The origin of the human being on Earth is the result of disobedience. This mythical and foundational premise is found in the colossal poem of the Paradise Lost’ by John Milton (1667), and in the brilliant stage adaptation of Helena Tornero (Teatre Romea). If the English drew a rebellious and contradictory Satan, confronted with God because he wants to be free, Tornero contributes a Eva aware of her rebellion by biting the apple: I want to be free. I want to get out of here. And so, the world, our world, humanity, is born from one, from multiple expulsions. Satan banished from heaven. The man and the woman, from paradise. And the yearning for freedom as an essential, inalienable, imperative drive.
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