John Milton

bitter tastes fill the mouth while rotting flesh pervades the air and cries of souls in agony pierce the ears. Arguably one of the most famous and descriptive depictions of Hell comes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Hell is described as a dungeon of utter darkness filled with “endless misery” (Milton 414). Milton emphasizes this lack of…

Can the devil be an epic hero? In John Milton's Paradise Lost- the great epic from the English Renaissance, this topic was discussed time and again. Numbers of scholars believe that Paradise lost should be one of the most outstanding products of the Renaissance, especially when talking about the question can the devil be an epic hero? Satan's speech allows us to view him as a heroic character, one who will not accept defeat. Milton's presentation of Satan is intriguing and it can be argued that…

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is known for being an important piece of literature that does not only highlight Milton’s extraordinary poetic abilities, but also consists of very complex and controversial ideologies and arguments. Because Paradise Lost centers itself on the Bible’s book of Genesis, it is safe to say that John Milton is no stranger to the Christian doctrine and certainly does not shy away from theological and poetic license. In fact, Milton asserts that the intention behind his poem…

John Milton’s Paradise Lost, with its literary, theological and cultural complexities, has given rise to feminist and anti-feminist readings of the First Couple, with particular emphasis on Eve. As the creature created from Adam’s rib to be his companion in a world otherwise populated only by beasts, Eve has been read to be a woman made to be subservient to Adam. The reality is far more complicated, as we see that Eve is in fact very eager in establishing her own identity, the pursuit of which…

OF MICE AND MEN Pg.1-41 (40 pages) George Milton and Lennie Small, one small but quick-witted and the other big but not bright, have arrived at their new workplace(ranch) and is ready to work and earn money to buy their “dream place.” In the text of the first two chapters, the author portrayed almost all the characters that appeared with great details of appearance, way of speech, and action. On page two, a general idea of the appearance helped me to make inference of the two protagonists,…

religion on John Milton 's "Paradise Lost" All that Milton has written over half a century pales next to his masterpiece "Paradise Lost." While still a student, the poet decided to create an epic work that would bring fame to England and its literature. Initially, he intended to make the epic of the legendary King Arthur. However, at a time of fierce struggle against the monarchy, his project was impossible to be implemented. The plot of "Paradise Lost" has been taken from the Bible. Milton…

Feudal and Futile: How the Angels vs. Devils Battle is a Parody of Epic Warfare In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, the Biblical account of the fall of man into sin is taken to a new height by Milton’s use of metaphorical storytelling. Using the story of Genesis 3 as a basis, Milton further expounds on the fall of mankind out of God’s graces and into Sin by providing much imagined elaboration and backstory into which he infuses his own moral and spiritual lessons. The battle between God’s…

perspectives. The seventeenth-century author, John Milton, emerged as a crucial and contemporary innovator of the epic genre with his poem Paradise Lost. Milton’s epic is “preeminently a poem about knowing and choosing—for the Miltonic Bard, for his characters, and for the reader” (Lewalski, 460). Principally, Paradise Lost embodies the subject of free will by exemplifying the opposition and incorporation of morality, discernment, and rigorous judgment; Milton truly prompts the “education of…

"With the Prince of Hell Milton reverses the functions and correspndingly the characteristicts, stressing thoseappropriate to an epic antagonist and underplaying though incorporating those of an example of evil." (Kaston 58) Kaston is saying in the poem Milton totally reverses the beliefs which have always been associated with Satan. Everyone has always portrayed Satan as evil and as the villain of everything. But Milton has used him as a hero who was doing something in which…

Although Wordsworth and Dunbar appear to call on their deceased elders, Milton and Douglass respectively, to solve their different woes with society, they instead seek refuge in a plea for living person to solve their modern problems using old wisdom. The speakers in both poems differ in regards to the reason behind their motivation to call their late role models. In the poem “London, 1802,” William Wordsworth agonizes over the idea that morals and creativity in England have deteriorated.…