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A 5 page paper which discusses the significance of freedom and obedience in Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” No additional sources cited.
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and Eve, God and his Son, and the existence of Satan. It is a poem that presents the reader with many foundational illustrations of Gods intentions, Satans history, and the
essential basics concerning freewill and humans. As such it is also a tale about freedom and obedience. The following paper looks at Miltons story and discusses first the notion of
freedom and then the notion of obedience. Freedom Freedom is a very complex and yet also very simple reality. Freedom generally applies to many things, not the least
of which is freewill. Throughout Miltons work we see that mankind was given freewill. Angels were not given freewill but were created to love God and obey him. Satan was
a being who transcended that reality and found pain and suffering. Freewill is the ability to choose ones actions, the ability to disobey and take a different path from that
prescribed. Adam and Eve were given freewill, they were given freedom. They were allowed the freedom to choose and the freedom to act in whatever way they wished to act.
In Book III of Miltons work we see how God describes much of their freedom. He states that, "All he could have; I made him just and right,/ Sufficient
to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that freedom he also possessed
the freedom to fall and fail. God also notes and interesting truth in this book when examining what glory or happiness could be achieved through sheer obedience without any freedom:
"What pleasure I from such obedience paid,/ When Will and Reason (Reason also is choice)/ Useless and vain, of freedom both despoild,/ Made passive both, had servd necessitie" (Milton Book
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