Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate....

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Johnson's 250th birthday, Mary Lascelles concludes that 'London has not the brilliance of its original, because it lacks the lightening flash of its irony'.2 Lascelles is arguably right to find irony in Juvenal's 'Satire III', and in sensing none in London, she aligns herself with the vast majority of those who have published their views on the poem. ... On a simple level it acts as a foil to heighten the sense of dire misery within the 'curs'd walls' of London (l. 37), yet, it can also be seen as a utopian dream; a 'vanity of human wishes&...

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