	Looking at John Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ we can see that there are the two ideas of damnation and salvation through reconciliation present in the characters of Satan and Adam & Eve‚ respectively. It is Satan’s sin of pride that first causes him to fall from God’s grace and into the bowels of hell. This same pride is also what keeps him from being able to be reconciled to God‚ and instead‚ leads him to buy into his own idea of saving himself. With Adam & Eve‚ we see that although they
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In the story “Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight” many valuable lessons can be learned from Sir Gawaine‚ the people he meets‚ and his journey throughout this story. Some of the lessons found in this text include the nature of chivalry‚ and the importance of one being generous‚ pious‚ and courteous of others. While those lessons are involved in many aspects of this story‚ the most important lesson Sir Gawaine teaches us‚ and that the author brings to light‚ is that honesty is always the best policy
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One of Milton’s strengths used in his epic Paradise Lost is his vivid imagery. He uses imagery not only for visual impact but also for reinforcing themes and characterization. Many of the images used pertain to light and dark‚ which help to convey his main purpose of justifying the ways of God to man and illustrating Hell. Milton justifies the ways of God to man all throughout his story. Line twenty-two explains to man that God can make the darkness in one’s life go away by bringing "light" to
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Paradise Lost Q. “Adam’s disobedience surpasses the virtue of most fallen men.” Do you agree‚ or do you find Adam a weak character? Adam and Eve‚ the first man and the first woman‚ the predecessors of man‚ are the only two human beings in the epic poem of Milton. Before their fall from the paradise‚ they are as remote from any known human beings as any being of this world from the other world. They live a life of idyllic happiness. In the Garden of Eden‚ they have little to do but to lop and
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Paradise Lost While watching the HBO Documentary “Paradise Lost”‚ I saw the horrific murder cases of three second grade boys at West Memphis Arkansas. The suspected murderers were Jessie Misskelley‚ Jr.‚ Jason Baldwin‚ and Damien Echols‚ their ages were seventeen‚ sixteen‚ and eighteen. As a motive for the murders the prosecution believed they were performed as a satanic ritual. After an intense trial each of the teenagers were found guilty by the jury‚ although there was a fairly large lack
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Throughout “Paradise Lost”‚ Satan slowly degenerates both mentally and physically as he turns from a fallen archangel into the lowest form of a serpent. He possesses some of his former pre-fall qualities; however‚ he becomes so tormented mentally that his physical appearance slowing conforms to the evil inside of him. His “honorable” motives even become corrupted throughout. This regression of Satan’s character throughout the poem illustrates the way Milton believes sin originated in the Bible
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the people living near the hovel. Paradise Lost and Frankenstein’s personal journal allow the monster to see how he was created and what his place is within society. Finally‚ Lives unfortunately gives him an unrealistic hope for his future. If the monster had read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ then he would have understood how to go about the cruelty of society. Each book that the monster read shapes who he becomes at the
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In Paradise Lost by John Milton‚ God cast angles away to hell for trying to overthrow him. Two of many of the angels God kicked out of heaven where Satan who had been Lucifer‚ the greatest angel and Beelzebub‚ Satan’s right hand man. Angles are suppose to be the good things in life. This shows that everyone has a beast in them‚ even the best of us. We learn after reading Paradise lost that Beelzebub means ‘God of the Flies’(Hilton‚255). So knowing the meaning of Beelzebub’s name and the name of
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Sir Gawain and The Green Knight and its underlying symbols Sweeney‚ Michelle. “Chapter 11 Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.” Essays in Medieval Studies‚ vol. 30‚ 2014‚ pp. 165-178. Project MUSE‚ doi: 10.1353/ems.2014.0011. In Sweeney’s article she’s expressing that in many romances women serve as a piece of a formula to drive heroes away or towards their salvation. She evaluates other poems where this is an issue‚ but I’m only going to talk about when it is relevant to Sir Gawain
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“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Essay: DOES THE POEM PROVIDE A POSITIVE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN? The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ supposedly written in the mid to late fourteenth century‚ shows the decline of both the code of Chivalry and of Feudalism. In a desperate effort to reinforce the ideals of Feudalism‚ the poet‚ evidently bias towards the Christian church and its values‚ use the female gender as the primary causes of this decay. At the time‚ the religious values were deeply
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