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    Grendel from Beowulf and Satan from Paradise Lost can be both compared and contrasted, shown by the text. Grendel is described as an evil, powerful monster (Beowulf 23). Satan in the story Paradise Lost, is also described as a monster born of cain and the archenemy of God (Beowulf 38-51). While Beowulf’s Grendel and Paradise Lost’s Satan exemplify power, evil, and unsuccessfulness, their tactics prove different. Grendel and Satan can be compared as powerful. We can see this in Grendel through…

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    In chapter four of Paradise Lost, shame plays a major role in Satan’s characterization not only because it brings attention to his disfigured shape, but also to the readers’ pathos. That is, although shame makes Satan and the readers aware of his vileness, it also reminds them both of the alleged-mistreatment by God. For instance, in Satan’s soliloquy, he states, “but other Powers as great [as I]/ Fell not, but stand unshak’n” (Book IV, 63-4). Satan strategically compares himself to other…

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    Free will is defined as the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion. Two texts that I feel deal heavily with free will are Paradise Lost and Oroonoko. In Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve experience the struggle for free will with God, as they go through trials and eventually end up being removed from the Garden of Eden. In Oroonoko, is about an African man who is taken from his home along with his wife, and is forced into slavery. He…

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    The story of a creation cast down to a (both literal and metaphorical) hell is the basis of both John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is of no coincidence that the novel Victor’s monster comes upon and reads is Paradise Lost - from it the monster is able to find some kinship in a fictional tortured soul much like him who lost the safety of their creator’s realm and was thus left to essentially rot alone. The monster’s story echoes in many ways the story of Adam and the…

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    The Arguments in Paradise Lost are prose summaries added to Milton’s text to outline their book’s events, thus making them more easily comprehensible to the reader. The addendums were added after their initial appearance, when the printer requested summaries as a prefix to each book. Paradise Lost requires these Arguments due to its density, numerous allusions, and sheer complexity, under which the narrative can be lost to the reader without guidance. As such, they are integral to understanding…

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    Free will is someone 's ability to do whatever and make choices that change their future in the way they want. The choices we make change our lives and leads us down our own future. In Macbeth and paradise lost, you can see two examples of how free will; you can also see how the powered choice causes two characters to face isolation in their community. In both stories, they are only isolated by their own actions, no one made them follow that path. They alone were responsible for their down fall.…

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    To determine whether or not Satan has free will in “Paradise Lost, first we will broadly define free will to determine a clearer definition of what Milton considers as free will. According to the Oxford Dictionary, free will is “the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion” (Oxford Dictionaries Language Matters). In “Paradise Lost,” because the notion of free will seems to contradict what we consider to be freedom, we will first…

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    ‘Frankenstein intertextuality The novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Satan’s soliloquy from Book 4 of John Milton’s Paradise Lost share ideas regarding the role societal rules play in the expulsion of outsiders. In Frankenstein, the society does not give the monster a chance. The monster decides to adapt a disregard for societal values and begins killing people. In Paradise Lost Satan is outcast from Heaven and decides to become the antithesis of God. He makes Hell his kingdom and…

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    The antagonist Satan in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is undoubtedly the most psychologically complex, dynamic, manipulative, and yet sympathetic character in the history of literature. John Milton paints the reader a portrait of Satan’s character as someone who has several negative characteristics, (such as pride and vengeance) but who also possesses brilliant leadership skills. He is able to give speeches that inspire his followers to carry out evil deeds, but behind closed doors, he is…

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    poems, Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, argue that God gave human beings free will first because He wants human’s obedience that is formed by nature, not force; second because He wants human beings to actively redeem themselves by exercising free will. Milton starts the poem writing “Of man’s first disobedience”(Paradise…

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