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Topic: Milton's Paradise Lost

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:T S Eliot,  Robert Frost
Good point(s):Humble
Bad point(s):Boastful
Personality:Rebellious
Religion(s):Satanic,  Atheist
Favorite artist(s):Rubens
Favorite religious figure(s):Jesus Christ
Favorite great leader(s):Oliver Cromwell
Favorite great thinker(s):Thomas Hobbes
Favorite movie(s):Doctor Zhivago
Listens to:Billy Gilman
Ultimate fantasy(s):Destroying Civilization
Favorite political figure(s):Oliver Cromwell
Favorite quote(s):"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
 
 
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

The next time we see a truly heroic Promethean character in mythology it is Lucifer in John Milton's Paradise Lost.
John Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost , Goethe's Mephisto in Faust , and Dostoevsky's collection of troubled anti-heroes are the literary embodiments of free will.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Costumed as "The Demon Actors in Milton's Paradise Lost" Comus members presented a dignified nighttime street procession followed by a private ball at the Gaiety Theatre.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Paradise Lost: The Musical -- Final mixes for 11 vocal selections have been completed for this rock opera based on John Milton's epic poem!
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Paradise Lost is John Milton's epic poem of the fall from Heaven, the English poet dictating his work to his daughters after being left blind in 1652.
Kheraskov shows that he is familiar not only with classical epic poetry but also with the modern epics of Tasso, Camoes and Voltaire, as well as with Milton's Paradise Lost.
Residing near the latter was an old recluse named Frank Parker who spent most of his time writing epic poem that would completely eclipse Milton's Paradise Lost.
Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver

And note that Baal-Zebub, the Phillistine Baal, meaning "Prince Baal", in Milton's "Paradise Lost" is Beelzebub, a fallen angel who is Satan's second-in-command.
See Satan's speech exhorting the fallen angels to continue their rebellion against heaven in Book I of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Mark Harris,
Priest

And in Paradise Lost , the poet does not reduce the human condition to a deterministic state, for Milton's God does tells us that the tree of “Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set' is for “The pledge of thy obedience and they faith.
While Earl's motto is Satan's pronouncement from Milton's Paradise Lost , "Better to rule in Hell, than serve in Heaven," he does achieve a kind of redemption.
By examining Milton's earlier work, Aeropagitica and his later epic, Paradise Lost , we can understand how he felt about free will and necessity, and if he did actually undergo a theological shift.
 
 
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