Paradise LostBookRix, 15 ביוני 2019 - 321 עמודים Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men". Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandemonium, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organize his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to poison the newly created Earth and God's new and most favored creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden of Eden. At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, He gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death. The story of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. Adam and Eve are presented for the first time[citation needed] in Christian literature as having a full relationship while still being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another ‒ if she dies, he must also die. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong. After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve have lustful sex. At first, Adam is convinced that Eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. However, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realizing that they have committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination. |
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Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater. MAN: WHENCE. AND. HOW. CHAPTER. I. PRELIMINARIES. 1. WHENCE comes man and whither goes he? In the fullest answer we can only say: Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God; but the ...
Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater. MAN: WHENCE. AND. HOW. CHAPTER. I. PRELIMINARIES. 1. WHENCE comes man and whither goes he? In the fullest answer we can only say: Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God; but the ...
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E T. Bromfield. FROM WHENCE COME WARS ? THE spirit of war is now abroad , and every eye is turned anxiously towards the scene of conflict . Our thoughts are with the brave soldiers in the Crimea , patiently and ... WHENCE COME WARS? ...
E T. Bromfield. FROM WHENCE COME WARS ? THE spirit of war is now abroad , and every eye is turned anxiously towards the scene of conflict . Our thoughts are with the brave soldiers in the Crimea , patiently and ... WHENCE COME WARS? ...
עמוד 11
... Whence comes it to pass , what plea or excuse have we to offer , if we be found wrangling and contending , at enmity and in bitterness , one with another ? Whence come these fightings amongst us , if not from the evil lusts that war in ...
... Whence comes it to pass , what plea or excuse have we to offer , if we be found wrangling and contending , at enmity and in bitterness , one with another ? Whence come these fightings amongst us , if not from the evil lusts that war in ...
עמוד 18
... whence ye were digged , the rock whence ye were hewn ! And the thought came to me of mine own people , their sufferings , their ignorance , their black misery , their rank squalor . So I re- turned to them . Year after year I returned ...
... whence ye were digged , the rock whence ye were hewn ! And the thought came to me of mine own people , their sufferings , their ignorance , their black misery , their rank squalor . So I re- turned to them . Year after year I returned ...
עמוד 18
... whence , and his whence and his where must indicate his whither . Where are we ? Whence are we ? and Whither are we going are questions which incessantly force them- selves upon our attention ; and science merely seeks , with all ...
... whence , and his whence and his where must indicate his whither . Where are we ? Whence are we ? and Whither are we going are questions which incessantly force them- selves upon our attention ; and science merely seeks , with all ...
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