Paradise lost共22页文档

BOOK 1
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Book I introduces the main subject matter of
the poem: the creation, fall, and redemption of
the world and humankind. After the great battle
in Heaven and the fall of the rebel angels. The
• Satan, whose name means "enemy" or "adversary" in Hebrew, is the first character that is introduced to the reader. The leader of the fallen angels, Satan was known as "Lucifer" before he initiated a rebellion against God and was cast out of Heaven. At the same time, Milton introduces a God in Paradise Lost who is wrathful and distanced, which makes Satan even more appealing and heroic, it should be noted that Milton’s God is not a friendly God.
The theme of Paradise Lost
• The poem, as we are told at the outset, was to “justify the ways of God to man," to advocate submission to the almighty. But after reading it one gets the impression the main idea of the poem is a revolt against God’s authority.
The content of Paradise Lost
• Paradise Lost, one of the greatest poems in the English language, was first published in 1667. Paradise Lost is Milton’s masterpiece. it is a long epic in 12 books, written in blank verse. The story was taken from the Old Testament: the creation of the earth and Adam and Eve, the fallen angels in hell plotting against God, Satan's temptation of Eve, and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden.
giving them an inspiring speech and
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encouraging them to action.
• Satan and Beelzebub gather their strength and fly off the fiery lake to firmer, though still fiery ground. They see their army lying confused and vanquished in the fiery lake. Satan gathers his closest twelve around him. He has heard a new kind of creation that God intends on making, called man. They will continue the war against heaven, but the battlefield will be within the world of mankind. So all the millions of rebel angels then gather in the temple for a great meeting, Shrinking themselves and become dwarves in order to fit it.
demonic host listed • Satan's speech to the legions (about the
creation of man) • The building of Pandemonium群魔店
Satan
• In biblical and mythical Satan chained on the burning lake in hell texts, as well as in popular culture, Satan is consistently portrayed as an evil and antagonistic figure in Paradise Lost who attempts to undermine the true hero of the story. Is Satan a heroic figure in Paradise Lost?
• Book 1 breaks down naturally into six sections: • Invocation and introduction of poem's theme • An account of Satan's revolt and expulsion from
Heaven • Dialogue between Satan and Beelzebub • The other devils' rallying around Satan - the
poem thus introduces its readers first to Satan,
the cause of the fall of humankind, At the
moment following his own first fall into Hell,
Satan is the first to rise and awaken his legions,