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Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within - Paper

Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within

Milton's Satan continues to fascinate critics largely because he is so
complex than the Devil of the Christian tradition appears. Satan's
rebelliousness, his seeking of transcendence, his capacity for action,
particularly unconventional action, endeared him to certain types of minds,
even if their viewpoint might be considered theologically misleading.
Milton often follows the road of intellectual definition for his characters,
of reasoning demonstration. This serves well his theological and
intellectual cohesiveness. However, when his thought becomes more
conceptual rather than metaphoric, it falls trap to its own special kind of
static imprisonment. Most of the images in Paradise Lost, ...

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Because of these refined
intelligence, these creatures should incline solely to good.

"So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,
Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good;"
(IV, 109-111)

In this intensely dramatic statement, Satan renounces everything that's
good. His is not a lack of intelligence, or weakness of character, very
simply an acceptance of evil. It almost justifies C. S. Lewis' observation.
"What we see in Satan is the horrible co-existence of a subtle and
incessant intellectual activity with an incapacity to understand anything."

Although the statement "Evil be thou my Good," makes no sense on the
surface, it has a symbolic meaning as an expression of Satan's will to
reject the hierarchy of values set before him. In doing so he creates an
illusory world that reflects his adopted values, which he accepts as
reality. His reality is based on hatred. His hatred makes him
psychologically dependant on that he hates, thus making it ...

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Added: 4/4/2005 12:12:06 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
Words: 725
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