As John Milton writes the poem, Paradise Lost, he uses literary devices such as similes, symbolism, and motifs and to make Satan seem like a self-deceiver and self-condemner throughout his speech in lines 32-79 within book four. ... Within this simile, Milton shows how the new world resembles God's image and how he wanted Earth to look. ... Here Milton uses the sun beams as a symbolism of God's light. ... Milton was referring to Earth as the sphere, then showing Heaven's place to be above it. ... Milton also shows the dark side through Satan as the other part of the lightness a...

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Despair In John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, we are given a beautiful interpretation of the story of Genesis. ... In Paradise Lost, Satan is a complex character which undergoes much change and turmoil throughout his journey to destroy mankind. ... All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good- (IV, 108-110). ... The climatic point in Paradise Lost or even Genesis is the moment in which both Adam and Eve bite into the forbidden fruit. ... While Adam and Eve have lost their utopian paradise they will journey out into a new world with hopes to save mankind from their sins. ...

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