She even states, I dreamed only to love thee and be with thee a little time, and so let thee pass away, leaving but thine image in mine heart. ... Baglioni states, 'He would sacrifice human life, his own among the rest, or whatever else was dearest to him, for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the great heap of his accumulated knowledge.' ... In both accounts, they try to create the illusion that Rappiccini/God is acting on his own interests. ...

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There are many questions in life. Some questions that a person will encounter will by easy to answer. Other questions will take more time, and some may never be answered at all. One such question concerns the creation of evil. From whence did evil come from? Is evil something that exists simply bec...

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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge. ... Satan does compliment her beauty extravagantly with phrases such as "Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair,/ Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine/ By gift, and thy Celestial Beauty adore/ With ravishment beheld - (IX, 538-541). ... As she admits, she would have remained staring at her own reflection had God not pulled her away. ... Milton clearly translates his own personal philosophies into his epic by these points...

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