He rarely if ever veers from the plot, and will quickly connect any sub plots with the main idea. In his epic poem, Milton includes many major battles. He starts with the battle between heaven and hell. Although hell lost this battle, they are determined to find a way to destroy heaven. They find there way through Satan's plot to use God's creation against him. Satan's idea is to "seduce them (man) to our party that their God/May prove their foe, and with the repenting hand/Abolish his own works. This would surpass/Common revenge, and interrupt his joy." (Milton, 368-371) This is actually the battle that is continued through the poem and makes up the main plot. This poem is also a combination of historical and mythological ideas. Paradise Lost is essentially a more in depth, eloquent version of Genesis. It has many of the mythical aspects such as the creatures of Sin and Death that guard the gates of hell, but also contains much of the history of our world. The poem also contains large amounts of dialogue that makes the piece highly dramatic. Satan has many long monologues in which he brings forth the feeling of an actor delivering a line. .
"O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred .
For what God, after better, worse would build? .
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens .
That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, .
Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, 105 .
In thee concentring all their precious beams .
Of sacred influence! As God in Heaven .
Is center, yet extends to all; so thou, .
Centring, receivest from all those orbs: in thee, .
Not in themselves, all their known virtue appears 110 .
Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth .
Of creatures animate with gradual life .
Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in Man. .
With what delight could I have walked thee round, .
If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange 115 .
Of hill, and valley, rivers, woods, and plains, .
Now land, now sea and shores with forest crowned, .