Good Vs. Evil In John Milton's Paradise Lost

In Paradise Lost, John Milton writes an epic that tells the ever captivating tale of good versus evil from where he believes is the beginning, the Garden of Eden. To do this however, Milton first lays out what had transpired before God’s creation of the Earth or of Adam and Eve to the fall of Satan and the angles who chose to follow him. In this Milton presents the idea that evil had been present before the creation of the world in Satan and by his fallen followers. The parallel of the evil in Satan and the good in God seems to provide the notion that nothing can be created out of evil, evil can only copy or mirror that which is good. Even from the beginning of the epic, the reader sees that everything presented about Hell is in opposition of what is presented about Heaven. Hell is “darkness visible…regions of sorrow, doleful shades were peace and rest can never dwell…as far removed from God and light of Heav’n” (1.63, 65-66, 72-73). While Heaven’s description has a more favorable appeal as being “happy realms of light” with God personified as celestial Light, place were peace and rest are in abundance (1.85). Just from these few descriptive words, the two different …show more content…
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