When does a sin become a sin? In Paradise Lost by John Milton, the seven cardinal sins are represented throughout the novel, and are apparent to the reader since the reader is reading paradise lost post-fall (humans are no longer innocent enough to see this text its original form).
The first character to fall in the novel is Satan: his greed and envy caused him to start a rebellion against Gd and his newly appointed Son. Satan mentioned in the time before a head angel would be chosen that “Till pride and worse ambition threw me down warring in heaven against heaven’s matchless king… yet all his good proved ill in me, and wrought but malice; lifted up so high I’sdained subjection, and though one step higher would set me highest… o had his powerful destiny ordained me some inferior angel” (4.40-59), not knowing that the Son was model for the other angels. Satan did not have privy to this knowledge at the time that the decision was made, yet after he obtains this knowledge, he acknowledges his sin of greed and envy.
In this patriarchal society, men were believe to carry the spirit of the child and the woman was only the vessel. Setting the stage for blueprint of reproduction throughout the poem, the act of giving birth which is traditionally thought as feminine is …show more content…
So far in the poem, sections with blood are not as pure: “Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears” (1.392-393). Moloch, a fallen angel, has taken on the symbolic nature of both wrath (war) or greed (sacrifices), after the fall of
The first character to fall in the novel is Satan: his greed and envy caused him to start a rebellion against Gd and his newly appointed Son. Satan mentioned in the time before a head angel would be chosen that “Till pride and worse ambition threw me down warring in heaven against heaven’s matchless king… yet all his good proved ill in me, and wrought but malice; lifted up so high I’sdained subjection, and though one step higher would set me highest… o had his powerful destiny ordained me some inferior angel” (4.40-59), not knowing that the Son was model for the other angels. Satan did not have privy to this knowledge at the time that the decision was made, yet after he obtains this knowledge, he acknowledges his sin of greed and envy.
In this patriarchal society, men were believe to carry the spirit of the child and the woman was only the vessel. Setting the stage for blueprint of reproduction throughout the poem, the act of giving birth which is traditionally thought as feminine is …show more content…
So far in the poem, sections with blood are not as pure: “Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears” (1.392-393). Moloch, a fallen angel, has taken on the symbolic nature of both wrath (war) or greed (sacrifices), after the fall of