In his tenderness and friendship for man Raphael shows dignity in all his speech and behavior proper for a supreme nature. God and Christ, the two supreme characters, are outside the range of They are God, Christ, the two good and evil angels, and Adam and Eve. The characters in Milton’s Paradise Lost are the most sublime that human beings can conceive. The principal characters must have dignity and sublimity. An epic introduces a number of characters. Basically it is the story of human action.Įpic poetry represents persons action the story. It is the story of the Fall of man and his redemption by the Son of God. The interest of Paradise Lost transcends the limits of a nation. “His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings the overthrow of their host, and the punishment of their crime the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures their original happiness and innocence.” In respect of its theme Paradise Lost is superior to other classical epics. It is also managed by Milton with remarkable skill.” Dr. the theme of paradise Lost is the finest ever chosen for heroic poetry. It must be some theme of national interest. It should be grand, elevated and marvelous, but not unconvincing and improbable. It has universal interest.Īccording to Aristotle the theme of an epic must be “probable and marvelous”. the theme of Paradise Lost is vaster, more magnificent and stupendous than that of epic of Homer or Virgil. There are only short digressions at the beginning of the third and the seventh book. The events are described in a distinct manner, and grow out of one another in the natural order. The action of Paradise Lost is contrived in Hell, executed upon Earth, and rounded off in Heaven. The action has a beginning, a middle and an end. the creation of the world, Satan’s fight with Sin and Death are episodes related to the main action. The fall of Satan is only a prelude to the main action. The subject should be so serious and exalted as to merit the epithet ‘universal’ So far as the theme of Paradise Lost is concerned, it is the Fall of Man and and Man’s Redemption through Christ, the Son of God. As regards the theme whether in the form of narration or verse, it should be based on a single and complete action having beginning, middle and end.
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