ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Thicket
5 Dec 2012
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Very miltonic: we start down low, in the dark, in hell, then we proceed up to heaven, in the light. Then we go to eden, which is kind of in the middle. and it"s evening, which means that it"s neither dark or light. Narrator breaks in for a bit and wishes that someone will warn them against the evils of satan. This shows that the narrator has foreknowledge, but is unable to do anything about it. This draws a parallel between him and god. This pulls the attention towards god"s foreknowledge and adam and eve"s freewill. Since he feels that having god reassert his inability to act doesn"t work, so he must use narrative techniques to make us understand. He"s showing us that we, too, are in the same situation as god. The first thing that milton wrote was satan"s hymn to the sun. Thus coming to book four brings us to a genesis.
