I view the old stories in Genesis through an allegorical lens, though there is something very significant about the burdens God puts upon the shoulders of Adam and Eve.
Firstly, the things that fall upon Adam and Eve run parallel to what happens to humanity at the emergence of us becoming self-conscious of morality and vulnerability. With the emergence of that self-consciousness begins a conscious realization of the danger of the world, and thus paired with articulate speech the beginnings of human civilization, and with the beginnings of human civilization human biology and the psychological differences between men and women means that society will start of patriarchal. Likewise with conscious awareness of vulnerability also comes the recognition of the risk involved with just looking for food on a day by day basis as opposed to doing something like agriculture to guarantee a more stable long term food supply. Likewise, scientifically the pain of human women in childbirth was indeed multiplied by our awakening, since with the disproportionate evolution of our brains, the human head became larger at a rate disproportionate to the growth of the human birth canal.
What I find really interesting though is that what God tells Adam and Eve they must do is often viewed as a punishment, and fair enough, but I think it's a necessary corollary to becoming conscious of good and evil and vulnerability. Once you are exposed to the tension between good and evil you are shouldered with the burden of having to deal with that, and what God tells Adam and Eve to do is the beginning of a process that will generate an impetus for social and moral standards. First there's the conscious adoption of responsibility inherent in Adam's manual labor for the sake of providing food and resources, and Eve's adoption of the responsibility of birthing and raising a child that she must eventually let go into the larger and more dangerous world as they become an adult. There's also the factor of division of labor within a household, which creates a cooperative strategy and therefore inculcates social and moral standards within the household to aid. Likewise, Adam being told to pursue agriculture leads to an abundance of food and other resources among humans, which inculcates trade and economics, which by their nature involve cooperation and civilization and thus there an impetus for the development of social and moral standards is also inculcated. Lastly Eve's desire for her husband, men being dominant at the beginning of human civilization, and Eve needing to protect her child means that a woman is going to be driven to select for a man that they can more comfortably live under and that they can trust to protect and provide her and her child, which generates a certain value hierarchy of standards men are held to in the mating pool, which in and of itself creates an impetus for men in particular to hold themselves to social and moral standards in order to be desirable partners.
(Just as a sidenote, I also find it interesting that the first murder in the Bible committed by Cain was written thousands of years ago, and the same motivations behind the first murder in the Bible wound up being the motivations of an ideology in the 20th century that has racked up a more impressive kill count than any other ideology)