the consequences of recklessness and overconfidence in the night. Seeking shelter from a storm while lost in the woods, the knight and his party come across a cave. He is warned by Una not to enter the dark and foreboding cave, "Oft fire is without smoke, / and peril without spectacle: therefore your move / Sir knight, hold back, until further trials be made. (103)" Even the dwarf warns that "this is no place for living men."(117)" But the knight, "full of fire and eager ardor (118)", enters. "the dark hole.(120)". After entering, his "shining" armor reflects some light into the dark cave, allowing him to clearly see the beast-woman reacting to the light, her "thousand" disfigured descendants crawling into it. the sanctity of his wretched mouth. These youths are imitated by Milton in his descriptions of Satan's daughter in Paradise Lost. The first connection......middle of article......iption, Milton. offers simple comparisons - perhaps a more powerful comparison would be with Error itself Works cited and consulted: Elledge, Scott, ed. Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews. New York: Norton, 1975. Milton, John. Paradise lost. Ed. Roy Flannagan. New York: Macmillan, 1993. Spencer. Ed. Annabel Patterson. New York: Longman, 1998. Spenser, Edmund. The Queen of Fairies. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Mr. H. Abrams. Webber, Joan Malory. “The Politics of Poetry: Feminism and Paradise Lost.” » Studies of Milton. Flight. 14. Ed. James D. Simmonds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh P, 1980. 3-24.