ParadiseLost浓缩版.doc

“Paradise Lost” is Minton’s masterpiece . （Of all Milton’s great works, Paradise Lost is the most complicated and most profound one, ）It deals with revolt from God, with sin and fall, and with the possible salvation. It presents the author’s views in an allegoric religious form, and readers will easily discern its basic idea梩he heroic revolt against God抯 authority and “ justify the ways of God to men”. It is the reflection of the reactionary forces of Milton抯 time and the passionate appeal for freedom. It is a long epic in 12 books, written lin blank verse. Paradise Lost is consisted of 12 parts. Part1, the reasons and results of the events; part2, Satan and angles discuss how to fight against God; part 3, God decides how to give human a gift; part 4, Satan meets with Adam and Eve and his temptation; part 5, the angels warn Adam about Satan’s temptation; part 6, the angels and Satan fight against God; part7, Adam asks angles about world problems, and gets answers; part8, Adam asks angles about how celestial bodies run, but he is not satisfied with the answers; part 9, Satan pretends as a snake and ask Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit; part10, God is so angry and Adam also regret; part11, Adam and Eve are expelled from the Paradise; part12, Adam and Eve leave the paradise and then lost the paradise. The story were taken from the Old Testament: the creation; the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angels; their defeat and expulsion from Heaven; the creation of the earth and of Adam and Eve; the fallen angels in hell plotting against God; Satan抯 temptation of Eve; the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden. Significance: Paradise Lost which played a powerful role in promoting the development of the epic was the product of Puritanism, as well as rooted in Milton’s personal beliefs and faith. (The creative style of Milton was different from any writers after him. Although Milton was involved in Puritan movement, his religious ideas and politic