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"PARADISE LOST"

1) Fall of man2) Divine justice 3) Free will

Author: John Milton

MAIN CHARACTERS

Year of publication: 1667

Satan:Head of the rebellious angels fallen from Heaven, he is the antagonist of the poem and the origin of sin. He does a mission on Earth that will eventually lead to the fall of Adam and Eve from heaven.

Adam: the first human being, the keeper of the Garden of Eden. He falls into disgrace when Eve convinces him to join her in the sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve: The first woman, was made from a rib taken from Adam’s side. Eat the fruit from the forbidden tree.

• God the Father
• God the Son
• Beelzebub
• Sin and Death
• Gabriel
• Michael

Genre: epic poem

Illustrations by William Blake of Milton’s poem"Paradise Lost"

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Open Debates

Paradise Lost has engaged its readers in a wide range of a critical debates

Collection created in 1807

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If Satan is intriguing to those who think they know more, how would he have appeared to the first two humans?

If hell had already been prepared for the rebels, then did God already know that angels, and then man, would fall?

How could God's foreknowledge not influence events?

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Moral and physical Degradation of Satan

The physical degradation is images to which Satan is compared.

The moral degeneration of Satan is suggested by Milton’s changes in the figures of light and darkness.

1) Satan's first physical attribute is his enormous dimension

• When he was an angel in heaven, Satan, like God and the other angels, was clothed in light.

2) compared to the sun and the moon (but the first clouded and the second during an eclipse)

• Even in the first scenes where it is still majestic is covered with light, but a weaker light.

3) ship with "the rigging and the torn equipment"

• When his rebellion begins we see that he is losing some of his original brightness.

4) first great thief

• In later books, while Satan deliberately continues to choose evil over good, light increasingly gives way to darkness, enveloping it in black.

5) cormorant

7) SNAKE

(low-level animal, lower, shrinking).

6) toad

God knew that angels and then men would sin and fall, but his creation of hell was a consequence of their free will, not predestination. God gave them a chance to make choices, even though He knew some of them would be wrong

God’s foreknowledge does not affect the free will of human beings or angels, although God knew what would happen, he chose to respect their choices and not interfere with their free will. It’s like God has a complete view of the whole picture, but He still lets people make their own decisions. The foreknowledge of God does not imply a predestination of human choices, God, in his omniscience, knows all the possibilities and choices that people can make, but still lets everyone choose freely.

Satan appears to humans as a powerful and fascinating being, able to take different forms and deceive the other characters, his true evil nature emerges through his evil actions and deceptive speeches.