Adjectives associated with each character also contribute to their meaning.
Eve is associated with the “sweet” berries; Birds describe her as “motherless”; her body is “white” with innocence. Contrarily, Satan’s voice of seduction is “soft,” “silvery,” and “low.” The birds make “clatter” noises of hatred towards him. The path he takes that leads Eve to the tree is “dark” and “blasphemous” as it signifies sin and death.