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The choices we decide to make build our path in life. If we make the right choices, then your life will be the life you want to live. I believe that we were all destined with some kind of purpose. However, the choices we make will determine whether we fulfill that purpose or not. Thus, our choices will ultimately decide our fate. Through the years, we have been taught about choices and their impact on our actions. We have free will in the sense that we can either go on one road or the other. We decide what we do on a daily basis, moment by moment, and we decide what path we want to go on. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag was a fireman who had his life entirely changed when he met a 17 year old girl named Clarisse, and an old woman who

The actual journey of the pilgrim to his destination has proven to be a vital part in the transformation and transition of the pilgrim. It is in this journey where most of the sacrifice takes place in a goal to follow the footsteps of either Jesus or Muhammad and the other prophets. In both Christianity and Islam, the pilgrimage entails both physical and financial sacrifice. In John Bunyan’s classic protestant allegory, The Pilgrim’s Process’ the story is told of a Christian who left home with a burden and a book. The burden is a symbol for original sin, while the book represents the Bible. The pilgrimage to the Holy Land is meant to serve as following Christ in every way possible, through both morals and geography in order to free the

Disobedience plays a key role in the unfolding of Milton’s poem. Satan disobeys God because God gave him free will, and causes Eve to disobey Adam, to disobey God.

John Milton produced some of the most memorable Christian texts in English literature. Central pieces of Milton’s work, including Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, specifically allude to stories that Judaism and Christianity hold in common. Historically, the anti-monarchical regime Milton supported, under the leadership of Cromwell, informally allowed Jews back into England in 1655 after Edward I exiled them in 1290 (Trepp 151). Additionally, seventeenth-century British Christians looked increasingly to Jewish texts to understand their own religion (e.g. Robert Ainsworth and John Seldon), with Hebraic studies from German scholarship and Latin translations of Jewish texts entering during the

Of Things Invisible to Mortal SightThe Holy Bible is in many ways a story of origins. The history recounted both in the Old and New Testaments has at its base the perception of a fallen humanity; beginning with the fall from Eden and the nature of evil, to the means of regaining Gods grace and the discussion of free will, it emphasizes humanitys inability to fully comprehend the nature of God and of the universe. In writing his epic Paradise Lost, John Milton is fully aware of his limitations as a mortal man; however, in an attempt to transcend the finite to the infinite, to describe the indescribable and to understand the unknown, Milton bases his arguments on Biblical theology to show that mankind has fallen from immortality to mortality

The Pilgrims Progress is truly a book of spiritual power. Christian is a godly man on his way to the Celestial City. He encounters many trials and tribulations throughout the way but God continued to guide him to safety, resulting in him arriving to Mount Zion safely. Through his pilgrimage, Christian finds the true meaning of humility and God's power.

When a person hears Satan, a streak of fear, and the thought of evil arises. People fear Satan, and think of him as evil, but in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, he displays a thought of the Father being the evil being, and Satan a tragic hero. In Paradise Lost, Book 1 and 2, the minor areas where God is shown, He is displayed as hypocritical. He contradicts himself by creating the humans to be of free will, but when Satan displays free will, he is shunned. Satan could be described in many terms, and by many people, but all can be disputed. According to my sources, Satan is displayed as the hero, while God is the evil deity, and Milton was wrong for writing Him as so. In this essay, I will show my thoughts on the subject of Satan as an evil

Knowledge can be taken or given in any situation. The transfer of power through knowledge is inevitable, but how an individual uses it is unique to every person. Even though someone may have power, it would be useless unless it was credited by other people. The approval of others in a society is what drives the strength of power. Intelligence may be apparent in a certain individual, but without validation their knowledge is forgotten and not even considered active. If the most knowledgeable entity’s intellectual superiority, the Christian God, was not supported by others, then he would not be the center of an entire religion. In John Milton’s epic poem, his power is defined by his ability to make other people love him with complete obedience and by withholding knowledge. Pozzo, from Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, does the same by controlling all of his slave’s actions and withholding Lucky full potential to be an intellectual human. On the surface, Pozzo from Waiting for Godot and God from Paradise Lost seem to lack similarities, however the amount of power they possess in their own situations is indistinguishable and the different ways in which they utilize their knowledge provides a glance into how different individuals react when they are superior.

Throughout time, John Milton's Paradise Lost has been studied by many people and comprehended in many different fashions, developing all kinds of new interpretations of the great epic. There have been many different interpretations of this great epic. Milton's purpose in writing the epic was to explain the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Although the epic is similar to the Bible story in many ways, Milton's character structure differs from that of the Bible's version. All through out the epic Milton describes the characters in the way he believes they are. In book II of Paradise Lost, Milton portrays Satan as a rebel who exhibits certain heroic qualities, but who turns out not to be a hero.

John Milton perceives time as “the subtle thief of youth” (line 1) as he proclaims in this sonnet, How soon hath Time. This sheds light on his emotional state, revealing his disappointment concerning his lost youth.

Paradise Lost is an epic of John Milton, a seventeenth century English author, known for being the greatest reader in English history. The poem goes back to the beginning of time and tells of the rebellion of Satan and his followers, the war in that took place in heaven, and the defeat of Satan. The story also tells of the creation of the world, the life of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and their loss of everything when they give into the temptations of Satan in the form of a reptile. It ends on a good note when Michael shows Adam the future of the human race. There are many significant aspects of Milton’s theodicy, Paradise Lost¸ that can be pondered or discussed.

Throughout Christian’s journey in The Pilgrim’s Progress, he encounters many dilemmas which often throw him off the path to the Celestial city. However, whenever someone is with him or aids him, he prevails and acquires more and more wisdom. If he has a constant guide or companion in his journey, it will be less probable for Christian to stumble or get lost. John Bunyan should incorporate the character “Paraclete” into his book, The Pilgrim’s Progress, because he will provide help in times of trouble, he will encourage Christian to overcome obstacles, and he will grant Christian someone to talk to and travel with.

Students often read John Milton’s works with great difficulty; he is determined to have his audience know his goals and how important his writing is through epic metaphors and masterful language. In Paradise Lost, he tells his audience that this will the epic to end all epics and that this is the most important tale of all mankind: the fall of Man. Comparatively, Alexander Pope used the same style of epic not to tell an important tale, but to question much of the life of aristocracy in his time. In his mock epic, Rape of the Lock, Pope alludes to Paradise Lost in order to point out the trivialities of the aristocracy in his life.

Similarly life is all about choices we have and we make along the path . What we choose is our decision and it will reflect our life.

As Book VIII of John Milton’s Paradise Lost begins, the “new-waked” human Adam ponders the nature of the universe and the motion of the stars (ll. 4-38). When Adam has finished his speech, Milton takes the opportunity to describe Eve, who is listening nearby. We find Eve reclining in the Garden, but with grace, not laziness: “she sat retired in sight,/With lowliness majestic from her seat” (41-42). This “lowliness majestic” is the central phrase to understanding Eve’s character—she is both humble and glorious. Everything that beholds her is captivated by her “grace that won who saw to wish her stay” (43). Even in this paradise, every other beautiful creation is drawn to Eve. She walks