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This 9 page report discusses John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (1667) and how he shows his readers a world in which human beings found the eloquence and deceptions of Satan are far more interesting or stimulating than anything that relates to the regal and impenetrable silence of the heavens. Why didn’t God take action to stop Satan? What was the overall intent of allowing Satan to cause the havoc which has plagued humanity for all time? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Earth that was ultimately destroyed of "lost" by the invasion of 16th and 17th century explorers and colonists. He shows his readers a world in which the eloquence and deceptions
of Satan are far more interesting or stimulating than anything that relates to the regal and impenetrable silence of the heavens. Throughout "Paradise Lost," it is clear that Milton also
intended his readers to be aware of the biblical parallels of the fall from grace and the banishment of sinners from the perfect and natural world to which they had
originally been born. Milton said that his overall intention in the poem was "to justify the ways of God to men" (Book I: 26). What the reader sees is
that at absolutely every moment in the story, Satans weapon is some form of misrepresentation and deceit. In fact, in heaven, Satan assumes the disguise of the Great Prophet who
acts like some sort of Moses to lead the angels away from heaven and the domination of God. He even creates a deceptive belief system to persuade the angels to
join him in revolting against God. The question of why God did not interfere with the war in heaven is one that literary critics, philosophers, and even theologians have questioned
and considered for centuries. That Which Cannot be Known According to Lieb, "Stanley Fish is among the most important and influential Miltonists writing today" (252). Fish is convinced
that part of Fishs understanding of Milton is based on the idea that Milton was, in his way, glorifying the mystery of god through "Paradise Lost" and emphasizing the fact
that things that cannot be seen are of no less consequence than that which is readily understandable and intellectually accessible. Lieb explains Fish explaining Milton as: "... the
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