![]() Satan targets Eve, so when Gabriel and his angels come to Paradise in search of the intruder, Satan is found squatting next to her, whispering into her ear. He overhears them talking of God's forbiddance to taste the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and he plots to make Man break the law of God. Satan sneaks into Paradise, and by adopting the shapes of its various animals, observes Adam and Eve. Uriel takes the matter to Gabriel and informs him of the malevolent spirit in the world of Man, Gabriel promises to find the culprit before the next morn. As he goes through these series of malevolent thoughts, he unknowingly alters his form, and Uriel, who had been observing the Cherub that had stopped him, notices the change. Satan descends to Earth, he is struck by the beauty of its creation and becomes racked with doubt, but ultimately he resolves to continue working his evil machinations. God showers praise on his Son and asks all the angelic choirs to sing hymns in his praise. He could be rescued from the dart of Death by the sacrifice of one heavenly power, none of the angels volunteer to become mortal, none but the Son of God. However, Man would have to be punished for his disobedience and so would experience Death. In Heaven, God foresees the entry of Satan into Earth, and the eventual disobedience of Man, but he looks on Man with mercy for unlike Satan and his ilk, Man did not go astray on his own, but was rather led astray. ![]() Satan promises both of them free reign in the world that he would corrupt, he enters the realm of Chaos, and with the help of the sovereign of that realm finds Earth. ![]() Satan journeys out of Hell by striking a deal with his spawn, Sin, and Death, who were charged to keep the gates of hell locked. He rose and bore the responsibility of the task, and was hailed by the devils as an equal to the King of Heaven. None of the devils in the room volunteered, none but Satan. He tells them of a world that God created with a favored race called Man, but to find the place, and to attempt to derail the plans of God was a bold task. Moloch proposes a continued war, Belial counsels Peace, Mammon recommends the development of Hell to rival Heaven, and Beelzebub proposes the corruption of man. All the fallen angels of repute enter the palace, Satan begins by loudly proclaiming that they had not yet been completely defeated, and he asks his officers to present their thoughts. They become alert at the sound of their commander and fly to the shore, there they collect themselves into companies, and a group of the devils hollows out a hill and creates a palace for their meeting, and so is Pandemonium built. On the shores of the lake, he calls to his fallen angels, who are strewn across the desolate lake in dazedness. He rouses himself from his prison on a lake of fire, held down with adamantine chains, that are then undone by the will of God. It begins from the fall of Satan, who has been smitten to Hell along with a host of fallen angels. John Milon's Paradise lost is an epic based on the Book of Genesis. There were other practical limitations as well, a reading of the manuscript for the play reveals that a lot of the great action from the poem doesn't take place on stage in the play. One concern with the play would certainly have been the nakedness of Adam, and Eve, which could never have been possible on stage. In the 1640s Milton had been writing a play by the name of Adam Unparadised, and it is possible that he chose to shift that story into Epic format once he realized the limitations of the play format. There are certain portions of this poem that are adopted from a tragedy that Milton had been writing at the same time. He had declared that he would write an epic when he was nineteen but only began to write Paradise lost when he was in his fifties. It can be argued that he was late in many respects, most importantly it is his lateness that he refers to in the invocation. He had for the longest time thought to write of one of the kings of England, and thought to have honed in on King Arthur, but later abandoned that plan. He had yet to decide the subject of this great poem when he first told of his plans, and in the invocation for the ninth book mentions that he was late in choosing the subject of his poem. He had from a very young age wished to write an important poem that would be hailed by even the future generations. John Milton was a politician and a poet of British origin, he had been a promising student from a young age, his skill in Latin was unrivaled and caused him to gain an important office in the government during the rule of the republic.
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