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. Nathaniel Hawthorn and John Milton have described perfectly the unpardonable sin, the sin that once committed will guarantee you a seat next to Satan rather than God, in their writings "Ethan Brand" and "Paradise Lost". ... Taking from what we know about Hawthorne, Milton and the unpardonable sin, it is quite possible to draw a conclusion as to what exactly their ideas of virtue might be. ... Knowing that both Milton...

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