John Milton's Paradise Lost

Introduction

In the production of Satan, Milton is considering with a exceptional difficulty. He is not giving a human intelligence, but an angelic one-a being the nature of which is nearly impossible for the human mind to grasp. Milton simplifies the matter by making religious intelligences more highly refined versions of human intelligence. He is still left with one problem that of introducing flaws in this refined beings. Because of these perfected understanding, these animals should incline solely to good.

'So farwel wish, and with Hope farwel Fear,

Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;

Evil be thou my Good;' (IV, 109-111)

Paradise Lost

In book of Paradise Lost, Milton tells the story of the temptation of Eve. Satan's argument with Eve reflects convictions of Milton. In concluding if to convince Adam or Eve to eat from the tree of information, he does not choose Adam because he has a "higher intellectual" capacity. At the time Milton dwelled, women were advised inferior to men. Milton conspicuously sustained this belief. By up to date measures he would have been considered sexist, by seventeenth years measures he was not. Also in publication nine, in relation to the forbidden tree, Milton emphasizes the great information that can be gained from consuming its crop.

Paradise Lost is arguably the best theological epic poem ever written. Milton uses this poem to not only argue his beliefs about The Bible but also his beliefs for the good of mankind. He fills in all the questionable spaces and detail that The Bible leaves to the imagination with a wonderful moral story. Satan stands out as a great epic hero with his demeanor and oral qualities. Satan, like Milton, has a hidden agenda and the conviction to achieve it. These qualities of Satan can be seen, in one of his many speeches, in Book II Lines 11 through 42.

The Great Consult is a good example of Satan's heroic qualities. In an epic there is a stated purpose in the actions that will take place as well as a hero that will, by any means, accomplish it. The Great Consult is a rally of the troops so to say in which Satan claims power and devises a plan of action. Being that this is Satan and his actions the audience is predisposed to expect evil manipulative actions to be taken. Satan uses his ability to manipulate and speaks in such a way ...