In Books 1 and 2 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the action focuses firmly on the fallen angels and, specifically, Satan. ... Satan is an "arch angel ruined", a fallen angel. Once called Lucifer, he was one of the most powerful angels in Heaven. Now he is the leader of the fallen, and he burns in eternal pain in the depths of Hell, a place of pure torture created by God before the rebellion, to hold all those that followed Satan. ... 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 th...

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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. This epic deals with temptations and making choices under pressure. Epics deal...

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Satan's essence is embodied in the fact that he is a fallen angel. ... Meadows 3 These lines, spoken by Beëlzebub, at the instruction of Satan, close the argument among the fallen angels as to what course of action they should take, now that they reside in Hell. ...

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Satan's essence is embodied in the fact that he is a fallen angel. ... Meadows 3 These lines, spoken by Beëlzebub, at the instruction of Satan, close the argument among the fallen angels as to what course of action they should take, now that they reside in Hell. ...

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In Dante's, Inferno,. Looking at the "poetic justice" of the inferno the reader has to think why are some serious sins today like murder less punishable than less serious sins like fraud. But before Dante descends into the many levels of hell we are introduced to Purgatory, where you your sins ...

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Having fallen from God's graces, the human race has ever since quested after ways to claim our righteous seat next to God, in essence reclaiming our once-lost immortality. ... Satan, with the help of his rebel angels "aspired to set himself in glory above his peers" while Ethan Brand did the same and was tormented with a life of having to "endure the kind contact with low and vulgar modes of thought and feeling" that he despised. ...

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