2/27/2023 0 Comments Paradise lost book 1![]() ![]() He trusted to have equalled the Most High, 40 Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host The mother of mankind, what time his pride Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The infernal Serpent he it was, whose guile, Who first seduced them to that foul revolt. Moved our grand parents, in that happy state.įavored of Heaven so highly, to fall off 30įrom their Creator, and transgress his will,įor one restraint lords of the world besides Nor the deep tract of Hell-say first what cause Say first-for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, That, to the highth of this great argument, Pandemonium the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep the infernal Peers there sit in council. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and what to determine on, he refers to a full council. To these Satan directs his speech, comforts them with hopes yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven for that Angels were long before this visible creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. Satan awakens all his legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded they rise, their numbers, array of battle, their chief leaders named, according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining. Which action passed over, the poem hastens into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, described here, not in the Centre, (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed,) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan, with his Angels lying on the burning lake, thunder-struck and astonished, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him they confer of their miserable fall. The final part is a close reading of ‘Book IV’, using this reading as an in-depth analysis of the character.This First Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, Man's disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the serpent who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven, with all his crew, into the great Deep. The second part will analyse other features of duality in Satan, namely, appearance and reality and the interior split within him. It will then move to an application of Aristotle’s Poetics, to justify the term “tragic” given to him in the introduction. The first part will analyse Satan’s duality in terms of heroism classical versus epic heroism, and whether he is more of a hero than a fool. It will analyse Satan’s duality in three parts. The second chapter is the core of the dissertation. The first part of this chapter will focus on the Apollonian-Dionysian duality as proposed by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, the second part will debate whether or not Satan and God’s parts in the heavenly war could be justified using the Just War Theory, and the final part will analyse doubling in Freudian terms, referring to The Uncanny and The Ego and the Id. ![]() ![]() The first chapter will analyse theories of doubling from different disciplines: philosophy, ethics, and psychology, and will apply the theories to the poem using illustrations from different parts of Milton’s epic. The Introduction will first establish the standpoint of the dissertation, which views Satan as the tragic hero-villain of the epic, and it will then move to an analysis of an inherent duality evident in parts of the epic that involve features other than Satan’s character. This dissertation seeks to analyse the dual nature of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. ![]()
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