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Analysis of Paradise Lost
Analysis of the title:
Reading the title I think it may speak about a person that believes himself a sovereign and he prefers Hell to Heaven, because he can be a sovereign in Hell, but he was only a serve in Heaven.
Analysis of the extract:
The extract starts with a question of the lost Arch Angel: who is the main character and he asks himself if that is the Region, the Soil, the Clime and the seat that they must change for the celestial light (““Is this the Region, this the Soil , the Clime”, Said then the lost Arch Angel , “this the seat That we must change for Heav’n,”).
He also answers himself this is right, because God is the sovereign and he can order to everyone what he wants, because he is the sovereign, so he can gives orders to him too, because he is supreme above his equals (“What shal l be right: farthest from him is best Whom reason had equal led, force had made supreme above his equals”).
After that he decides to say goodbye to the place of happy fields and says hello to the new infernal place (“Farewell happy fields, where joy for ever dwells! hail horrors! Hail Infernal world”). Finally he says that a mind doesn't changed even if he changes place (“A mind not to be changed by place or time”).
The speaking voice, Satan, the ex arch angel, in the extract describes Heaven and Hell. He describes them like two places that have more differences. As a matter of fact he describes Paradise saying that there are happy fields in it, so it is a comfortable place. Instead he describes Hell like a place of horrors, terror.. The second place, the Hell, is Satan's invention because , in the text, he says that he no longer wants to serve somebody (God) in Heaven, but he wants to reign, so now he can reign in another place, different from Heaven. I think he creates a place more different from Paradise because he hates Heaven and he wants to reign an antagonist country of the Heaven.