Analysis of John Miltons Paradise Lost
Analysis of John Milton's - Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is a monumental epic poem in twelve books of blank verse. Paradise Lost is based on the Bible and other writings available in the Renaissance Era. The Epic begins with Milton's Intentions for "Paradise Lost." As stated in the beginning of the first book of Paradise Lost, Milton's intentions for writing his religious epic are to "assert Eternal Providence / And justify the ways of God to men" (Book I, ll. 25-26). Milton's audience, of course, is a fallen audience, like the narrator of the epic. Therefore, because the audience is essentially flawed there is a danger that we may not read the text as it was supposed to be read. Some may think Satan is the hero of the epic. Others may tend to blame God for allowing the falls to occur. However, both of these readings are thoughtless and are not what Milton has explicitly intended. Therefore, to prevent these prodigious readings, Milton has cleverly interwoven a theme of personal responsibility for one's actions throughout the epic. In this manner, Milton neutralizes God from any unfair blame, exposes Satan for the ill-Deceiver he is, and justifies the falls of both Angel and Man. A careful reading by the post-laps
First and foremost, Milton clears God's supreme being from any suspicion of blame by post-lapsarian readers for "letting" the Angels rebel or Man eat of the forbidden fruit. Milton portrays Satan as a seemingly powerful and noble character who claims to have been wrongfully mistreated by the Almighty. And finally, the Fiend admits that his punishment is just, thus approving God's decision to cast them down from Heaven's high walls. However, an attentive and moral post-lapsarian reader, one of Milton's "fit audience. do I repent or change, Though chang'd in outward luster; that fixt mind And high disdain, from sense of injur'd merit, That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend, And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd That durst dislike his reign, and mee preferring, His utmost power with adverse power oppos'd In the dubious Battle on the Plains of Heav'n, And shook his throne. Bibliography This isn't mine. One of many examples of his twisted speech occurs in the first book, in which Satan says, "Nor. Further in the same soliloquy he says, . Milton skillfully defends God's knowledge in Book III, when God says to His Son, . arian audience reveals the author's intentions. 38-49 In this vital passage, Satan, the ill-Deceiver and father of Sin, admits that he has fallen through his own pride and ambition.
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