FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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Mammon
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Moloch
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Beelzebub
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Ashtaroth
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hell is a sorrowful place where ‘rest can never dwell’ and hope, which comes to all human beings, is totally absent. It is a murky land which has only doleful shades to droop and drown. Milton in this regard refers to Dante’s concept in Inferno: ‘abandon all hope, ye who enter this place.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fallen angels that will be discussed in the following passages are Satan, Beelzebub, Moloch, Chemos, Baal, Astarte, Thammuz, Dagon, Rimmon, Osiris, Isis and Belial. Satan is known in every culture; he is even worshiped by people through his followers.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Paradise Lost, Satan falls from the heavenly spheres, plunging through nightmarish limbo for nine days, and landing in the depths of Hell. Yet, prior to his descent into Hell, Satan belonged in Heaven, an archangel named Lucifer, a rational and perfect being created by God.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Importance of Obedience to God In essence, Paradise Lost presents two moral paths that one can take after disobedience: the downward spiral of increasing sin and degradation, represented by Satan, and the road to redemption, represented by Adam and Eve.