Discuss the
representation of Satan and Adam and Eve in PL.
What does this
representation reveal about Milton’s commentary on religion and/on politics?
Through the
perspective of contemporary American English from the 21
st Century,
analyzing the work of John Milton and Milton himself as an author, poet, what
we consider today ‘Civil Rights Activist”, for his work was the ignition to an
era that changed the balance between justice, law and equality. He was the
representation of the iconic movement to speak as we feel and think, such as
today ‘The Freedom of Speech”, a constitutional right in the United States of
America.
Perceiving John Milton through
a perspective of a person who believes people have rights and someone who stood
up and educated oneself and others of equality. During the English Restoration,
John Milton wrote a scripture referred to as
The Treaty to Civil Rights in 1659 against what today can be considered
tyranny by King Charles to the parliament, where he failed to commit to the
parliament and ruled England at his discretion.
You might
be asking why am I disclosing so much information of an author, rather then
asking the focus question, however it brings me to my point of how my curiosity
and knowledge on John Milton erupted.
When reading
Paradise Lost of
1667 by John Milton, it frames a rather interesting vibe and perspective
of
‘he who must not be named’, “Satan”.
Milton is thought instead makes connections through humanly instincts and acts,
to Satan.
Which is interesting because
of the fact that Milton was in fact raised in Catholicism and later reformed
his belief in Christianity to due to the Tyranny from King Charles and the State
of the Church.
In the writings Milton
writes “Stirred up in envy
