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    Adam ends up favoring Eve over God‚ but why? Milton asserts that Eve’s beauty and charm persuades Adam to love her over God. Milton gives his reasons relating only to Eve’s qualities‚ as he lacks to address Adam’s thoughts and feelings. I believe that Adam favors Eve because she is his wife. Adam refuses to stand by and watch God punish Eve for her sins‚ as this helps make his choice to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve’s disobedience to God is not praiseworthy to Adam‚ yet he sticks

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    Milton equips his character Satan with the ability to skillfully articulate falsehoods and heretical notions which will be omitted by non-analytical readers‚ emphasizing and demanding the need to dissect the carefully constructed poetry’s function in the book’s defense and support of God. In Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ Satan observes his new surroundings and directs his reflection at his close ally Beelzebub after their fall and painful time spent in the lake (I. 220-240‚ p.217): Farewell

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    The Satan of Paradise Lost

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    Page 1 The Satan of Paradise Lost The Satan of Milton’s Paradise Lost is often regarded in literary criticism as a remarkably complex character. Introduced to the readers as a fallen angel with a grudge against the almighty powers that be in heaven and a burning passion for vengeance‚ Satan receives more characterization and motivation than any other character in Milton’s epic ­ including God Himself‚ who mostly operates in the background of the story. Because of the time spent familiar

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    In Milton’s Paradise Lost he expresses the different aspects of Eve and Satan .Satan uses his manipulation from the start of the creation of Eve.Satan uses his rhetoric to make Eve fall into his plan and cause her to corrupt Eden.Eve goes wrong by becoming Satan and creating Adam to sin. Eve when she became created she had the same qualities as Satan does. He appeals to her self absorbed mindset. After changing her perspective of God and Adam he causes her to sin and make her second guess her life

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    journey of our life‚ I woke in wonder in a sunless wood‚ for I had wandered from the narrow way. Dante Inferno Canto I Such was my sickness and my torture‚ as I accused myself even more bitterly than usual. I was twisting and turning in my chain until it

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    Sympathy for Satan John Milton spent years trying to think of an idea to base his epic on; an idea that would make his epic last centuries and never be forgotten. His desire came to life since his work lives in history‚ along with Homer‚ Virgil and Dante. Finally‚ he found a muse in God and in the dawn of creation; rather than in earthly matters. John Milton’s intention while writing his epic was not to make Satan a hero‚ however‚ many people perceive such an idea. Instead‚ he simply wanted

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    John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) in seven verse paragraphs of fifty-four rhymed iambic pentameter lines. The opening sentence forms a grammatical unit of ten lines. The remaining lines‚ marked with a grammatical pause at the end of each couplet‚ follow the poetic practice of end-stopped couplets. Initially‚ Marvell contrasts Milton’s “slender Book” with its “vast Design‚” its Christian topic of salvation history and its cosmic scope of infinite time and space. He fears that Milton will mar or disfigure

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    Good vs. Evil according to Milton in Paradise Lost. John Milton divided the characters in his epic poem Paradise Lost into two sides‚ one side under God representing good‚ and the other side under Satan representing evil and sin. Milton first introduced the reader to the character Satan‚ the representative of all evil‚ and his allegiance of fallen angels that aided in his revolt against God. Only later did Milton introduce the reader to all powerful God‚ leader and creator of all mankind. The

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    Paradise Lost - Pride

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    ’Pride goeth before the fall’ Proverbs 16:18 In Milton’s “Paradise Lost”‚ Adam and Eve might be considered tragic "heroes" in the sense that they knowingly doom themselves to be removed from Paradise‚ and are thus subjected to the harsh‚ new world‚ and yet persevere with the hope for a better future. What makes their act of sin

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    Milton Hershey was and still is one of the greatest chocolate makers of all time. He was the man who turned a bare patch of land into a thriving chocolate town and pulled everybody through the Great Depression. But‚ Hershey is best remembered to be the person who made chocolate popular in America and other parts of the world. Many people today know and purchase the infamous chocolate products that have been produced by the Hershey Factory‚ but some know about how the business became to be so successful

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