FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The fight between good and evil
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Heaven’s battle and Satan’s tragic fall
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The creation of the universe
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Adam and Eve’s disobedience
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Detailed explanation-1: -God, being God, was by definition superior to every other thing in the universe and should always be obeyed. In Paradise Lost, God places one prohibition on Adam and Eve-not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. The prohibition is not so much a matter of the fruit of the tree as it is obeying God’s ordinance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem (12 books, totalling more than 10, 500 lines) written in blank verse, telling the biblical tale of the Fall of Mankind – the moment when Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and God banished them from the Garden of Eden forever.
Detailed explanation-3: -Adam and Eve’s disobedience allows God to show his mercy and temperance in their punishments and his eternal providence toward humankind. This display of love and compassion, given through the Son, is a gift to humankind.
Detailed explanation-4: -The central conflict and subject of the poem then becomes Adam and Eve disobeying God by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which God had forbidden. This single act of disobedience leads to the “Fall of Man, ” and the Christian explanation for all the suffering and evil in the world.
Detailed explanation-5: -Milton further emphasizes in the prologue that his theme will be Man’s disobedience to God’s will, implying not only Adam’s disobedience, but all mankind from first to last. He does add that his subject will include the “greater Man” (4) who saved all others from the original disobedience.