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Paradise Lost - Themes - Coggle Diagram
Paradise Lost - Themes
Hierarchy and Order
Key Quotes
'Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.' - Satan (Book 1)
In portraying the “Fall of Man”, Milton spends much of Paradise Lost describing the universal hierarchy and order that these events upset.
17th century view of the cosmos: Heaven exists above, Earth below and Hell and Chaos below that
most important hierarchy of Heaven: God as supreme monarch, the creator and ruler of the universe, and his “only begotten” Son as equal in rank
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The devils of Hell are the lowest ranked of all, as they have been totally cast away from God.
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Paradise Lost is ironic: the radical Milton made his masterpiece a poem that defends the ultimate system of monarchy and order
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the moral lesson is that the hierarchy of Heaven and Earth must be respected and upheld and that the evil in the world is the result of an upset of the divine order.
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Naivety
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compared to Goddess of the hunt, Delia, but she is without 'bow and quiver'
the naivety is emphasised by the reader's knowledge of the source material. We know Adam and Eve will fall
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malcontent, thinks he can better himself in a strict society
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