The next reason one should have some empathy for Sin is for what Satan did to her .For Satan committed incest with his daughter. Milton discusses the crime that Satan committed towards Sin. Sin confronts Satan by saying “Becam'st enamour'd, and such joy thou took'st with me in secret, that my womb conceiv'd.” (2.765-766). While Satan was known as Lucifer, he committed incest with his daughter. This act will forever be inscribed on sin DNA and that of the DNA of her descendents. In an article titled “Incest - Effects On Victims” the writer writes concerning the side effects of incest “To manipulate the victim, most incest perpetrators foster in the child a set of behaviors that help the child maintain the denial and self-deception needed to survive an ongoing incestuous relationship.” What was just said shows the relationship of Sin and Satan. Its true Sin is not perfect character but in the end, it was Satan who convinced her into joined him to rebel against God. Even before Satan convinced her to open the gates of hell, she was serving good. So one can may an argument that her fall may not have been on her choice but rather she was stringed along like a puppet master and Sin being the puppet and Satan the puppet master. Its true one can say that Sin has a choice, and she could have picked to do but as it said before, Sin was manipulated when she was a child and the trend continued throughout her life.Another tragic act that Sin underwent would add more reason for Sin to receive empathy is the assault she had to endure.. After Satan committed incest with Sin , this grievous act resulted in Sin giving birth. Sin gave birth to a being she called Death. One would assume that birth would be a joyous event but it was not. Sin being the narrator describes what happened after her giving birth, she says “and in embrace forcible and foul Engend’ring with me of that rape” (2.793-794). He son Death raped her, and as a result from this outrageous act came to be demon dogs.1Professor HerronLLE 3329/27/11The tragedy of Sin in Paradise LostJohn Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) tells the tale of the fall of man from God’s good grace. When Satan first thought of rebelling against God his daughter Sin came to be. One of the lesser-known characters in Paradise Lost is Sin. To truly understand Sin one must look at all of Sin’s facets of her existence. After considering Sin’s actions, a question that should be asked should Sin get empathy as a substitute for receiving judgment and with the possibility of getting less judged, or get severely judged? I believe in the end Sin should get empathy based on the issues she wentthrough, most notably woman’s plight, and the unholy trinity.Throughout the poem Sin appears to be negative character. Milton’s use of the following quote serves as the basis for Sin. For it says in the Epistle of James “Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (1:15). This quote sums up Sin, from the time of her birth until the present. This quote does not help Sin’s case to be judged less. It makes her more evil and not worthy ofreceiving empathy. Further examining Sin’s story this quote regardless of its negative nature may offer Sin more empathy than at first sight.. For it tells her tragedy. Since it puts Sin in such a negative position, one would attempt to look at the opposite to gain clarity on Sin being. The opposite would put Sin in a positive light.2Considering the treatment of women during Milton’s time, it warrants that Sin deserves empathy. In Stanley Fish’s work “How Milton Works,” he conveys that Sin is female, because back then woman were idol worshipers and were various forms of temptation. Fish writes;Nor is it an accident that Sin is a woman; for in the tradition Milton inherits and by and large accepts women is the chief vehicle of idolatry, the very essence (or nonessence) of difference, some-thing created after, the first sign- the first, that is,not intimately related to the first- the primary form of temptation, of erroneous (wandering) worship, as son remainds Adam when he asks with devastating brevity: “was shee thy God?” (X 145).This piece brings out the harsh realities of how Milton see’s the character Sin. One can see how Milton is by now setting up Sin; he is setting her up as the bad girl or someone who does not warrant anything. For Milton is, associating her with idol worship and idol worship is one of the worst sins a person can do, according to the Bible. Ironic not all women throughout history were idol worshipers that reason alone should warrant Sin receiving empathy. The best way that shows why Sin should get empathy is through looking at her psychical body. Her own body gives the viewer and reader a sense that Sin is in both worlds. The world where she is the victim has some good and the world where she is badand does not deserve any empathy or positive views towards her. With the struggle of both worlds good versus evil that should warrant empathy being that she’s trying to decide on which path to fallow. Milton description of sin is the following:3“The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, but ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast--a serpent armedwith mortal sting. About her middle roundA cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barkedwith wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rungA hideous peal” (2.250-256)The good part or the one that deserves empathy is body up past the waistline. For it is the upper body that shows the good and beauty. Something that would be deserving of empathy and caring, for if it only were this part she would then be deserving of empathy and caring, but it’s not the case. The bottom part, which is anything past the waist, is the dark and bad side. For this side consists of a serpent body and hellhounds that come out of the stomach. We see from her body that in theory the idea of both good and evil can coexist. But at the end due to this nature Sin wouldn’t be able to get any kind of empathy or biasness, for since she is both good and evil she is also beyond it anything that anyone would give her whether its empathy or be negatively bias. One can see the issues that appear concerning Sin and her body representing the Grey Issue. For her the description of her body shows the ultimate ideal of the idea of being a gray character. From the bottom all the way until stomach,