With Mary's writings, she implies that God intended for the woman to be obedient even if she personally does not agree with it. “Heaven will obviously fall; and if she is nothing other than an obedient and respectful wife, she cannot be missed. (Page 2423) But we see that Mary's rebellion is trying to influence women to be disobedient: "the woman has no great obligations to the man who makes love to her"; (Page 2424) this same thought of obedience leading to disobedience can be linked to Milton's “Paradise Lost”. Eve is taught to listen to Adam and Adam is her connection to God. Milton Describes Eve as inferior to Adam very vaguely: “Whence comes true authority in men; though both were not equal, as it seemed their sex was not equal; (Book 4 Ln 295) When God's angels come to speak to Adam, Eve must rely on Adam to provide her with information and trust in his word. We can see in book 8 that Eve has to leave the conversation when Adam speaks “Served by one more noble than her, she reaches her goal without the slightest movement” (Book 8 Ln 35). With all these notations that Eve is inferior to Adam, we look at how she wants Adam to unite with her so that they both become equal in knowledge through the statement "You too therefore should taste, so that equal fate may unite us, equal joy, equal love ". (Book 9 Ln 881) This act is the first disobedience of our characters in “Paradise Lost” and shows the rebellion of