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    Paradise Lost Critical Analysis “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.” (9.911) John Milton believes it is his responsibility to enlighten the world that predestination and free will can exist simultaneously. He uses the very well-known story of Adam and Eve‚ and elaborates the details

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    In John Milton’s historic poem‚ Paradise Lost‚ he established a unique conflict between the Christian Holy Trinity that represented God and the Unholy Trinity that represented satan. The previously established Holy Trinity of God‚ was a collective representation within Christian doctrine of God the Father‚ Son‚ and Holy Spirit as each member of the trinity represented God in different roles and ways. The opposing trinity of unholiness was established in response to the outcasting of Satan from the

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    The view on how religion should impact a person’s life has changed steadily throughout much of English history. These changes can be seen through much of their writing in which the earlier writing has Christianity playing a key role‚ while‚ in more recent writing‚ religion plays a much smaller role in the more modern writings. Strong religious messages can be seen in the earlier writings‚ such as “The Wanderer” and “Everyman”‚ but becomes more questioned in later writings‚ such as “Dr. Faustus” and

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    How does the construction of nature change over the course of English literary history? In the late renaissance period the authors were more focused on the plant aspect on nature because it was simple‚ then‚ during the enlightenment‚ they become more focused on the animal aspect of nature. They became more focused on the animals because‚ animals were more complex than plants‚ also animals are similar to humans. During the enlightenment humans were focused on gaining the understanding science and

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    [pic] TERM PAPER Foundation of computing CSE 101 Topic : - Sudoku game DOA : -02/11/2010 DOS : -20/11/2010 Submitted to : - Submitted by : - Gagandeep Kaur Vaibhav Kumar Tripathi Deptt. Of foundation computing Roll no: -RG4003A34 Section: -G4003

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    "Paradise Found and Lost" from Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Discoverers‚ embodies Columbus’ emotions‚ ideas‚ and hopes. Boorstin‚ a former Librarian of Congress‚ leads the reader through one man’s struggles as he tries to find a Western Passage to the wealth of the East. After reading "Paradise Found and Lost‚" I was enlightened about Columbus’ tenacious spirit as he repeatedly fails to find the passage to Asia. Boorstin title of this essay is quite apropos because Columbus discovers

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    Between the two novels‚ Paradise Lost and Frankenstein‚ there are many striking similarities. What makes these two books so wonderful to read is the author ’s ability to write about the ultimate struggle; the struggle between God and Satan‚ or Good and Evil. The characters in Paradise Lost and in Frankenstein seem to be very similar to one another. God and Victor Frankenstein have many similarities. One of their similarities is that they are both creators of new life. The monster‚ Victor ’s creation

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    Satan being so great and heroic‚ Milton gives the readers a sense that Satan is constantly suffering. Satan explains that the more pleasures he sees‚ the more torment he feels. He doesn’t want to live on earth or in heaven‚ though he wants to make others experience the same pain that ails him. He explains‚ "only in destroying I find ease to my restless thoughts‚" (IX.129) stressing that with his intensity of ambition he’ll stop at nothing for revenge. Milton shows the greatness of Satan but at

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    Book I of Paradise Lost by John Milton reflects and parallels the Biblical story of Satan’s fall when he became too proud and thought of himself higher than God. This epic poem goes into detail on Satan’s attitude and thoughts of his fall. In the beginning of the poem Satan is chained and captive in the Lake of Fire and it is only through God’s allowance that Satan can be free and devise plans. As the poem continues Satan goes through the process of acceptance of this state he is in and plans a way

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    free will to be present in a relationship with God. In order to have a relationship with God we must posses free will‚ because free will gives us the power to have faith in God‚ and put trust in God. According to the Bible‚ and Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ Free will did not exist in the world until God influenced Adam and Eve. God told Adam and Eve that the one rule they must follow in the garden of Eden is to never eat from the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve took this command and blindly followed

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