Ingles Paradise Lost
The hell is the place farthest and profoundest. Satan asks hell to receive his new guest (Satan and the other fallen angels), which are person who has a beautiful mind (the same of God). Their mind cannot be change by the place or by the time where there are,so Satan can change heaven into hell and hell into heaven. The hell is a place so ugly and terrible that nobody wants stay here and God cannot sent away them from here and so in hell they can reign. Satan say that is better reign in hell that be servant in heaven; he tell to the other fallen angels to collect all their energy and look for the other fallen angels and share with them whatever thereis in this place.
Satan try to recompose them into an army, into a new society to see what they can do in hell. Satan is not discourages but he shows a lot of courageous and recover all his energy. He wants to recreate a society in hell.
Satan has the typical features of an epic hero: has noble origin (is an angel); has great courage; great energy and reason; he does not give up and fight tillthe end; he also has a great passion, he is a lover of freedom and he reflects Milton himself because Milton love to be free too.
After Satan soliloquy another fallen angels called Beelzebub answers to Satan. He calls summon the other fallen angels who are frightened in hell. Satan’s firm voice is as a sign in battle for the other fallen angels; with Satan’s voice they will soon resume theircourage and revive (came back to life) because now they are shocked, terrified and prostrated in hell, which is represented as a big lake of fire, because of the terrible fall (of 9 days and 9 nights).
Milton, the greatest writer of his age, lives the turbulence of his era being involved in the English Civil War, supporting Cromwell and devoting his entire work to the cause of Puritans. His greatestwork, Paradise Lost, is the result of the meditations on the Bible of Milton, Renaissance scholar and Puritan poet. The subject matter is biblical: man loses the joys of Paradise through eating the forbidden fruit. Paradise is lost and sin and death become part of the human condition. Paradise Lost is also a great classical epic and his inspiration came from Gerusalemme Liberata, Aeneid and Ilyad.In Paradise Lost many elements drawn from the epic can be found: the invocation to the Muse, the description of a war, the heroes, the supernatural elements and the highly refined language. Other elements contribute to the grandness of his style, like the use of many Latinate forms. A feature of his style is inversion: he writes the adjective after the noun. He often repeats a phrase or word tolink these long sentences. Milton chooses words, not just for their meaning, but also for the beauty of their sound.
Satan is taken to be one of the most attractive characters of Paradise Lost. At the start, he is an epic hero, the incarnation of beauty fallen from grace and of great courage. But, later, the figure of Satan becomes less evident and, from being a great leader, he becomes a vile...
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