John Milton tells the classic childhood, Sunday School story of Adam and Eve, but decides to bring in the twist of Satan and how not only he gets kicked out of "paradise," but how he strives to come back to make the Garden of Eden not be a paradise.
Milton describes Eden as a "delicious paradise," which anyone thinking about Eden, would think of as a lush garden full of trees, animals, goodness, and the delicious fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. "Our death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by" is a reference to the fruit that Adam and Eve took from the tree and caused the fall of Adam.
In the first couple of pages of book four, Satan declares "The hell within him, for within him Hell" meaning that who ever he tries to be, what ever he does, and wherever he goes, hell will follow him and be with him. He knows he can never repent for what he did. This maybe why he tends to bring others down to his level.
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Milton describes Eden as a "delicious paradise," which anyone thinking about Eden, would think of as a lush garden full of trees, animals, goodness, and the delicious fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. "Our death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by" is a reference to the fruit that Adam and Eve took from the tree and caused the fall of Adam.
In the first couple of pages of book four, Satan declares "The hell within him, for within him Hell" meaning that who ever he tries to be, what ever he does, and wherever he goes, hell will follow him and be with him. He knows he can never repent for what he did. This maybe why he tends to bring others down to his level.
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