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Lucifer Paradise Lost writing analysis
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Paradise lost (Lucifer semi analysis)
Luke 10:8 I Saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”
“The mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven and heaven out of hell”
““Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”
“What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to submit or yeild.”
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Paradise lost is often known as Milton's magnum opus in which he wrote Lucifer through depicting him as a tragic figure and his psychological state in defying God,. Often when we recall the name of Satan or Lucifer we think of absolute evil that caused the fall of Adam and Eve and brought forth death and sin to the world when he was cast for disobedience in heaven. The original sin who as one of the first creations of God disobeyed his order and did not respect His hierarchy.
Miltons intent in writing paradise lost was to justify the ways of god to men, and this conflict which tries to depict Lucifers internal struggle and frustration towards his eternal punishment, in book 4 mentioning his mind being the source of those raging flames that fuel his unrelentless pursuit of executing a futile attack against heaven,and conflicting natures between satan's perspective of the ways of god and the divine which he cannot actually deconstruct for its the creation of God, …
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