John Milton’s <i>Paradise Lost </i>and its Basis in the Bible

Abstract

Paradise Lost is a religious epic poem. Milton is going to justify the ideas of God, the perspective of God, and whatever God wants, whatever God plans for human beings. All these are the ways of God. The first line is about Man’s first disobedience. A human being is disobeying God. Milton was trying to look at the world the way it was constituted, with all its suffering, malevolence, and corruption, and to make a case for why it was still acceptable. He did the first what might be thought of as a psychoanalytic study of Evil.
There is the concept of heaven and hell. The idea that God’s highest angel, Lucifer, the bringer of light and the spirit of rationality, fomented a rebellion against God in heaven. In Paradise Lost, there is this idea that there is tension between the political and ideological. He considers the constructions of the rational mind and the transcendent mythology that guides human organization. If people do not believe in God, if people distrust God or they are neutral regarding God, Milton attempts to convert these people and tell them to come back and follow God and start believing in Him. Milton will justify his view, giving reasons why this must be so.