Essays on John Milton

Frankenstein is one of the most successful stories that Mary Shelley wrote, and it has remained to become a legend to her writing and literary works. While this story was published in 1816, the inception of its story line began way before this date, and its eventual writing was a manifestation of life espionages that Mary endured. In fact, this story was written as a lamentation to the life’s discourse that Mary had experienced, especially after people she so much loved faced the cruelty in the hands of gruesome death. Therefore, the life discourse that Mary had experienced ...

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The Paradise Lost is the epic poem written by the blind English poet John Milton. For many years, this piece of poetry had sparked countless of debates amongst literary scholars particularly concerning the character of Satan. One important aspect of studying Milton’s work is to analyze his clever ways of manipulating characters to challenge the notion of good and bad heroism. In his work, Milton’s Satan was an evil character; however, he also portrayed the devil to a heroic figure instead of God or Adam. In order to analyze the character of Satan, one must begin with a definition ...

Satan is viewed as a monstrous creature, a dark lord crippled by evil whims and a malicious being that is unable to comprehend love. The crafty sentient being is the arch enemy of the creator and remains as such to not only Christians but also Muslims and Jews. Satan is hated by the Almighty God, God’s mortal creatures as well as his angelic beings. Those who acknowledge the existence of the devil argue that he is the ultimate deceiver and the uncanny serpent that is responsible for the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. Satan possesses demonic powers that ...

Northern Lights is a fantasy novel written by Phillip Pullman. The novel also referred to as “The Golden Compass” in the North American market belongs to the young-adult fantasy genre. The novel is set in a parallel universe. The plot revolves around the protagonist’s, Lyra Belacqua journey to the Arctic to look for her uncle, Lord Asriel who has been imprisoned and her friend Roger Paslow. The beginning of the novel makes reference to a line from the famous poem by John Milton, “Paradise Lost”. The line from the poem is “He took the golden compasses, prepared in god’s eternal ...

Milton in his widely read work “Paradise Lost” develops his character Satan differently than many of the traditional portrayals of him in the Bible. Whereas the Bible portrays him as the essence of evil, Milton creates a character that has a human side to his persona. He has hopes, dreams, aspirations and weaknesses that he deals with on a level that are relatable from a human perspective. In the bible, Satan’s lot is clearly cast, he is the enemy of God, the enemy of humanity, and is pure evil. In the New Testament, Jesus says about Satan, “He that committeth sin ...

It was finally completed in 12 books in 1674, but Paradise Lost is no Magnus opus. It is merely a poem. Written by John Milton, it is often called an epic and there is merit to that classification. There has been more than an ample scholarly discussion of Milton’s purposes and/or themes, especially on the role of Satan and the lack of God in his work; but the poet’s true aim that he stated forthwith was to justify the ways of God to men. So while academics dispute that that presence (the presence of God) is lacking in ...

John Milton, in the poem On His Blindness, talks of the frustration of the speaker who is blind and hence unable to serve God. The speaker’s frustration finds a reply from “Patience” who tells that the Almighty does not really require man’s work. All he asks for is the perseverance to bear with the “mild yoke” and embrace what the God asks for with faith in heart. The poet puts to use the form and his quintessential touch in language and content of his work. The poem is considered one of Milton’s immortal literary works. A close ...

“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost and “On his Blindness,” John Milton are poems simply written but tell volume about the speakers state of mind; how they find tranquility in places where most people would be miserable Frost’s poem is written in iambic meter and in the first three stanza lines one, two and four rhyme. In the last stanza all four lines rhyme and the last two lines are the same emphasizing the speaker’s need be on his way. Milton’s poem/sonnet is compatible to Frost’s like him; he has ...

One of the things, among others, that the poets John Donne (1572–1631) and John Milton (1608–1674) have in common is their poetic style. John Donne and John Milton developed a poetic style in which they reasonably and often paradoxically approached philosophical and spiritual subjects. Although John Donne and John Milton have written fairly distinct poems, but their constructions of devotion and godly poetics tend to be quite similar. Although most of their poetic works are centered on their personal relationship with spirituality, but the sexual realism in their poetries cannot be ignored or overlooked. They use rhythms in ...