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PARADISE LOST 

The 5th century or the 21st , man could not be excluded by his own nature.  The poem  PARADISE LOST described by John Milton . He speaks about  the temptation of human nature as well as the blind belief in God. Today we will talk about human  perspective and spiritual  perspective of paradise lost  . This blog is design by pro. DILIP BARD , his efforts towards to give a platform for our thought path. click here for a worksheet.

(1667) An Epic by John Milton. Its subject is the Fall of Man; it also tells the stories of the rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve. Milton declares that his aim in the poem is “to justify the ways of God to men.

1. what is your understanding of human perspective and divine perspective? give illustration to support your understanding.

 I start my view point with some highlights are like....

"Live in the embrace of sin and punishment,

  Such is the nature of man.” 

- Muzan 

“Be dyed in white, be dyed in white, let the purity 

of the white salt wash over your body.”

 - Myoujou/Nerose Satanel

• THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE

1) HUMAN IGNORANCE

Doctor Faustus classic example is that mankind has always been craving for knowledge, power, love, fame.  Implementing what is forbidden is the basic truth of the human being.  Knowledge is always enticed by love or power.

In Milton's poem, the unknown of humankind is a smattering of human values.  This ignorance is a manifestation of intellectual ignorance.  It shows the place of the woman in the time and ideas for the woman of the society.

 Apples  as a symbols of male-dominance society of snake ignorant class of  women in the masculine society.  At that time women were a means of seduction and physical love.  The one who accepts the words of the woman or accepts the words of the woman is punished.  There is a sarcasm on a lost woman in Paradise who has been rescued by apples as a defense of male-dominated society.

2) BLIND FAITH IN GOD

Adam and Eve were both superstitious.  Not aware of their own rights, after eating the fruit of enlightenment, the illusion is broken. 

 It can be terrifying to say that human beings do not have to give up their lives but do not give them the freedom or the rights, they do not give themselves the power to reason.

3) TRUE LOVER 

Adam and Eve both portray as a true lover couple.  Eve is tempted by the snake and she becomes very wise and godly by eating apples.

 After realizing his mistake, Eve tempts Adam to eat the fruit too.  Despite the realization of the error, Adam eats apples only for Eve Both are punished by the devil for disobedience.

A very eminent writers Shakespeare put a book on that particular story of two lovers of paradise lost click here to learn more.

3) RECOILED OF WOMANHOOD

This poem strikes a woman's nature as well as her habits.  The woman is greedy, dishonest and not trustworthy.

For humankind there is punishment for disobedience.  Even after eating apples, it seems invalid to obey the orders or punishments of a Satan even after the knowledge, intellectual attitude has come.  

There may be something wrong with the apple, isn't it?  

It is unbelievable that a human being with maturity, knowledge and revolutionary ideas be subject to God and suffer the punishment of transgression. 

Painting her as an archetype of a Dark or Terrible Mother of humanity could actually be interpreted as a testament to female power and anxiety over male impotence in this area; just as man has no control over his expulsion from Mother Earth’s womb, so he has no control over his re-envelopment into Earth. This portrayal of Sin demonstrates the complex nature of Milton’s attitude towards women and femininity.

• THE DIVINE PERSPECTIVE

1) THE ANGRY GOD 

God heals in the highest place.  Humans know that God does not make all human beings feel as well as His laws.  Adam and Eve violate these rules and are punished for this ignorance.God's attitude even as our creator does not seem entirely fair perhaps his judgement would have seemed more appropriate if men like satan and even Angels by their own situations fail self tempted self departed instead we have a usual situation in which an important.

Very useful and discriptive character study, click here to visit the Link and get idea about the role of God in paradise lost.

So will fall he in his faithless progeny: whose fault? 

Use but his own in great he had of me all the good

 have I made him just and right sufficient

 to have stood through free to fall. 

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2) THE CONCEPT OF HEAVEN 

Heaven is a golden chain for dreams as well as for everyday life.  The life of a painless, trouble-free paradise attracts the common man.  Paradise  Lost beautifies the poem by bringing the essence of paradise with marvelous power.

3). HUMAN EMOTIONS 

The richness of human emotions and their hatred is part of poetry. 

 The question is, if God created humankind, did he do wrong?  

why god  made man  ignorant, dishonest?  For the fall? 

 If humanity is to be kept unknown then why give a curiosity?  

for the very first let see the very interesting image DANIEL MARTIN DIAZ, which portrayals the expectations of human nature  

"You humans are the lowest forms of filth on this planet. No wonder the flies are attracted to you constantly. You reek of sin and malevolence. You are not even considered humans...but asses."
-Beelzebub

Click here to know Beelzebub's views about manhood.

 We understand this approach not by a distinguished author.

4) THE ROLE OF NATURE

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Click here for more to see  about temptation. This link is a resource of argument which I written above.

2. How do your read the character of eve as transgresses and yet dependable? 

Milton’s presentation of Sin in Paradise Lost reflects a complex attitude towards women which is certainly misogynistic, but not purely hateful. In Paradise Lost, the reader is invited not only to objectify, condemn, and fear women, but also to revere and sympathize with women, if not in equal measure.

This medieval image shows the story of the Fall as it is described in Genesis: Eve talking to the snake, Adam eating the apple and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

1). EVE CHALLENGED THE FLOW OF HUMANITY 

Eve is the first female to be born in 50 years. In an ageing world destroyed by man, she’s raised away from the conflict. Through the eyes of the epic poem’s only major female character, the problem

of image makes itself known. How she comes to interpret herself and the world around

her is centered on a male-dominated ideology, brought to life by a male—a dominant

literary male—in a field of male-dominated tradition. Given these circumstances, Eve

can’t see herself for herself; she becomes the problematic signifier, the allegorical

figure that brings the problem of image to the forefront of discourse. Hers is a

definition of self that comes from a male, an understanding of self framed in and by

masculinity.Milton’s Eve sees herself and her

or rather his (Adam’s) world. She was created from Adam and for Adam. Hers is a

man’s world, a world fashioned for men by a father-figure type God—a great ladder

of patriarchy. She recognizes her secondary status, her inferiority to Adam, her duty to

look to him as her “Guide and Head.”

If readers are interested in such a productive More reading than click the link, the link shows the male dominant society as well as hierarchy which prevailed in that era. With the special reference of DUCHESS OF MALFI.

In the 21st century we still are in a hangover of heaven and firmly we relate the story of paradise lost in our routine life. here i am sharing one picture( iPhone's back covers reflect the story of paradise lost) related  with that poem that how myths and stores of god as well as the religions theme attracts as ,

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