Essays on Paradise Lost

The Scripture of Genesis laid down the framework for seventeenth century moral guidelines. Of these morals, the focus on the Creation story and the relationship between Adam and Eve gave authority to the definition of marriage, thus establishing a hierarchy within the union between husband…

In his apostrophe to earth, lines 99-179, does Satan seem more human than diabolical? Consider his characterisation, the effects of language, poetic technique and imagery. Satan likes to confuse people. Evil incarnate, he yet appeals to that side of human nature that rebels against reason,…

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an epic poem written in blank verse in sixteen sixty-seven. The poem which is based upon the biblical tale of Genesis, tackles the creation, temptation and fall of Adam and Eve. In the edition’s preface Milton declared that the aim…

In this essay we shall be discussing how Milton deals with the problems of both evil and temptation within Paradise Lost, ‘it focuses on God as a sign for authority and the status quo to Satan as a sign for the Other.’ . The time…