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A 5 page paper compares and contrasts the relationships of each literary work, God/Satan, Frankenstein/Creature, Marlow/Kurtz, in order to demonstrate how there is a progressive erosion of religious belief from “Paradise Lost,” while man searched for the meaning of life which he hoped he would find through the knowledge of science and the acquisition of material wealth, while never quite relinquishing the traditional religious myth that some knowledge is divinely forbidden. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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well chronicled throughout Western literature. However, as man began to consider the concepts of good and evil in greater detail, looking more inward, the belief that an external God
was the source of all things began to erode. The notions set forth in John Miltons epic poem, "Paradise Lost" (1667), explored that free will is the root of
all evil and that man must put his complete faith in his maker were being questioned by nineteenth and twentieth century authors, who created protagonists that exhibited "God complexes."
In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein plays God by creating a monster out of the anatomical parts of the dead. Instead of embracing his creation
or "son," as God did in "Paradise Lost," Dr. Frankenstein ultimately rejected his progeny. In Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, Mr. Kurtz tries to recreate a biblical paradise in
the dark continent of Africa, where he is revered as a God of the people. However, in actual fact, Kurtz had more in common with Miltons Satan, for the
self-proclaimed "supernatural... deity" presided over "unspeakable rites" (Conrad 118), exploiting nature and man. John Milton articulates the Christian view that God had created an idyllic paradise for man,
and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his existentialist beliefs in freedom of choice that man became corrupted by sin and forbidden desires.
God demanded obedience, while Satan offered an exercise of will, proposing "Free, and to none accountable, preferring / Hard liberty before the easy yoke / Of servile Pomp" (Milton
1388 255-257). Milton makes it clear that if man had not deviated from the straight and narrow path of virtue that had been forged by God, he would have
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