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. ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School