From the War in Heaven through the fall of man in Paradise Lost, Satan's weapon at every point is some form of fraud (Anderson, 135). Milton's Paradise Lost explains the biblical story of Adam and Eve. ... This is an excellent example of Satan's use of seduction throughout Paradise Lost. Early in Paradise Lost, Satan establishes himself as a defender of freedom. ... Milton's Paradise Lost demonstrates the thin line between good and evil. ...

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As far 'Paradise Lost' is concerned it action has a unity of texture. ... In this particular sense 'Paradise Lost' even excels the Iliad or Aeneid. ... The characters in 'Paradise Lost' are all creatures of gigantic proportions, of super human heights, even if they are good or evil. Moreover, in 'Paradise Lost' we have human and super human characters, where as God, Christ, Satan the good and evil angels are super human characters. ... 'Paradise Lost' is also not without a moral. ...

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My aim is to do an essay to analyze Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. ... Paradise Lost is considered to be his masterpiece. ... The theme of nature is also important in Paradise Lost. ... The final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking, an image of gain through loss. ... In Paradise Lost we have characters who are against authority and the same occurred in Milton's time since, Milton himself was against the king Charles I. ...

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According to Neil Forsyth, John Milton's Paradise Lost is "an epic poem about the origin of evil" (Forsyth). ... They went on to argue that Paradise Lost's Satan deserves the "tragic hero status" (Kaiter and Sandiuc 453). ... Satan is portrayed this way in Paradise Lost. ... Milton writes the character of Satan in Paradise Lost in such a way that it makes it almost impossible not to like him. ... In the poem Paradise Lost, Milton's Satan crosses over to observe God's new world. ...

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In the text Paradise Lost, Satan is very much a main character who has maybe the most dialogue and character development. ... He lost this battle and God banished Satan as well as his followers out of Heaven forever. ... Most readers of Paradise Lost would agree, after reading the first half of the poem they want to sympathize with Satan. ... His desire to overthrow God came from jealousy, and once he lost that jealousy became more intense and might have turned into hatred. ... The status of whoever is reading Paradise Lost is most likely in a similar boat, not in the sense that they are in s...

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Through the examination of the central characters in The Iliad, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost, one can come to comprehend this transition throughout the epic tradition. ... This is most apparent through the character Achilles in The Iliad. ... In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Milton uses the anti-hero, Satan, as a tool to expose the flaws within England's political system at the time. ... Milton depicts Satan as an eloquent speaker and a logical character who uses manipulation and his ability to reason to move his demonic followers to act immorally, for example, moving them to ...

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The book "Paradise Lost" is quite confusing to read, not only the language, (which I need a dictionary to understand), but also the ideas. ... "Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." ... Now we can have expulsion from Paradise, the Exodus, Roman rule and finally coming and crucifixion of Christ. ... The rest of the characters are G-d and Angels who we cannot really comprehend. ... They were thrown out of the Paradise and they went, went without a word of protest. ...

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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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In Paradise Lost by John Milton, the author brings about the idea of sin and repentance. ... All three of these characters seem to shun God, but like other sinners, they are punished and given the option to repent and seek forgiveness. ... Milton does this to set up the conflict between Adam and God. ... God said, "All thy request for Man, accepted Son (Milton 11.46)." ... While God did give him the chance to be forgiven, he turned away from it, rejecting the only form of repentance God could ask of him. ...

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Instead of focusing on one main character, Eliot refers to every man or any man by using the reference "hollow men." ... The concluding lines of part one make crucial references to Dante's "Divine Comedy": Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As hollow men According to Dante there are a variety of places someone's soul can go after death; people may go directly to Paradise or directly to Hell. ... The fact that he's able to confront Paradise but not go t...

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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). ... - God inquires ...

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Adam and Eve were banished from the paradise of Eden for eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge against God's strict commands. ... In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the title character seeks to recreate the act of creation by making a human being on his own, which becomes known as "The Monster." ... If man was created in God's image, then, after the "Death of God" caused by the Enlightenment, the monster was created in man's image; the monster is then representative of man in the post God era. ... What was God's will? ... Instead, he becomes resentful towards his creato...

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People do not need to be exploited by the church to reach God. ... He represents the notion that God exists within people,. "The worship of God is. ... The antinomian belief is that "...God existed in human beings and sometimes that God had no other existence. ... Bloom claims that Blake was "uninterested in moral evil" (Bloom, 1963: 80), his purpose was more aesthetic as he felt Milton had failed in writing Paradise Lost. ...

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That questions the nature of God. Whereas the last two lines of the The Lamb sound like refrain and the phrase "little lamb" signifies the innocent character of the child and of his creator. ... 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). ... It is full of faith in kind and loving God. ...

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Each character is symbolic of a particular fault or virtue. ... The woman Dante loved, Beatrice, is his guide through paradise. ... His journey's climax is a vision of God. ... In the opening of the poem, Dante finds himself lost in dark woods, which symbolizes his new life of exile. ... Am I purifying my soul not only for myself but for others around me especially God? ...

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This is exactly the case with John Milton's Satan from his poem Paradise Lost. ... (Stein 3) The result of the complexity of his character is that Satan becomes a weak, confused character. ... The heroism in Satan is so evident that it can even help the reader see past the omnipotence of God for a moment. ... What though the field be lost? ... (Rajan, 95) The power that his heroism could possess is soon lost because of its devotion to evil. ...

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Brave New World is a utopia conceived on the basis of species-self-interest masquerading as a universal paradise. ... Evidently, that we can be independent of God. ... But by doing this we have lost a kind of deeper happiness or "true" happiness as John referred to as but more importantly we have lost our sense of individualism, "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"... I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness. ... When it comes to the most human character, it is evident when you read of the character Bernard...

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Bibliotherapy of the Creature I saw a creature, naked, bestial, which, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, and ate of it. I said, "Is it good friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart." - Stephen ...

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Prometheus was known for going against the orders of Zeus, a god of Olympus, and bringing fire to humans. ... The Romantic era stressed the belief that nature is good, since they believed that God could be found in everything on the earth. ... The problem with being a creator was that Frankenstein set himself against God the Creator. ... Frankenstein tried to "play- God and his creation turned against him and the rest of humankind. ... Some of these works include: Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Sorrows of Werther. ...

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Genetics do not play a large role in shaping a person's character and personality. ... Essentially Locke believes that genetics play no role in the development of personality or character. ... From Sorrows of Werter he learns about "despondency and gloom " and begins to question his creation, from Plutarch's Lives he learns "high thoughts and about the violent tendencies of human civilization, and from Paradise Lost he learns to identify himself with Satan, the master of evil and violence. ... He comes to realize that he will never be accepted as a member of human civilization and th...

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Oedipus also is a study in ideology, paralleling itself with texts such as The Waste Land and Paradise Lost. ... The evil character Scar bears much resemblance to Creon, Jocasta's brother who became ruler by default and brought destruction to Thebas. George Lukas's Star Wars also bears resemblance to certain sections of Oedipus when the main character Luke Skywalker realizes that the villain he has been trying to thwart is actually his lost father. ... The character of Oedipus is one to be both feared and revered, as the subject matter is both simultaneously fascinating and atro...

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Consequently everything in the path of this greed became destroyed and lost. ... This belief quickly became an obsession, as seen with the character Gatsby, and so all that people consumed themselves with was to make more money. ... You may fool me but you can't fool God! ...God sees everything ". ... Following a central theme of modernism, this new God watches over his paradise that has been reduced to ash-heaps by modern man. ...

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Introducing students to a variety of ideas and viewpoints in school encourages them to think critically, creatively, and humanely. The copious range of subjects taught in school assist in enforcing all of these attributes in students; however one subject in particular highlights the focus on creati...

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Before Frankenstein created the monster his "thirst for knowledge" was inspiring, and when he moved to Ingolstadt he had already amassed knowledge to build on, but now, after he creates the monster, this scientific discovery caused regret and another zealous task to destroy his previous zenith of discovery, much like the fall from heaven of Lucifer, who tried to topple God from his throne of power, thus becoming the Devil and ruling over the "eternal hell". While Frankenstein is creating the monster, he is effectively playing God, but does he have the right? ... As many people were trying t...

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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote that a lost paradise The world evades us because it becomes itself again" (Sisyphus 14). ... Cottard is an unpopular and socially inept character in The Plague, who out of a guilty conscious and fear of his, unsuccessfully attempts suicide. The advent of the plague marks a transformation in his character, he glories in the safety that the pestilence provides, and even goe...

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