John Milton

happiness. What really defines paradise and when does it end? Playwright Arthur Miller once stated, “Paradise [is]... the absence of any need to choose... action.” Furthermore, he claimed, “Paradise ends [and] innocence ends... where choice begins.” In John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace, Leper, a vulnerable young boy attending the Devon school endures the loss of paradise as he experiences the impacts of World War II. Surrounded by soldiers and war propaganda, Leper is faced with many…

A Psych Analysis of Satan (A psychological evaluation of the character of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost) In every epic tale, there is an equally as epic hero. This is shown in all of the classical stories: Achilles in The Iliad, Odysseus in The Odyssey, and Aeneas in Virgil’s Aeneid. Since John Milton wanted to make an English epic poem in his masterpiece of Paradise Lost, there of course had to be an epic hero. Despite this, it is extremely difficult to pinpoint the protagonist of the…

Frankenstein is an educational novel, one that is constantly analyzed by scholars and critics who attempt to unfold its abstract frame narrative into something concrete and understandable. It is used in high schools and universities around the globe, encouraging young thinkers to delve into its contents and to question the motives of its characters and the complexity of its structure. Although the novel’s primary purpose is to educate, perhaps its most interesting aspect is the education that…

to that of Milton’s Paradise Lost, the creature compares himself and Victor as Satan and God; in the same way Milton brought sympathy to Satan, and allows readers to relate to Satan, the creature is one that the reader can relate to. When the creature says to Victor, “Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to by thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel” (118-9), he alludes to Milton, emphasizing that the creature’s actions—namely, murdering William—are driven by his abandonment and…

Many people imagine the devil as a black mass or a demon with red horns. But what would he appear as if he were to come to earth to speak among humans? In the two short stories “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Man in the Black Suit”, the devils serve as the main antagonists and torment two young men. The devils in these stories use a mix of cunning behavior, dapper appearance, and persuasive dialog, to trick the character into believing there motives and turning them against their own. To convey…

Emotions are not the only tool used by Satan against us. As we continue to look at the story of Job, we see another tool in the arsenal of Satan. Just for the sake of simplicity, let’s call this second tool compound problem. I’m sure you are familiar with those, or at least the phrases “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another”, “when it rains, it pours”, etc. Notice that Satan did not give Job time to focus, or room to breath. He sent problem on top of problem, test after test and trial after…

The word “enemy” often is used to describe the devil or Satan; and the phrase “our father” is referred to as God. “All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy, are to be encouraged”(32). However, in this quote from the book The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, God is the enemy and the devil is referred to as our father below. Although it is a fiction story, the book still gives the readers a way to think about the world’s destruction and recovery through a devil’s aspect (New York, NY:…

The Author Dr. Phillip Zimbardo creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment states how good people can have intentions of becoming evil. He argues that good people can become bad people and that bad people can become good people. In this interesting article the author Dr. Phillip Zimbardo focuses on what really makes people become bad people. He uses Lucifer as an example. Lucifer an angel of God who used to God’s light bearer and favorite angel questions God’s authority and was sent to hell on…

In Cousin Phillis, Hope Farm is portrayed as a pastoral idyll, idealising the virtues of rural life that is unaffected by the implied ills of modern civilisation. Unlike Dickens’s dystopian industrial city of Coketown, it is teeming with natural beauty, “so full of flowers” that they overflow from the court and stretch across the pathway to the back of the house (Gaskell 10; pt.1). When Paul Manning arrives at Hope Farm, he is exposed to “the soft September air” that is “tempered by the warmth…

Leonardo DiCaprio’s dream comes true when he met Pope Francis, on Thursday, to discuss environmental change. Leonardo DiCaprio’s dream comes true when he met Pope Francis, on Thursday, at the Vatican. The meeting was set up by Milutin Gatsby. They discussed environmental changes. Their talk continued for almost 15 minutes. Leonardo along with his father, George DiCaprio, and the global fundraising chair for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Milutin Gatsby, arrived at 11: 15 am. After arriving…