Characters of paradise lost

Characters of Paradise Lost written by john Milton are well explained here.

1. Of Paradise Lost CHARACTER ANALYSIS

2. Trinity: Tri+Unity=Trinity The Christian doctrine of the  Trinity   (Latin: Trinitas , lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus "threefold") holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), Holy Spirit “As one God in three Divine persons".

3. The Son The second person of the trinity equal to God and of the same essence but a different person. 1.Presentation of the son in paradise lost The merciful and compassionate side of God is presented in the son. 2.Qualities of the son. Powerful Brave Willing to help mankind

4. Description about Son’s power The Son’s power is also further revealed in (book vi) when god decides to end the rebellion of the angels. God sends only the son in a chariot against Satan and his hosts. The son by himself is able to defeat the rebellious angels and cast them into Hell.

5. Son as the acting hand of God’s decision Milton describes the son as the acting hands of God’s decisions, when God says that Adam and Eve will fall must suffer death and death can be overcome if some one in heaven will sacrifice himself to death for man. Then son says that he will become human and die to defeat death. This act clearly defines the son.

6. Son as the creator of earth God also uses the son as the creator of the earth and universe around it. Milton connects the son closely to mankind by making the son the creator of the biblical account. After the fall of Adam and Eve the son goes to earth at God’s request and passes judgment on the serpent, Adam and Eve.

7. Beyond telling the humans about what their punishment will be, the Son also pities them and clothes them in skin. God seems to be almost the embodiment of ideas while the Son converts these ideas to actions.

8. Adam The first human and the father of mankind. Adam is created as a perfect- beautiful, innocent and wise but even his unfallan state he is eager for forbidden knowledge and attracted by Eve’s physical beauty. But Adam is greater than Eve in wisdom, strength and closeness to God.

9. Description Of Adam in paradise lost. Adam is physically attractive, mentally adept, and spiritually profound. He stand out in Eden as the apex of the hierarchical pyramid. only eve can compare to him and she only in physical beauty.

10. The conversation between Adam and Eve (before book x) are models of civilized discourse. These conversations are difficult to imagine as real but they reflect the nature of two humans. In each instance when Adam speaks, he shows the proper relationship to the being with whom he converses.

11. Adam’s superior personality Adam is superior to Eve and inferior to Raphael and God. Always Adam shows proper respect and relationship in graceful speech and manners. Adam welcomes Raphael graciously but in a similar tone that acknowledges the superior standing of the angel.

12. After downfall Adam’s changing personality After downfall Adam’s conversation with Eve become querulous. He blames here and she him. It takes a mea culpa speech by eve to rekindle Adam’s love for his wife and to reestablish their proper relationship.

13. Flaw of Uxoriousness in Adam If Adam has a flaw before the fall it is uxoriousness . (This term means dotingly or irrationally fond of or submissive to one’s wife). Adam tells Raphael that Eve’s beauty affects him so much that what she wills to do or say seems wisest, virtuosest , discreetest and best. That’s why Adams eats the fruit of the tree of knowledge .precisely because he can’t bear to be without eve.

14. Eve Eve is a simpler character than Adam. She is created from Adam’s rib as his helpmeet. She was the first woman and mother of mankind. 1.Representation in the paradise lost She is presented as beautiful, wise and able. S he is superior to Adam only in her beauty. From the time of creation when she looks in water and falls in love with her own reflection.

15. Flaw of vanity in Eve Eve is linked to the flaw of vanity and S atan as the serpent will use this defect against her. Eve is generally presented as submissive to A dam and to some extent dependent on him. Her reasoning powers are not realized as his. But Eve is perfectly capable of comprehending the abstruse subject but she prefers hearing the ideas from the Adam alone.