According to Neil Forsyth, John Milton's Paradise Lost is "an epic poem about the origin of evil" (Forsyth). ... In trying to decide John Milton's true intentions for the character of Satan, I decided it would help to know a little about Milton himself. John Milton was a practicing Christian ("Who Was John Milton"). ... In conclusion, when writing the character of Satan, Milton creates a character that the reader both admires as a hero while at the same time wants to see fail. ... Kaiter and Sandiuc said it best when they stated, "The question regarding the relationsh...

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My aim is to do an essay to analyze Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. ... John Milton was born in London in 1608 at the height oh the Protestant Reformation in England. ... Milton was a mixed product of his time. ... At the end of the war, milton was imprisoned for a short time for his views. ... In Paradise Lost we have characters who are against authority and the same occurred in Milton's time since, Milton himself was against the king Charles I. ...

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John Milton's Paradise Lost is a work that attempts, in part, to justify the ways of God to mankind. ... Whether or not these ideas coincide with those of Milton, all of them, including Milton's, are incomplete. ... This is exactly the problem that Milton faces. ... While these lines are profound at the time when they are said, they become even more important in terms of coming to understand Satan, in light of his soliloquy in Book IV. ... By creating Satan's character so expertly as to deluded even the reader at times, Milton very precisely, but at the same time very subtly ...

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Meadows 1 John Milton's Paradise Lost is a work that attempts, in part, to justify the ways of God to mankind. ... Whether or not these ideas coincide with those of Milton, all of them, including Milton's, are incomplete. ... This is exactly the problem that Milton faces. ... While these lines are profound at the time when they are said, they become even more important in terms of coming to understand Satan, in light of his soliloquy in Book IV. ... By creating Satan's character so expertly as to deluded even the reader at times, Milton very precisely, but at the same time v...

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John Milton was one of the greatest poets of his age and perhaps of all ages. ... Technically speaking, it must consist of single fable or action which has its beginning, middle and end; covering a long span of time. ... Milton's presents the theme at the very beginning. ... Like all great epics, Milton also begins his epic with an "invocation" to the Muse. ... Milton was also well aware of the fact that an epic poem cannot be composed without a moral. ...

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In writing Paradise Lost, John Milton recognizes this fact and uses a variety of literary techniques to stress the evil in the story over the good. ... Milton depicts the angels as being in a state of eternal joy by singing. ... Milton employs an epic simile to exaggerate the number of fallen angels and hence the amount of evil. ... This name demonstrates the absolute evil of the building as it mocks any sentiment of goodness while at the same time exhibiting the evil within. ... Milton builds up to this epic event by constructing the sentence in a highly symmetrical manner. ...

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In Books 1 and 2 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the action focuses firmly on the fallen angels and, specifically, Satan. ... He displays the intelligence and guts required to lead, but at the same time leads his men into a fight they know they can never win. He is, however, undoubtedly heroic, and with God, nor Adam or Eve so far not mentioned except in passing, and the only words being spoken by the fallen angels (as Books 1 and 2 are all from their point of view) Satan is so far the true hero of John Milton's Paradise Lost. ...

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In 1656 John Milton endeavoured to write the first English epic. ... John Milton was a very religious man, as evidenced by the subject matter of his epic. ... Milton has successfully translated to literature, the most familiar story of all time; that is the moral struggle between good and evil. ... So to counteract this, he adopts the perspective of the most evil character of all time. ... It is the first time for Satan to be presented as heroic. ...

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It is very strange of author John Milton to create such a complex and controversial character. Milton himself was a puritan in Western Europe. ... Each time Satan describes heaven he talks about God abusing his power and named him a tyrant. ... What I assert is that Milton crossed himself up when writing about this. ... He yearns to be in control and have his followers admire him while, at the same time, seeking comfort from him. ...

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By the time of the revolutionary 1790's Blake's work had become more political. ... Bloom claims that Blake was "uninterested in moral evil" (Bloom, 1963: 80), his purpose was more aesthetic as he felt Milton had failed in writing Paradise Lost. ... It is also reminiscent of the fear of the Industrial Revolution which was prevalent in poetry in Blake's time. ...

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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. ... Milton first blames Man, that is to say, Adam and Eve, for the fall, as it is their "mortal taste [that Brought Death into the World" (I, 2-3). ... Milton brings us before the Fall of Man to the Fall of Satan. ...

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The novel Lost Paradise, by John Milton, exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God within the characters God, Satan, Adam, and Eve. ... This truly is remarkable, two novels of different time periods, with characters of startling resemblance. ... Remarkably enough, two novels from way different time period are very much alike in personalities of characters. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to compare Adam and Eve's marriage before and after the Fall from Eden, as written by John Milton in Paradise Lost. Milton does not give Adam and Eve a child-like innocence, so they are not free from "imperfections" that religion says only came after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. ... "And in her looks, which from that time infused/ Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,/ And into all things from her air inspired/ The spirit of love and amorous delight" (p. 2087, ll. 474-77). ... It was the first time he realized that he could love ...

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