Discuss the presentation of Hell in Book One of Paradise Lost.
Paradise Lost BOOK 9 John Milton (1667) ! THE ARGUMENT Satan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places.
Milton extends all his powers of language to describe the glory of the Paradise that will soon be lost. Many of Milton’s Puritan contemporaries held the human body to be inherently sinful, but Milton asserts the “naked glory” of Adam and Eve, affirming that nakedness was the proper and holy state of humans before they were corrupted by lust and shame.
Tragedy-Milton describes Paradise Lost as an epic greater than that of his classical predecessors.This is because there is not merely one hero but the whole of mankind. This also means that the tragedy is greater. Aristotle said that tragedy was when somebody great and noble falls from grace thus in book IX the fall of mankind happens.
Throughout the body of this essay, using a close reading of Book 2, lines 657-669 in relation to the entirety of the poem, I will explore the ways in which Milton portrays Satan in accordance to conventions of the hero within the epic genre as well as dispelling any challenges to the idea of Satan as an epic hero in Paradise Lost.
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Paradise Lost Book 12 Summary by John Milton - Read this article to know about Paradise Lost Book 12 Summary by John Milton. Continuation of Adam’s visions, book 12 of Paradise Lost by Milton throws light on the lives of blessed people like Abraham and Jesus who fight the evil forces Nimrod and Israelites to earn God’s favours and blessings.
For AS Component 01, Section 2, students just study one pre-1900 poetry text. There will be one question worth 30 marks. Candidates must respond to an extract from Paradise Lost (either book 9 or 10) which will be printed in the exam paper, and relate it to their wider reading of Paradise Lost books 9 and 10.