 Meyer sees this change as influenced by the writings of the 4th century theologian Augustine of Hippo, "who sees Eve’s sexuality as destructive to male rationality".By the seventeenth century, the Fall of man as a male-female struggle emerges, and in the eighteenth century, the perception of Eve is influenced by John Miltons "Paradise Lost" where Adam's free will is emphasized along with Eve's beauty.Thereafter a secular view of Eve emerges "through her transformation into a "femme fatale"—a compound of beauty, seductiveness and independence set to destroy the man."