ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - In Medias Res, Christian Mythology, Epic Poetry
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Eves, adams, satan"s: milton is messing around with the idea of the origin. The word and idea of first comes up a lot. The fruit seems to be the vehicle of the disobedience but it is also the result of the disobedience. The poem is beginning to make the argument is going to describe man"s first disobedience but also the fruit or result of that disobedience the consequence is paradise lost. The opening line is repeated often: disobedience and then good coming out of it, knowledge tastes like death, eden will be pastoral. All our woe all is a result of this first disobedience. *line 45 he falls for 9 days onto a burning lake in hell. Milton goes out of his way to make satan an epic hero. Individuals that can impose their values on the world great aspirations of renaissance thinkers. He has an interior consistency that will not change.
