ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Action Hero
5 Dec 2012
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Wandering in the desert, and extension on adam and eve"s wandering. Milton"s quite a serious dude, who"s always wanted to do something that serves the people. He basically wanted to be an action hero. Desert is a metaphor for withdrawing in to himself (the son) In this symbolic desert, he meets satan, which suggests that satan is some part of himself. Satan is also serving god at this point. He"s now god"s flunky, working for him rather than against him. They need to wait instead of trying to push things to happen. When christ goes up, satan will go down. Satan is pressing for revelation and christ is withholding it. Christ goes on about how he doesn"t need food, just spiritual nourishment. Satan"s dressed as a shepherd (false pastor) He"s kind of limited: it worked with eve, why not with the son.
