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1. John
Milton

2. •Born in London into a wealthy Puritan family in1608.
•He learntLatin,GreekandItalian.
•After a European tour, he supported Cromwell and his policy.
•He was made Latin Secretary to the Council of State.
•Helost his sightand a period of personal defeat and disillusionment
started.
•He died in London in1674.
1. Milton’s life
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3. 1st period:
•the poemsL’allegroeIl Pensieroso
•Comus, a masque
•Lycidas, a pastoral elegy
2nd period:
•Aeropagitica, a pamphlet
•prose propaganda
3rd period:
•Paradise Lost
•Paradise Regained
•Samson Agonistes
2. Milton’s works
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4. •Type of work epic poem
•Sources:
•Homer’sIliadandOdyssey
•Virgil’s Aeneid
•the Bible Book ofGenesis
3. Paradise Lost: the sources
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5. 4. Paradise Lost: the setting
•Heaven,Hell,the firmament (Chaos) andEarth.
•Milton’s Solar System
Ptolemaicdesign (also
called thegeocentricdesign)
rather than theCopernican
design (also called the
heliocentric design)
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6. •God the Father,God the Son.
•Satan, the powerful, proud angel who led an
unsuccessful rebellion against God.
•Adam and Eve, the first human beings.
•Gabriel,Raphael, angels on the side of God.
•Beelzebub and other rebellious angels, leaders
in Satan’s army.
5. Main characters
William Blake, Satan arousing
the Rebel Angels, 1808
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7. Satan’s rebellion
against God
So Adam and Eve
fall from grace
Adam and Eve live
in the Garden of
Eden happily.
The serpent gets
Eve to eat the
forbidden fruit.
Adam does the
same.
6. The plot
God casts Satan
into Hell
He turns into a
snake
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8. •Main theme the story of man’s fall
•Secondary themes
•Pride it leads to Satan’s downfall
•Envy coming from Satan’s pride
•Revengeit makes Satan tempt Adam and Eve
•Infidelity Adam betrays God by siding with Eve
•Disobedience Adam and Eve disobey God
•Repentance Adam and Eve repent
•Redemption Man is granted eternal salvation thanks to the
sacrifice of the Son of God
7. Themes
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9. •Theinvocationto the muse.
•Beginning of the storyin medias res.
•Tellinga storywith whichthe readers are familiar withthey
know the characters, the plot, the development and the end of the
story.
•Conflictin the celestial realm.
8. The epic conventions
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10. •Elevated,perfectly suited to the epic genre and to the theme.
•Use ofBlank-verse.
•Extensive use ofenjambments.
•Use of latinisms, inversions.
•Antithesis of light / darknessto depict Heaven and Hell.
9. Style
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11. Milton’s SatanDante’s Satan
Symbol God’s eternal
justice
Punishment
Appearance At first he is a
fallen angel; then
he takes the form
of a snake
Monster: three-
headed winged
creature
Dwelling Hell, below ChaosThe City of Dis,
the lowest circle
of Hell
10. Satan in Milton and Dante
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