With Mary's writings, she implies that God wanted the woman to be obedient even though she personally does not agree with it. “The sky will of course fall; and if she makes an obedient and devoted wife, she cannot fail. (P. 2423) But we see that Mary's own rebellion tries to influence women to be disobedient: “the woman has no great obligations towards the man who makes love to her; » (Pg. 2424) this same thought of obedience leading to disobedience can be connected to Milton's "Paradise Lost". Eve learns to listen to Adam and Adam is her connection to God. Milton very vaguely describes Eve as inferior to Adam: “Hence true authority among men; although both were not equal, as their sex did not seem equal; » (Bk 4 Ln 295) When the angels of God come to speak to Adam, Eve must rely on Adam to give her the information and trust his word. We can see in book 8 that Eve has to leave the conversation when Adam speaks “Served by nobler than she, reaches her end without the slightest movement” (Ln 35). With all these notations that Eve is less than Adam, we see how she wants Adam to join her so that they both become equal in knowledge by the statement "So you also taste, that equal lot may join us , equal joy, like equal love." (Bk 9 Ln 881) This act is the first disobedience of our characters in “Paradise Lost” and shows the rebellion of