Paradise Lost by John Milton is an epic that talks about a married couple named Adam and Eve that lives in a garden. John Milton wanted to make them as sort of hero types and not referring to the original Adam and Eve. ... The epic begins with the fall of Satan to hell when defeated by God and Satan and his fallen angels began to plot a plan to get to Paradise Island and overthrow God. ... Once Satan reaches Paradise Island, he transforms to different living things such as a bird, a serpent, and some other things. ...

• Word Count: 403
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• Grade Level: High School

In the text Paradise Lost, Satan is very much a main character who has maybe the most dialogue and character development. ... He lost this battle and God banished Satan as well as his followers out of Heaven forever. ... Milton himself was a puritan in Western Europe. ... Most readers of Paradise Lost would agree, after reading the first half of the poem they want to sympathize with Satan. ... The status of whoever is reading Paradise Lost is most likely in a similar boat, not in the sense that they are in something like hell, but that they work to end up in a better place. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As John Milton writes the poem, Paradise Lost, he uses literary devices such as similes, symbolism, and motifs and to make Satan seem like a self-deceiver and self-condemner throughout his speech in lines 32-79 within book four. ... Within this simile, Milton shows how the new world resembles God's image and how he wanted Earth to look. ... Here Milton uses the sun beams as a symbolism of God's light. ... Milton was referring to Earth as the sphere, then showing Heaven's place to be above it. ... Milton also shows the dark side through Satan as the other part of the lightness a...

• Word Count: 1227
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• Grade Level: High School

Satan: The Unlikely Hero The following references to Paradise Lost' means Book 1 only. ... The result was Paradise Lost'. ... This passionate religious perspective is the inspiration for Paradise Lost'. ... In Paradise Lost' Milton's beliefs are presented through Satan as he commands his army of fallen angels. ... Milton's Paradise Lost' is unsettling to the status quo of his readers because Satan is presented as a hero. ...

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In John Milton's Paradise Lost, the epic poet explores the source of "Man's First disobedience.... However, Milton fleshes out the uncanny parallels between Satan and Man as well as the intriguing connection between Satan and Eve. ... During the time period in which Paradise Lost was written, Calvinism was growing as a major branch of Christianity. ... In Book I of Paradise Lost, Satan plays an interesting role that does not exist in Genesis so as to inquire further on the source of Man's first disobedience. Milton brings us before the Fall of Man to the Fall of Satan. ...

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According to Milton, in his Paradise Lost: Book 9, Eve was also starving, as it was lunch time and Adam was no where to be found to find her some kind of food. ... The Serpent is to blame the most, for in the Bible and in Paradise Lost, he is the first to be cursed, meaning he did the most harm. ...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School