Ībout Me Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges Location: Seoul, South Korea If I wanted to get picky, however, I'd note that Satan is not "flying up towards Eden" because he doesn't yet know of Eden rather, he's flying up towards the universe, in search of mankind, of whom he has somehow heard a rumor.
I thought this 'critique' was hilarious, and so did some of the scholars at the Milton List, but other scholars there were annoyed at the humor - reading it more as sophomoric ridicule of Milton than as humorous parody of blogger-style critique (though even if it were the former, it'd still be funny. Respect other people's work, Milton! Did God really have to speechify all the way through to the end of time? It's like a bad crossover, where one issue spoils the other. Letting alone that this is a kind of a reverse-villain's speech, he's totally ruining it for those who haven't read the Bible. He talks about man's fall, he talks about Jesus's saving of humanity, he talks about how Satan will eventually be defeated once and for all, and how there shall be an eternal paradise. I mean God keeps gabbing until he reaches the book of Revelation. And when I say, "the whole story," I don't mean just sucking the tension out of Paradise Lost. That's as good an explanation as any.īut then he goes on to spoil the whole story.
#PARADISE LOST BOOK 3 FREE#
He remarks to his Son that he knows what Satan is going to do, and in fact he knows what Adam and Eve will do as well - give in to Satan and fall from heaven - but he's not going to interfere, because he needs to allow everyone to have free will. Milton has God looking down at Satan flying up towards Eden.
I've often found God to be a bit underdeveloped in books. This is an interstitial book that's more focused on character study than actual plot development. One of the scholars on the Milton List linked to a very funny blog entry by Esther Inglis-Arkell on " 10 Ways John Milton's Paradise Lost Is Like a Bad Comic Book," and here's what she writes about Book Three: God the Father Offering Right-Hand Throne to Christ
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