Satan: The Unlikely Hero The following references to Paradise Lost' means Book 1 only. ... The result was Paradise Lost'. ... This passionate religious perspective is the inspiration for Paradise Lost'. ... In Paradise Lost' Milton's beliefs are presented through Satan as he commands his army of fallen angels. ... Milton's Paradise Lost' is unsettling to the status quo of his readers because Satan is presented as a hero. ...

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According to this God's judgment, the soul goes either into a "hell " or into paradise. ... There are people in the modern society who do not believe in God, and these people are called humanists. ... It is interesting that the author even thought about people who do not believe in God and accept Christ. ... Dante is guided by the Roman poet Virgil in these circles who supported the narrator and explained something to him. ... This sculpture depicts the scene of the "Inferno"" in Canto III when the protagonist and Virgil came to the Gate of Hell where different statements and imperatives ...

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Many authors represented this "new life, but none better than Miguel De Cervantes and John Milton who both ironically wrote in two very different styles. ... Most of the works mentioned were books of chivalry, which is the protagonist's obsession throughout the novel. ... Cervantes arranges and uses words that convey a humorous suggestion about the protagonist who is very much insane. ... This might have affected the way the diction is used, because Starkie may have lost or changed the style of the diction that is being used. ... This idea is in a contrast to Milton's most famous...

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Lilliputians are chosen to public office by who can "rope dance" the best. ... Swift uses a small number of pages to describe his character Gulliver because the reputation of the protagonist in the reader's eyes is important to his evaluation of the book. ... The Houyhnhnms are thoroughly rational creatures who look like horses. He also runs into a race of creatures named the Yahoos who are have lost all powers of reason except a low cunning by which they further their brutal appetites and look unmistakably human (Gulliver 601). ... The Houyhnhnms evict him from their paradise as they ...

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He incorporated into his protagonist, Samuel Cramer, many of his personal beliefs and feelings. ... Baudelaire was among few poets who loved the city, regardless of how corrupt it was. ... A vast amount of his poetry refers to some sort of lost paradise. ... He further demonstrated this notion in the first poem of Les fleurs du mal, entitled Au lecteur, where he writes "C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent", or simply, "It is the devil who holds the strings that move us" [2 (pp 35-57)]. ... A poet who was unafraid to challenge the moral and social standards of his tim...

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Woolf's narration of Clarissa Dalloway's day begins with her protagonist's preparations for a party she is holding at her house that evening, and it ends as the party is finished. ... Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes, gives the most amusing luncheons, which is very important for the woman from the high society.) ... "Masterly and dry and desolate he looked- "Gently the yellow curtain with all the birds of Paradise blew out and it seemed as if there were a flight of wings into the room-) Repetitions and alliterations appear qui...

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One such myth that has undergone this change is that of King Oedipus, the youth who had slain his father and married to his mother. ... Oedipus also is a study in ideology, paralleling itself with texts such as The Waste Land and Paradise Lost. ... The evil character Scar bears much resemblance to Creon, Jocasta's brother who became ruler by default and brought destruction to Thebas. ... These hidden agenda's are also the theme of many modern day literature and media productions, where the audience is aware of a characters heritage yet the protagonists remain oblivious. ... Sup...

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This runs parallel with Sarah Peter's critique of Dracula, who states that 'the most significant reason for the omission of the religious and superstitious elements of the gothic novel... is the theme of imminent and inevitable death.'6 The theme of temptation continues as the vampirized Lucy is described, 'The face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile... and with a languorous, voluptuous grace... there was something diabolically sweet in her tones'7. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters a...

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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote that a lost paradise The world evades us because it becomes itself again" (Sisyphus 14). ... Cottard is an unpopular and socially inept character in The Plague, who out of a guilty conscious and fear of his, unsuccessfully attempts suicide. ... The narrator of The Plague Doctor Rieux, who is also Camus voice, differs in opinion of the ordinary people during the plague. .....

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The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... This practice of necromancy is scary and the character is presented as the villain of the play who engages in occult forces and uses dreadful supernatural practices. ... In the opening soliloquy, Richard I...

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Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. ... The "Jazz Age," which Fitzgerald is known for naming, reeks with empty, bored people who can never love or trust. ... The title suggests the protagonists' movement from the pampered life of the beautiful to the suffering of the damned. ... He is not the last character who will loose all and end up either dead or wanting to be. ... Fitzgerald sympathizes with his two protagonists. ...

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" When he learns what has happened on the island, the officer is reproachful: how could this group of boys, he asks-and English boys at that-have lost all reverence for the rules of civilization in so short a time? ... Now, when all he can do is struggle to stay alive as long as possible, a deus ex machina (an improbable or unexpected device or character that suddenly appears to resolve a situation) appears, at the last possible moment, in the form of the naval officer who brings the boys back to the world of law, order, and society. ... Others approached Lord of the Flies through the t...

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