paradise lost

Milton

Politically active, hated tyranny/monarchs, loved individual freedom, reason is a guide for morality

Moral

Pious

Immoral

Impious

Satan

Complicated, freedom of the individual, corrupt

Epic

Justify the ways of god to man

Divine perfection

Flawless and deals with by using logic and reason

Statan

Uses reason but is also corrupted

Free will

Ability to make informed choices

God the character

Controlling, strict, ego, distant, and legalist

Divine perfection

Knows mankind will fall, wants them to choose to worship, they want to corrupt man’s mind

Fortunate fall

Satan vs Adam/eve

Satan

Sympathetic villain early, turns evil, pride and ambition corrupt reason

Adam and Eve

Innocent (predisposed to fall?), no real free will