Paradise Lost Annotated Bibliography Essay

Mathew Pagan

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4/20/15

Paradise Lost Annotated Bibliography

Henry Mory III, “Paradise Lost”, The Institute For Creation Research, 2013

Mory breaks down Satan through three parts. He states that Satan is present in Paradise, as The Serpent, and then when Paradise is Lost. It state how Satan also affected Adam and Eve in the Garden. Mory also writes how Satan caused Adam and Eve to commit mortal Sin. He also says how Satans mocks God over the apple.

Kent Lehnhof, Scatology and the Sacred in Milton's Paradise Lost, Chapman University, 2007

In Lehnhof’s summary he states how Satan grew envious of God’s power. Due to his attempt of overthrowing God he is cast out of heaven along with his league of fallen angels. As well how although Satan

is not particularly astute as an observer of certain attributes, he manages to make the connection between divine beings and easy and odiferous transpiration. Especially during the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. That is how he managed to use his powers instead for good to tempt eve and Adam to eat the forbidden fruit.

Edith Kaiter Corina Sandiuc, Milton’s Satan: Hero or Anti-Hero?, International Conference of Scientific
Paper AFASES, 2011

Both authors in this essay state how Satan uses his fluent speech to infleunce his group of fallen angels.

At times he becomes torn with conflicting emotions. His inner debates and self-criticism reveal him as a dynamic being. Satan flows through his heroic story, allowing himself to be the anti-hero the story. The authors believes that Satan is created as “an example of the self deception and the deception of others which are incident to the surrender of reason to passion.”

Christopher Murphy, Construction and Rhetoric: A Study of Satan in Paradise Lost, A Journal of Undergraduate Literary Criticism and Creative Research, 2012

The author in this paper analyzes Satan’s character through multiple ways. He analyzes the poem in a explicit narrative form and then on a more subtle, literary context form. He borrows from Barbara Lewalski’s, Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms, different characteristics on Satan. Therefore he says that the poem creates Satan, through the construction of an ongoing topic of investigation for the reader. It is not so much Milton rhetorically informing the

reader.

Jay Stringfield, Essay on Paradise Lost, Kansas State Univeristy, 2004

Stringfield states that Satan is the anti-God and is incapable of possessing qualities that do not show evil. He say that Milton portrays as non- evil when he refuses to equate himself with evil. He says that Satan defies the traditional mold of inhumanity. Satan does demonstrate heroic qualities within Paradise Lost, which can be seen in in many parts of the book. The author also says how Milton presents Satan as a figure of majestic stature and eloquent language in his construction, such as Satan’s appearance and speeches when rallying the fallen angels back into movement after their descent.