Paradise Lost

Introduction

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674), is the most important epic poem in English literature. It tells the story of hell, the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan, the fall and the Expulsion from the Garden of Heaven. The first book first briefly describes the whole subject, the disobedience of man, and after that the loss of Paradise, when man placed. The book then talks about the first cause of the fall of man, the serpent; or rather, Satan in the serpent, who, rebelling against God and drawing on his side many legions of angels, was, by the command God, cast down from heaven with his band in the formidable abyss (Harding, 2007, 90-136).

Compare and Contrast

The Creation and Exile of Mankind: Reason

Milton wrote Paradise Lost when his life was extremely unstable, suffering from blindness. Paradise Lost presents the author's views in an allegoric scriptural form, and the reader will easily discern its basic idea, the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for freedom.

Recent critics have analyzed the Sin and Death episode in the book of Paradise Lost in terms of its allusions, to and revisions of Ovid, Spenser, and Scripture; and have traditionally understood the episode as dramatizing Milton's critique of allegory. They have thus tended to isolate the episode from the rest of the poem. In contrast, early readers of Milton viewed Sin and Death as examples of the grandeur or sublimes of Paradise Lost as a whole, at the same time that they noted Milton's transgressions of the generic constraints of epic in this episode.

The poem begins in Hell, home of the demons, which lies dejected by the loss to the angelic hosts. Satan, the rebel hero, stands as a voice of thunder in the bleak landscape, striking and encouraging their brothers in ...