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. ... The overall poem itself is labeled as epic. ... Whether Satan is or is not a hero in this poem is debatable. It would be accustomed to consider God as the hero in the poem, but with the way Milton presented God in the poem it was not accurate to think this all the way. ... Overall, the plot of the poem was the downfall of man and how it happened. ...

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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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Satan: The Unlikely Hero The following references to Paradise Lost' means Book 1 only. ... The result was Paradise Lost'. ... This passionate religious perspective is the inspiration for Paradise Lost'. ... In Paradise Lost' Milton's beliefs are presented through Satan as he commands his army of fallen angels. ... Milton's Paradise Lost' is unsettling to the status quo of his readers because Satan is presented as a hero. ...

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Many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. ... Such is the case with the poems The Lamb and The Tyger. ... This poem is built on rhetoric questions, which make the poem sound more dynamic and as controversial as the nature of the human soul. ... So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. ... "The pastoral paradise of The Lamb is juxtaposed with the industrial furnace of The Tyger" (Vines 117). ...

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This is exactly the case with John Milton's Satan from his poem Paradise Lost. ... What though the field be lost? ... He knows that the field is lost, and that he cannot win, but with his unconquerable will and his courage he finds the power to fight on. ... When he realizes that the fight has been lost, while he does decided to fight on, he decides to fight through underhanded trickery and deceit. ... (Rajan, 95) The power that his heroism could possess is soon lost because of its devotion to evil. ...

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That said, modern readers of Milton's Paradise Lost may be inclined to observe Satan's government in Hell as ideal - everyone has an opportunity to speak his piece, and votes are taken when decisions are called for. ... However, twentieth century wisdom does not apply to Paradise Lost, as Milton takes great pains to associate God's council with holiness, and Satan's with wickedness. ... In it, he makes the transition from "utter and middle darkness of Chaos and eternal Night- to the "holy light- and "Eternal coeternal beam- (Paradise Lost, Book III). ...

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