Paradise
Lost
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John Milton
‘Paradise lost’ is
an epic poem written by john Milton. Paradise lost written in blank verse and
first published in 1667. The poem is based on the episode ‘Genesis’ from the
Bible. The Bible is the “God-centric” and Milton’s Paradise Lost is “Human-centric”.
As it was a time of Renaissance, the world was changing its perspective.
The poem narrates the episode in which Adam
and Eve lost the Eden garden and cursed by God. The difference is in the
narrative style and character’s sense of questioning. Milton has presented Eve
with the power of questioning. Serpent or we can say Satan as a lover of Eve
but he also changes his mind from love to revenge.
Eve was tempted by
Satan to eat the fruit, but she was not easily tempted. After along question
answer and arguments she was ready to eat the fruit. Her way of thinking in the
book is rational. In ‘Genesis’ Adam was convinced by Eve but in Milton’s book
he was driven by the emotion of love,
"Should
God create another Eve, and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart. No, no! I feel
The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine
never shall be parted, bliss or woe."
(Book IX, Paradise Lost)
What was the sin? The sin was disobedience of God.
If the fruit was prohibited why the tree was there?
Why Satan easily entered in the pace of God’s Eden garden? Why God has not protected them? Why the curse was not only for Adam and Eve but also their children which is indirectly whole human race?
What was important fruit, disobedience or suffering of Adam and Eve? How God can be so cruel to his children?
The major question is of freedom of human being, as Eve asked,
If inferior, Who is Free?
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