The Paradise Lost (Book Review Sample)

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The Paradise Lost
From the poem ‘The Paradise Lost’ bring a vivid description of how things come to be in the current world. Milton describes the world that is engulfed in sin and evil by indicating the tragic event that lead to such predicament to befall humanity. The poem help explains a lot of life happening and fill the gap between righteousness and evil. Moreover, the author through the poem the Paradise Lost explains the loss of humanity, how the good and wonderful kingdom was taken away from humanity. With the introduction of sin came misery and its entire wrath and to redeem man from such agony salvation must be brought to mankind and his generation.
According to Milton in his poem ‘The Paradise Lost’ tries to bring the image of how the world comes to scramble and create the dissimilarity between what was initially good to turn and become evil. The author, describe the event of how Satan tricked Eve to disobey God and eat from the forbidden fruit. This act points out the weakness that was within mankind, and it further elaborated through Adam naïve nature to accept to eat the fruit after being convinced by Eve. The journey of death, misery, sin and hell started with the bite of the fruit of knowledge ‘ with these Gates for ever Shut’ (Milton, 37).
Free will
Man from his time of creation has enjoyed liberty and freedom, it was solemnly Adams choice to fall into temptation and eat the forbidden fruit. Milton supports the free will given to humanity as a favor for God to his creation. God Himself has established the idea of free wills from the moment He created Adam and kept him in charge of the Garden of Eden. Adam was given the liberty to name the entire animals and be in control of all the creatures that God had created. This symbolizes the free will that God had bestowed on Adam. Moreover, through the poem ‘The Paradise Lost’ the free will of God is symbolically identified with His act and thoughts. Milton describes that God free will through His reflection on His creation (Adam and Eve), he sick to protect them against the evil Satan and send Raphael the Angel to teach them to danger disobeying God and eating the forbidden fruit. This was a sign of free will letting them decide whether they could abide by the warning or fail.
God free will is also expressed through his omnipresent and omniscient state, as describe in the Bible God is all knowing, He knew of the plan of Satan to destroy his creation but did not wreck Satan. This is an act of free will giving Satan a choice to decide on his course of action whether they are valid or not. Also, God knew that Adam and Eve were to eat from the forbidden fruit once they deceived by Satan. Despite knowing He did not warn them or take any initiative, instead He left them to act out of their free will.
Good and Evil
The poem ‘The Paradise Lost’ revolve around evil and good, describing what is good from that which is bad and the consequences of doing evil and bad thing. God is perceived as Holy and all righteous, He is the creator of both good and evil in the world. From the poem, the difference between evil and good is clearly elaborated through God and Satan. Also, the dissimilarity can be expressed through heaven where God and the entire righteous angel were as good and Hell to be a place of evil considering Satan was through to Hell after waging war in heaven. When Adam and Eve eat from the forbidden fruit evil had taken over them, and they were no longer considered good and righteous. The devil spreads evil, he is considered as the mastermind of evil and sin, and he works tirelessly to ensure that mankind fall into his trap of evil doing (Graham, 129).
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