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This 10 page paper examines, illustrates and analyzes the concepts and themes arising from the acts of disobedience as they are offered in Milton's Paradise Lost. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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light is the absence of dark, or good is the absence of evil. Milton utilized the story of Adam and Eve to illustrate the point that evil is necessary because
it is inextricably linked to the definition of good, and without evil, there would be no concept or existence of good. Therefore, Adam and Eves disobedience led to the understanding
and knowing of good. The whole human picture is exactly what John Milton looked at in his Paradise Lost. In its twelve cantos he tells the story of the fall
of Adam in a context of cosmic drama and profound speculations. Miltons speculations about what the afterlife is like, for example pictures of heaven and hell, show them to be
disparate places. It would seem that he drew heavily upon the Christian theological ideas of heaven and hell, then expanded on them. The main character that ushers Adam and
Eve from Paradise is the arch-angel, Raphael. He is gentle and allows Adam to fully perceive what will follow and what will happen. He does this by reciting the history
to come from Adams line. Imagine learning of all the black sheep and skeletons in ones own closet for millions of generations yet to come. Adam is predictably horrified when
he learns that his sons will fight and one will die. Thus, the reciting of the story is a punishment for Adam, a demonstration of the consequences of his actions,
the evil that he has wrought. O unexpected stroke, worse then of Death! Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and
Shades, Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respit of that day That must be mortal to us both(Milton, Book X, li 274).
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