Unlike many other authors and poets, Milton gives us many reasons to believe that his life is reflected in his writing. His whole-hearted activism on the part of the English rebellion of the 17th century, and the very severe condition that he wrote at least part of "Paradise Lost" in, seems to be blatant reasons to believe that his writing is as much a reflection of his exterior turmoil as it is a true inspiration of the mind. ... As Peter Herman writes in Warring chains of signifiers, "But by situating the Republic in Hell, both through allusions to the Parliament of Hell genre and the Etru...

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The main motif of conducting the research is to draw a comparative picture between "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," so at the beginning we have provided some of the major key factors and basing on those factors we have categorized our comparisons between the two books. "The Iliad" (sometimes referr...

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