![]() During 16 Milton worked as poet, schoolmaster, scholar and head of a growing family. During these travels he became friends with many people who influenced hin and his writings a lot. It were journeys and travels like this that Milton used as a catalyst as he repeatedly left his home and left the isolation of his studies. Milton travelled on the continent especially from 1638 to 1639 and as he could speak French and Italian he was very well prepared for a journey like this. His intention for going to Cambridge was to prepare for ordination and he also hoped to combine his love for poetry and the ministry. Between 16 he went to Cambridge University but was disappointed and "sharply critical of the education he received". As his father was eager to give his son the best education possible John Milton's childhood was mostly given over to study. Grewing up under a Puritan miniter and living in a hard-working tradesmen family Milton became conscious of political and religious questions and discussions very early in his life. "very exacting standards in personal morality and accomplishment high expectations for human institutions (schools, marriage, government, the church) a disposition to challenge and resist institutional authorities who fell short of such standards and a strong need for and high idealism about friendship and love" that lasted forever. In his youth, growing up in London, he developed certain character traits like ![]() He even became close friends with two of his teachers. In school he was taught languages, literature and verse writing in Greek and Latin. Although his father expected him to take orders in the church Milton was more into learning. John Milton was born on 9th December 1608 into a Puritan middle-class family and therefore attended church and catechism very regularly during his youth. Moral truth and not history was his matter in his writings and as a religious person, just like many other people in the seventeenth century, literal truth of the Bible was final what makes the main character of his epic, Satan, an actual existing character. John Milton - An overviewįor many researchers and literary critics John Milton is or was one of the last humanist who were writing in English even though he chose Italian arts as model for his own poems and writings. Milton allows the reader a much fuller access to Satan and especially to the inner working of Satan's mind. Last but not least I try to answer the initial question whether the Satan of John Milton's work can be depicted as epic hero and why this is the case. Furthermore the story of Paradise Lost, as well as Satan himself are analysed in a second step of this work. At first an overview is given about John Milton and his time. To get an overview of Satan and his actions in Milton's Paradise Lost this research paper only focuses on the parts of the poem where he is presented, speaking or where he is appearing. Milton's Satan, as well as other imaginations of him, were mainly created during this period around the 1660s as a result of the establishment of the Church of England. In order to search for his motives and methods one has to look for positive aspects of his actions. As consistently portrayed as something that negates, confuses, misleads and devastates, The character of Satan needs to be analysed in a more global way. Paradise Lost, however, tries to make Satan an heroic figure that the reader is able to identify with. On the one hand it provokes responses that arise from closely held religious or moral values and on the other hand it is a commitment to strict literary interpretation. While the question whether Satan being a hero or not is examined in many literary critics and scholars for ages, this question remains disputed. Nevertheless Satan or the devil is afflicted with mostly negative thoughts as he is the antagonist of God. During the 13th up to the 16th century the devil was discussed very frequently among people of all classes. The character of Satan uses this tension and provokes the reader. John Milton is forcing the reader of Paradise Lost to consider the possibility that Satan may actually be a hero, or at least a character that might be analysed in a more complex way. The question of this paper is if the character of Satan can be depicted as an heroic figure and in how far Satan can be described as epic hero. Up until today this masterpiece is considered as one of the most famous writings of English literature. It was published in a first version in 1667, consisting of ten books and in the final version in 1674, consisting of twelve books. John Milton worte his famous epic poem Paradise Lost at the end of Renaissance.
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