The Purpose Of Satanism In John Milton's Paradise Lost?

Paradise Lost was a controversial poem that appeared in the 17th century by the author John Milton. This epic poem mostly occurred during the beginning of time introducing God, Satan, Adam and Eve. Although Milton’s intention was to educate Christians on God’s reasoning, readers were opposed of the poem. Unlike traditional ways that most people were taught, this poem was an eye opener. Most people were offended and also calling Milton a Satanist. Others on the other hand took insight on what Milton was trying to deliver to the general public. The question most of may be asking is what was the biggest purpose of writing this poem. Milton creation of Paradise Lost was to educate Christians, explain theodicy, and spark conversation. Paradise …show more content…
Theodicy attempts to answer questions of why a good God allow evil amongst on Earth. God created the Earth. God knows everything that’s about to happen before it occurs. This can stand as being very confusing. In Paradise Lost, the corruption of human kind was one of the worst things that could have ever occurred in history. If someone knew this ahead of time, the intentional reaction would be to probably prevent that from happening. God knew ahead of time that evil would take over. Its easy to question why when looking from the outside source. Paradise Lost served as a guide to answer peoples question but also defend God. In Paradise Lost, God was one of the main characters who didn’t really have many characteristics about him. God was just there. God is perfect and is unflawed. He is not human, so there’s no reason to expect any real human like actions from him. He doesn’t have any emotions. He created the Earth and gave demands. God knows what’s going to happen before it even occurs. He observes his people form above. He warns his angels of dangers. Again, it 's not really much to him. Maybe readers were supposed to go off their own beliefs of who or what God