Satan and Eve

Satan and Eve similarities-
An interesting connection that I made between Satan and Eve is that they both ultimately seemed to be trying to gain the same thing, they both seemed to want equality and almost freedom. Satan rebels against God because he is the ruler of heaven and Satan doesn’t want to be controlled. Referring to God as a tyrant, “Who now triumphs and in th’ excess of joy/ Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n” (book one, pg. 7, lines 123-124) Satan also sees himself as being courageous for fighting for freedom, “And courage never to submit or yield--” (pg. 6, line 108) Satan wants to challenge gods “high supremacy” (pg. 7, line 132) So satan seems similar to eve because she is also at a lower level then adam.
Eve is constantly treated as someone lower throughout this poem. She’s created for adam from his rib and is often put to sleep when anything intellectual is occurring. She’s also described as being good to look at but not really for anything else, just to please adam. So it seems to me that both Satan and Eve were just fighting to gain some more power/equality. Eve says in the beginning of her soliloquy on pg. 217, “Great are thy virtues doubtless, best of fruits,/ Though kept from Man, and worthy to be admired,” (lines 745-746) If we take that as Eve talking about herself then that supports the argument that she realizes she isn’t an equal to adam. She is kept ‘from Man’ and is ‘worthy to be admired’ nothing more. Also Satan brings up how the beasts can eat from the tree but not them? Again hinting towards an inequality. Once eve does eat the fruit she contemplates telling adam or not and what kind of benefits it could bring her, “But keep the odds of knowledge in my pow’r”…. “And render me more equal and, perhaps,/ A thing not undesirable, sometime/ Superior: for inferior who is free?” (pg. 219, lines 820-825) So Eve recognizes that the fruit could have put her on an equal level with Adam and like Satan she starts to feel like she could be in power and above Adam like Satan wanted to be above God. The line “Superior: for inferior who is free?” really makes me connect Satan and Eve because that seems like the reasoning behind Satan’s attack on God in the beginning.
The difference I see is that after both eve and satan fall, eve becomes very submissive and feels like she has done this terrible thing and will then be obedient where satan continues to fight against god.