FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell
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The Son is chosen as God’s second-in-command
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God and the Son create the universe
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The angels battle in Heaven
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chronologically, the very first scene that Milton describes in Paradise Lost occurs when “As yet this world was not, ” when God announces to the angels that he has begotten the Son ( PL 5.577). God says, “This day have I begot whom I declare / My onely Son your Head I him appoint” ( PL 5.603-4, 606).
Detailed explanation-2: -The ‘first disobedience’ comes about when the devil, in the form of a serpent, tempts Eve to take and eat some fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve then tells Adam what she has done and he too tastes the forbidden fruit.
Detailed explanation-3: -Book I of Paradise Lost begins with a prologue in which Milton performs the traditional epic task of invoking the Muse and stating his purpose. He invokes the classical Muse, Urania, but also refers to her as the “Heav’nly Muse, ” implying the Christian nature of this work.