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John Milton’s Paradise Lost:

To assert Eternal Providence and Justify God’s Ways to Man- an Analysis.

Paradise Lost is a poem by John Milton highlighting the battle of heaven between Satan and his angels, and God, an attempt that led to their damnation to hell. God, however, had a plan to rescue human beings Adam and Eve after they were sent away from the Garden of Eden following a temptation from Satan, asking them to disobey God. By the time he authored this epic classic, he was blind ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {“citationID”:”Z1s8WtXK”,”properties”:{“formattedCitation”:”(VITALE 2)”,”plainCitation”:”(VITALE 2)”,”noteIndex”:0},”citationItems”:[{“id”:905,”uris”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FEHRQRCJ”],”uri”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FEHRQRCJ”],”itemData”:{“id”:905,”type”:”article”,”title”:”John Milton, 400 Years Of ‘Justifying God To Man'”,”author”:[{“family”:”VITALE”,”given”:”TOM”}]},”locator”:”2″,”label”:”page”}],”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”} (VITALE 2). He received assistance from his fellow poets, and daughters to write for him what was in his mind. The major problem presented by the story is theodicy. The God of Milton is the creator of human beings, the authors good, but their suffering and fall is a result of their doings ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {“citationID”:”kaIUJ6D3″,”properties”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Ignatik)”,”plainCitation”:”(Ignatik)”,”noteIndex”:0},”citationItems”:[{“id”:906,”uris”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/E28H2RHB”],”uri”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/E28H2RHB”],”itemData”:{“id”:906,”type”:”article”,”title”:”Epic Poem, Epic Questions: Studying Milton’s Paradise Lost”,”author”:[{“family”:”Ignatik”,”given”:”Katarzyna”}],”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2020″]]}}}],”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”} (Ignatik). Therefore he makes a declaration on eternal providence and justifies the ways of God.”

“ For man will heark’n to his glozing lyes, And easily transgress the sole Command, Sole pledge of his obedience: So will fall 95 Hee and his faithless Progenie: whose fault? Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee All he could have; I made him just and right” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {“citationID”:”jhzX8EzK”,”properties”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Milton 95)”,”plainCitation”:”(Milton 95)”,”noteIndex”:0},”citationItems”:[{“id”:903,”uris”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FJJY2MHZ”],”uri”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FJJY2MHZ”],”itemData”:{“id”:903,”type”:”article”,”title”:”Paradise Lost”,”author”:[{“family”:”Milton”,”given”:”John”}],”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“1667″]]}},”locator”:”95″,”label”:”page”}],”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”} (Milton 95)

The phrase used by Milton in his classic epic tries to show how the aim of God was to rescue the universe by changing bad things to good. The characters from the poem are God, Jesus, who is the son, Adam, Eve, and Satan. Satan is the fallen angel who attempted to question God’s means of governance. Unfortunately, he was sent out of heaven together with the evil angels to hell’s capital, pandemonium ( a place where Satan and the ‘bad angels’ or demons reside). Milton tries to depict the nature of God and being upright, a reason why he sent the egoistic Satan away from heaven, and created humans. Later, after the fall of Adam and Eve, God offers grace to redeem fallen humans by sending his son.

“And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, 25 And justifie the wayes of God to men” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {“citationID”:”XjZClCcr”,”properties”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Milton 25)”,”plainCitation”:”(Milton 25)”,”noteIndex”:0},”citationItems”:[{“id”:903,”uris”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FJJY2MHZ”],”uri”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/FJJY2MHZ”],”itemData”:{“id”:903,”type”:”article”,”title”:”Paradise Lost”,”author”:[{“family”:”Milton”,”given”:”John”}],”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“1667″]]}},”locator”:”25″,”label”:”page”}],”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”} (Milton 25)

The phrase is applied in our modern lifestyle that whatever our fate or destiny, it is a justification of the will of God to let each human being experience his grace differently. An assumption to make is that through God’s will, we experience the good side of life. The bad things happen because of our own will and choosing to disobey. Satan is the author of disobedience by choosing to question God’s nature of governance. God protects the human that he had created, Adam and Eve, and sends away Satan and his fellow “bad angels.” According to this light, Milton shows that God’s act of justice is seen from the death, fall, and the story of redemption, seen by sending his son to undergo torture to save humankind from the fall.

In detail, Milton presents his God as one full of mercy and justice. However, the statement is questionable because God seems to favor Adam and Eve who were tempted by Satan, but disqualifies the angels who followed Satan into rebellion against God. The fall for both humans and angels were because of listening to Satan’s deception, however, but God chooses to lessen his punishment upon humans ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {“citationID”:”6vr5yjsG”,”properties”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Lamoreux 1)”,”plainCitation”:”(Lamoreux 1)”,”noteIndex”:0},”citationItems”:[{“id”:904,”uris”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/5NEWXUDF”],”uri”:[“http://zotero.org/users/local/rEYGfGF8/items/5NEWXUDF”],”itemData”:{“id”:904,”type”:”article”,”title”:””Justifying the Ways of God to Man”” in Milton’s Paradise Lost””