Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse written by the 17th century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books, with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Mann: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Satan meets with Beelzebub in a place called Chaos. Beelzebub listens Satan when he describes how he and other angels fought with God and lost. But Satan does not believe that all is lost. He makes Beelzebub to follow him. Now, Beelzebub is Satans mate, his role in to make Satan believe that he is the most powerful from all the other angels. Beelzebub represents a mechanism through which Satans power grows, if he would be omitted the poem would change in what concerns the perspective on which readers see Satan. In Book 1 Milton presents Satan through his actions. Satan is very pride so he gathers an army of fallen angels in order to fight with God, because he considers that he is equal with God. Milton sees Satan the guilty one for the Paradise Lost. His main role is to determine the fall of mankind into sin. In line 54 Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Milton switches from past tense to present in order to make the reader observe and understand that evil is present all the time and everywhere. Satan represents the darkness the path into sin, but it is very important to see that he believes himself to be only a victim. He thinks that he is right to be equal with God. But his fatal flaw, his own pride shows that he wants to be the only authority there, that no one can say what to do: his Pride /Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his Host/ of Rebel Angels. Satan can be compared with other evil characters in culture like Lucifer or Mamon who was the chief of the devils or with Belzebut who was the protector of Ekron , Belizar from the Byzantine History. All these characters are different forms of evil. This form of evil is represented in other, different ways by all the characters mentioned below. The main idea is represented by the fact that all these characters are a way in which humanity loses its senses and become vicious people. Paradise Lost is widely considered one of the greatest literary works in English language. Spataru Alin Anul2, Romana-Engleza, gr2