| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter One Eve's Position in Message-transferring Order | 第17-25页 |
| Ⅰ. Message-transferring Order Based on Hierarchic Chains | 第17-21页 |
| A. Heaven | 第18页 |
| B.Eden | 第18-21页 |
| C. Hell | 第21页 |
| Ⅱ. Eve:Receiving Message Mainly from Adam in Principle | 第21-25页 |
| A. Receiving Education | 第22-23页 |
| B. Receiving Holy Message | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Eve's Function in Adam's Moral Development | 第25-39页 |
| Ⅰ. Adam's Moral Development in Paradise Lost | 第26-27页 |
| Ⅱ. Eve's Function | 第27-33页 |
| A. Test to Adam's Free Will | 第27-30页 |
| B. Test to Adam's Faith to God | 第30-31页 |
| C. Test to Adam's Recovery from Despair | 第31-33页 |
| Ⅲ. Michael's Prophecy:Sign of the End of Eve's Function | 第33-39页 |
| A. Consolidating Adam's Faith to God | 第34-35页 |
| B. Strengthening Adam's Firm Hope for the Coming life | 第35-36页 |
| C. Obtaining Spiritual Paradise | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Three Milton's Reference to the Relative Texts | 第39-45页 |
| Ⅰ. Influential Relative Texts before Paradise Lost | 第39-42页 |
| Ⅱ. Milton's Imitation of Du Bartas | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Four Influence of the Debate over Women | 第45-55页 |
| Ⅰ. The Debate over Women in the Seventeenth Century | 第46-48页 |
| Ⅱ. The Debate over Women, Paradise Lost and Eve's Absence | 第48-55页 |
| A. Response to the Two Sides of the Debate over Women | 第48-52页 |
| B. Consolidating the Traditional Gender Hierarchy | 第52-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Works Cited | 第57-60页 |
