FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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The New Testament
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Homer’s epic poems
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The Hebrew Bible
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The Koran
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem is a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve from the biblical book of Genesis which describes the creation of Heaven and Earth and of Adam and Eve. This poem fleshes out this story and imagines the couple’s reactions to the events that led to them being expelled from the Garden of Eden (or Paradise).
Detailed explanation-2: -As a near perfect human, Adam is ruled by reason. He immediately understands Eve’s sin in eating the apple, but he willfully ignores his reason and eats because of his love and desire for her. Adam’s uxorious attitude toward Eve, which perverts the hierarchy of Earth and Paradise, leads directly to his fall.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, discusses the Fall of humankind from Paradise . The Fall occurs when Adam and Eve, after tempted by Satan, eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. In doing so, Adam and Eve show disobedience towards God and are, subsequently, expelled from Eden, or Paradise .
Detailed explanation-4: -Michael qualifies this freedom: because of the fall, he says, men only have true liberty when they obey “right reason, ” or reason tempered by conscience (XII.