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Paradise lost
by GTrevisan - (2011-05-26)
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 Paradise lost

 

The Paradise Lost is about men's free will and disobedience. It is written in blank verse it has got a hero, Satan. Paradise Lost contains many classical and Renaissance epic conceits: it concerns heavenly and earthly beings and the interactions between them.

Milton incorporates paganism, classical mythology, and Christianity into the poem. it uses conventions such as epic similes, and invocations to a muse

The poem concerns the biblic story of the fall of: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen archangel Satanand their expulsion from the Garden of eden.

  • Satan has lost the paradise his power was limited and later he rebelled to God. e tried to raise a war against the monarchy of God with his host of rebel angels but all was in vain. God cast him down to dwell in a fiery inferno where "rest can never dwell, hope never comes, and torture is without end"  He chose to make a hell for himself wherever he went. Freedom from authority and revenge were two of his beliefs.
  • Men and women love power as Satan.
  • Adam and Eve ate the apple that was the symbol of knowledge, in the Hebrew language this eans have a sexual relationship. they were both punished and experienced pain and earthly torment that Satan faces on a daily bases.