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... man's free choice to revolt against God : not man's in- constant nature ( God made that nature ) , and certainly not the infernal serpent . Any attribution of causes , though it may seem at first to focus the reader's hostility in the ...
... man's free choice to revolt against God : not man's in- constant nature ( God made that nature ) , and certainly not the infernal serpent . Any attribution of causes , though it may seem at first to focus the reader's hostility in the ...
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... man's disobedience , it sounds ( to the time - bound reader ) that he is judging mankind in advance of their crime ... man's Fall . His assertion is that it is man's own fault that he fell ( will fall ) , and yet the balance of this ...
... man's disobedience , it sounds ( to the time - bound reader ) that he is judging mankind in advance of their crime ... man's Fall . His assertion is that it is man's own fault that he fell ( will fall ) , and yet the balance of this ...
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... Man's woe Holds on the same , from Woman to begin " ( XI , 632-33 ) . But just as God would not let Adam blame his transgression on Eve ( Book X ) , so now Michael ends Adam's attempt to evade responsibility for his own error of ...
... Man's woe Holds on the same , from Woman to begin " ( XI , 632-33 ) . But just as God would not let Adam blame his transgression on Eve ( Book X ) , so now Michael ends Adam's attempt to evade responsibility for his own error of ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton