... ; (Kaiter, and Sandiuc 452). Kaiter and Sandiuc's research shows that Satan's portrayal as pure evil is not successful and that many believe that Satan is superior to Milton's God. (Kaiter and Sandiuc 452). They went on to argue that Paradise Lost's Satan deserves the "tragic hero status" (Kaiter and Sandiuc 453). They also state "in the Greek tradition, the ... ability to be whoever he wants to be in any given situation and Milton portrays this trait flawlessly. In trying to decide John Milton's true intentions for the character of Satan, I decided it would help to know a little about M...

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... not necessarily be good. It is quite easy to posses many heroic qualities and still be evil at the base. This is exactly the case with John Milton's Satan from his poem Paradise Lost. A hero is generally defined as a great warrior, who shows great courage or the main male character in ... daring and having impressive size, power, or affect. Satan certainly fulfills each of these requirements to be a hero. Along with these heroic qualities that Milton portrays in Satan, he also gives Satan many of the characteristics of a villain. These evil attributes don't necessarily make him a true vi...

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... , 2001 Andrew Smith Every single person in the history of the world has at one time or another been confronted by the question of where they belong in the world. It was not always that difficult for some to place others however. In Paradise Lost, Book IX, John Milton claimed that women were subordinate and inferior to man, and Eve precipitated both her ... happy and successful. Not only is the woman's job to tend house, but also she is also incapable of protecting herself. When Eve asks to leave Adam's side to work on her own, he first denies her saying that the wife,where danger or dish...

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... the same? And what of all-knowing and all-knowing God, the Creator of all things? Is he not the root of Man's downfall? In John Milton's Paradise Lost, the epic poet explores the source of "Man's First disobedience." Looking at the dialogues and narrative in specifically Book I and ... Book IV, we see that the one to blame is ambiguous. However, Milton fleshes out the uncanny parallels between Satan and Man as well as the intriguing connection between Satan and Eve. Looking at the similarities, we can ... as the first Man to tempt. Furthermore, It is through the parallels between Satan...

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... , he and his followers will be surrounded by "war and violence, hate and rage, forever. Since he began it, he will be forced to continue in it for eternity," "In John Milton's Paradise Lost, he tells of Satan's banishment from Heaven. He and his followers have plotted war against God and are now doomed to suffer in the fiery pits of hell ... in Satan is the horrible co-existence of a subtle and incessant intellectual activity with an incapacity to understand anything." Although the statement "Evil be thou my Good," makes no sense on the surface, it has a symbolic meaning as an expression...

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... sin that led to future sins. This original sin must be emphasized by writers to depict the evil involved in it. In writing Paradise Lost, John Milton recognizes this fact and uses a variety of literary techniques to stress the evil in the story over the good. The techniques used include a series ... 129-130, 163-165). Satan is described at length in an epic simile that compares his great size to that of mythical figures. This simile drags on for sixteen lines of direct comparison. This comparison to mythical figures makes the reader think more about the subject therefore invoking more t...

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... purpose of this paper is to compare Adam and Eve's marriage before and after the Fall from Eden, as written by John Milton in Paradise Lost. Milton does not give Adam and Eve a child-like innocence, so they are not free from "imperfections" that religion says only ... "What though seest,/ What there thou seest fair creature is thyself" (p. 2013, ll. 266-70). "And in her looks, which from that time infused/ Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,/ And into all things from her air inspired/ The spirit of love and amorous delight" (p. 2087, ll. 474 ... And meek surrender, half embracing le...

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... Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, deals with a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who embodies a creature, who eventually wreaks havoc on his life. The novel Lost Paradise, by John Milton, exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God within the characters God, Satan, Adam, and Eve. Victor ... dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." Victor rejects the monster, similar to God's disgust with Satan's pride. The monster wreaks havoc on the Victor's life, "; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval," leaving him with a burden of...

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