Even though Adam willingly agreed to eat the fruit, it is easy to see that this incident was caused by Eve. In Speght's "A Muzzle for Melastomus", she takes a more defensive stance and defends Eve even though she agrees that Eve was the first to sin. Speght's defense of Eve is based on Eve being the source of everyone's discrimination against women, and she strives to prove that men and women are equal despite Eve's flaws. “The first promise that was made in paradise, God made to the woman, that by her seed the head of the serpent should be broken… that as the woman had been an occasion of sin, so the woman should bring forth the savior of the sin, which was in the fullness of time fulfilled... so that through the blessed seed of Eve (as St. Paul affirms) it comes to pass that "the male and the female are all one in Christ Jesus"" (p. 1654). She argues that even though she was the first to sin, since the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, our lord and savior, Eve cannot be held responsible for the subjugation of woman on the basis of her fishing. Additionally, Speght argues that Adam and Eve were originally created equal in the eyes of God. “Yet she was not produced from Adam's foot, to be his inferior too low, nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal... By what words it makes their authority equal, and all creatures must be subject to them both” (p. 1654-1655). God's intention has always been for men and women to be equal, so any discrimination against women is also discrimination against God's intention. Eve never had bad intentions or was aware of any danger. She actually felt happiness after eating the fruit and thought that she should share this happiness with her beloved Adam. “However, by giving the fruit to eat, she had no malicious intention towards her, but thereby showed the desire to make her eat.