On the Image of Satan in Paradise Lost

The success of Milton?s Paradise Lost owes much to the depiction of the main epicimage of Satan whose attributes enable him to achieve tragic status. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of paradise Lost. The critics in the world have been concerning the image of Satan in Paradise Lost, whose complexity makes the poem more controversial.The reason why the image under Milton?s pen is so complex is that the Satan attracts the poet?s inner force, which drives him to change the people?s traditional ideas and cause resonance of all the revolutionaries.

Satan in the Bible is an image of devil. But in Paradise Lost, Satan challenges the authority of God and want to be free, he is a fighter for freedom. The poet portrayed Satan as a brave hero that went to get rid of god?s domination. In Paradise Lost, the Satan was the most successful image the author shaped.The allure of free will is where the attractiveness and power of Satan's character lies. Stanley Fish in his essay, ?The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost,” argues that Satan possesses a form of heroism which is easy to admire because it is visible and flamboyant and that, on that basis, Satan?s attractiveness is only initial. Milton was, undoubtedly, conscious that he was in danger of portraying Satan as too much of a heroic figure and made efforts to be little him through the use of unflattering imagery, and by highlighting his less complimentary characteristics.

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Before my presentation of Paradise Lost, please allow me to ask you some questions about the Bible. How much do you know about the Garden of Eden?

First question: Satan appeared to Eve in the form of what creature? Serpent

Second: The Bible says Satan is the father of what? Father of Lies（谎言之父） Third: What happened when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit?

They committed the first sin and are led out of the Eden.

We all know that the forbidden fruit is the apple from the Tree of Knowledge.

After eating the apple, Adam and Eve were led out of the Eden, the paradise, and thereafter they lived a life full of hardship.

Now, let’s get down to the subject, the Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost is Milton’s masterpiece. It’s the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf, and a long narrative epic poem in blank verse, consisting of 12 books.

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Paradise Lost Handout

Excerpt from Book VIII:

Here had new begun My wandring, had not hee who was my Guide Up hither, from among the Trees appeer'd, Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but with aw In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss: he rear'd me, & Whom thou soughtst I am, Said mildely, Author of all this thou seest Above, or round about thee or beneath. This Paradise I give thee, count it thine To Till and keep, and of the Fruit to eate: Of every Tree that in the Garden growes Eate freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth: But of the Tree whose operation brings Knowledg of good and ill, which I have set The Pledge of thy Obedience and thy Faith, Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,

Remember what I warne thee, shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence: for know, The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt dye;

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Summary

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

This story starts at an end.

Today is Eddie＇s 83rd birthday. And his life ended in this day. Eddie is maintenance of Ruby Pier an amusement park. For many years, he examined all the facilities and made sure they worked well. He was scrupulous about every detail in his work. Before his death, he examined all the facilities as usual. After that, he sat in an old beach chair. At that moment, he began to think the first time he met with Marguerite. Suddenly, he heard a woman shouted. There was something wrong with the Free Fall, and four people are in danger. In this accident Eddie died in order to save a little girl.

After he died, he woke up at a teacup in the Ruby Pier amusement park, not the park where he died, but the one 75 years ago. Then Eddie ran out of the teacup. He ran through the Ruby Pier, and then stopped at an empty ticket kiosk in front of a large theater, where he met with the first person—the blue man.

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Book Report of The Great Gatsby

1. About the author.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even if your business has failed，we have to maintain the habit of generous style”. Mary McQuillan, his mother, was the daughter of a successful wholesale grocer, and devoted to her only son. Fitzgerald entered Princeton University in 1913, where he spent most of his time doing social activities. He left his studies in 1917 because of his poor academic records, and took up a commission in the US Army. His experiences during World War I were more peaceful than Hemingway's - he never saw action and even did not go to France. The turning point in his life was when he met Zelda Sayre while he was at one of the bases where he trained in 1918, herself as the daughter of a justice from Alabama Supreme Court and an aspiring writer. He proposed to her but failed as she thought he was just a poor boy. In 1920 appeared Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The book gained a success which Fitzgerald celebrated energetically in parties and married Zelda successfully. Zelda danced on people's dinner tables in endless parties to celebrate the immediate success. But that was not to be the ending for the Fitzgerald. They lived in New York City. He drank too much. She spent too much money. He promised himself to live a less costly life. Always, however, he spent more than he earned from writing. In 1925, Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, considered great work. Although it initially met with little commercial success, this novel about the American dream of material success has become one of the most popular widely read and critically acclaimed works of fiction in American literature. The life of the title character, Jay Gatsby, has been compared to Fitzgerald’s life. While living in the French Riviera, Zelda’s illness became serious. She suddenly began to practice ballet, dancing night and day. After a second nervous breakdown, she was hospitalized for mental illness in Carolina. During the last years of his life, Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood, earning his living as a screenwriter. He died of heart attack at the age of 45. In 1948, the hospital at which Zelda was a patient caught fire, causing her death.

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bJohn Milton and Paradise Lost

Class 5

Student’s Number 10157136

Name 黄希茜

Abstract: This passage mainly talk about the excellent poet John Milton and the selection of his masterpiece“Paradise Lost”. Concisely analyzed the features and the influence of Milton’s poems which are concluded by appreciated this specific section of “Paradise Lost”.

During the period of British bourgeois revolution, there were many distinguished poets, writers or artists appeared. John Milton is the most typical one as a poet. He is the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. And as a firm revolutionary, he had written a lot of works to motivate the revolution. In order to defended republic, he exerted his utmost effort to written a lager number of works from day to night which caused he blind at last. Even so, he decided to go on his work. Under the bad revolution situation, he accomplished three masterpieces with the help of his daughters and friends, “Paradise lost” is one of these three, and the others are “Paradise Regained” and “Samson Agonistes”.

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Purification of Soul

‘David Copperfield’is a long piece of fiction which was written by Charles Didkens,a famous Britain author.I was totally athracted by the writer’s sprightly and charming language.I see many people’s souls shining in Britain which was surrounded by fog.

David Copperfield,the hero,has a miserable chiadhood,He has never seen his father,because his father had died before his birth.his mather remarried Mr. Murdstone when he was eight years old.The Murdstones abused David and his mother bitterly.Ludkily pegotty,his kind maidservant,always did her best to take care of him.

David was sent to Salem House by Mr.Murdstone,which was the worst school in Britain.There appeared to be a Worse career in the hell on earth. The cruel headmaster was in a bad habit of beating his students with a heavy stick he carried with him all the time.The worst thing was David was forced to wear a sign round his neck only for his revolt agairst his stepfather’s hits.His little heart was seriously injured because of that.

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