Milton depicts the angels as being in a state of eternal joy by singing. Nevertheless the angels are not being presented with as much intensity as the devils are. Despite having been cast to hell the fallen angels are still shown to continue on in their old ways as if nothing has happened to them. Milton aptly describes the fallen angels by giving the names that they were worshipped with and a succinct description. Milton employs an epic simile to exaggerate the number of fallen angels and hence the amount of evil. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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The monster wreaks havoc on the Victor's life, "; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval," leaving him with a burden of guilt, just as God loses his angels to Satan, Victor loses his family and friends to the monster. ... If God could so easily order the fallen angels to be pushed out of Heaven, why did he let the war go on for three days? ... Satan moreover does the alike, when he "takes" God's angels. ...

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(l.1-3) When the narrator starts the story, angels have already fallen into the "fiery gulf" that is Hell. ... When God banished Satan and all fallen angels to Hell, they got what they deserved: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed always provokes With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed: Such place Et...

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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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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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