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Unit 20: Paradise Lost-I (Non-detailed Study): Discussion and Analysis–I

• The Iliad and the Aeneid are the great epic poems of Greek and Latin, respectively, and Milton Notes
emulates them because he intends Paradise Lost to be the first English epic.
• Satan lies stunned beside his second-in-command, Beelzebub, in a lake of fire that gives off
darkness instead of light.
• God allows it precisely because he intends to turn their evil designs toward a greater good in
the end.
• Sin dwells alone and in utter torment, representing the ultimate fate of the sinner.
• Uriel comes before the Archangel Gabriel, at the gate of Eden, and tells him about the shape-
changing spirit that he saw from the hilltop.

20.6 Keywords

Capivate : Charm.
Incestuously : Involving or guilty of incest.
Torment : Serve physical or mental suffering.

20.7 Review Questions

1. Who leads the fallen angels to dig for gold in Hell? Why?
2. Who volunteers to go alone to spy on God’s new creation?
3. What is Jacob’s ladder in the biblical account?
4. Who is Uriel? What does Satan ask of him?
5. How does Satan feel about his own free will?

Answers: Self Assessment
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (c)
4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (c)
7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (c)
10. (c)

20.8 Further Readings

Paradise Lost I (Non-detailed study) — John Milton
John Milton Paradise Lost — John Milton
John Milton: a short Introduction — Roy Flannagan

Online links http://www.bookrags.com/notes/pl/index.html
http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/paradis02.asp

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