FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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Belial
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Moloch
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Mammon
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Beelzebub
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the start of Book II, Satan sits on his throne like a Middle Eastern potentate and addresses the assembled devils as to the course of action they should follow. Four of the devils speak-Moloch, Belial, Mammon, and Beelzebub-with Beelzebub being Satan’s mouthpiece.
Detailed explanation-2: -Moloch argues for open war, as he reasons that nothing – not even total annihilation – could be worse than the devils’ current state in Hell, so they have nothing to lose by fighting “the Torturer” (God) and trying the weapons of Hell against him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Belial, fictional character, a fallen angel in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (in 10 books, 1667; in 12 books, 1674) who tries to persuade the others to be more discreet so that their unacceptable behaviour is less conspicuous.
Detailed explanation-4: -710-18, 835-77) of the poem, could easily make Shelley pronounce that Milton’s God, as a moral being, is much inferior to his Satan and ‘One who in cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy’.