He tells him that he feels high disdain against the maker of heaven. Satan speaks to his closest associate Beelzebub. In this condition lie the fallen angels, three times as far from the light of heavens as the earth is from the utmost poles of universe.
PARADISE LOST BY JOHN MILTON FULL
It is full of visions of sorrow and despair. Milton gives us the picture of hell partly through our own eyes and partly through Satan’s eyes. He now lay outstretched upon a fiery lake. He was confused and stunned from the fall from heaven. Although he was immortal, Satan suffered. Others rebel angels also fell down into the deepest pits of hell where they were to suffer everlasting punishment. Because of his pride and ambition to rise above God, Satan waged an impious war in heaven. In his envy and revenge he beguiled the mother of mankind Eve. The infernal serpent was cause of their fall. Join our fb group: Library of English Literature and Linguistics by Arshad Mehmood. They lived happily in heaven with only one restriction on them. Milton’s story begins with asking the reason why Adam and Eve our parents first fell from heaven and who reduced them to their revolt. His purpose is to justify the ways of God to men. He calls upon Muse and says that he is going to write a poem on a very noble subject as compared to ancient poets. He seeks the support of Muse from the mount of Sinai. The poet seeks the help of heavenly Muse and describes the subject of poem: man’s first disobedience to God in eating the forbidden fruit and consequently the fall of man. The poem opens with an invocation to heavenly Muse (without the use of classical Greek mythology). He creates a world that is timeless and place less. He creates a universe which is past, present and future at the same time. The poet uses his knowledge and produces a masterpiece. But Milton’s individuality is reflected in this poetry. The structure and tragic tone of poem resembles Homer and Virgil.
The Bible, The Talmud and church fathers contributed to the story of Paradise Lost. Paradise lost is a rich mixture of knowledge. But eventually, he choosed a wide subject to write on the fall of Adam and Eve and fall of human race through them. During the years of political change he had been looking for a suitable subject and for a little while he even considered the idea of writing on an Authoritian legend. Milton had been planning to write it for years. Paradise lost is a great literary work of Milton.
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