... the rest of the (natural) world brings about his realisation of the sin he has committed and from this moment a change in him begins. He has made his first step through love towards absolution: he may have lost one family but in establishing his new relationship with Nature he has found a new one. The Prisoner also turns to nature. He admires everything that ... friendship with the spiders and mice with which he shares his cell and he sees himself as "the monarch of each race" following the example of Milton's Satan ("Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven", Paradise Lost Book I; ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate