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This 8 page paper explores the themes of loss and absence as a painful example of loss; specifically Satan and Adam and Eve will suffer the absence of God as punishment for their sins. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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inaccessible to many readers. This paper considers Miltons work through the lens of Bennett and Royles literary criticism. Discussion Nicholas Royle and Andrew Bennett are the authors of a well-regarded
textbook of literary criticism, and one of the texts they examine in detail is Paradise Lost. This paper considers Royle and Bennetts statement: "Tragedy is not only about the sense
of particular causes or explanations but also, and more importantly, about a painful absence or uncertainty of cause" (Bennett and Royal 105). (Since the writer doesnt have access to that
text, the student will have to add in any observations from the Bennett and Royle book they feel are appropriate.) Many, if not most, religions say that Hell is
not something, but rather, it is nothing; specifically, Hell is not torment, pain and everlasting fire, but the absence of God. That is certainly the attempt that Milton has made
in Paradise Lost, for it is a tragedy of double loss. Not only does God throw Lucifer from Paradise, Man is also expelled from the Garden of Eden. Thus the
poem explores loss on several different levels, and what it means to each of those who suffers it. The over-arcing structure of the poem is the long story of how
and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The very first words of
the poem tell us that this is going to explore the subject of loss: "Of mans first disobedience and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste /
Brought death into the world, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden ... (I.1-4). The poem, in other words, is all about how man disobeyed God, and by
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