The Renaissance LiteraturePrepared By : Ravi Bhaliya A

Semester : 01

Roll No : 26

Paper No : 01 (The Renaissance Literature)

Enrolment No : 14101004

Email ID : ravibhaliya5@gmail.com

Date : 5/10/14

Year : 2014-16

Submitted To : Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University

Critical analysis of “Paradise lost” Book-9

•Born- 9 Dec,1608

•Death- 8 Nov,1674

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

ComusLycidas

Samson Agonists

His exceptional works

Critical analysis

His Grand style

Characters

Themes

Disobedience

Theme of revolt

Justification of ways of God to man

Major themes in “Paradise Lost”

Major characters in “Paradise Lost”

God: The omnopotent,omniscient and the omnipresent creator of the universe. God is allof,almost emotionless. He embodies pure reason, and consequently his responses often seem cold. He gave man free will. From Man’s free will, sin and death came into the world but God will see that goodness rules in the end.

Satan: Probably the most famous quote about Paradise Lost is William Blake’s statement that Milton was “Of the devil’s party without knowing it". Besides this Satan also appears as heroic.

Adam: Before the fall Adam is nearly perfect human beings as can be imagined. He is physically attractive, mentally adept, and spiritually profound. The first human, created by God from the dust of earth. He is part of God’s creation after the rebellious angles have been defeated.

Eve: Eve is the simpler character than Adam. She is created from Adam’s Rib as his helpmeet while she is beautiful, wise and able, she is superior to Adam in her beauty.

Other characters like

Sin

Son

Death

Michael

Raphael

In Modern times Milton’s style first received general criticism from T.S Eliot

Eliot also points out about Milton’s style that

“What he could do well he did better than anyone else has ever done, his poetry could only be an influence for the worse upon any poet”

His Grand style

Allusion and vocabulary

The first aspect of the grand style that most readers notice is the number of allusion and references like

“Oreb” “The Shepherd” “Chosen seed” “Siloa’s Brook”

Sentence construction Extended

similes

Paradise Lost

Adam & Eve, the

first human being

Satan’s revenge

Eve’s eating the fruit of knowledge and then Adam too

Fall of mankind

God’s Creation of Earth

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