John Milton Research Paper

John Milton and Paradise Lost

John Milton was a poetry composer in the early eighteen-hundreds who wrote “Paradise Lost.”Milton talks about paradise being heaven and how we would have had heaven if Adam and Eve did not sin. Some of us may wonder, how can there be trouble and sin in paradise? (Langford). Adam and Eve had perfect communion with God, but sin entered and made them afraid of God and ran from him. Maybe some of us even wonder if Adam and Eve did not sin, what would this earth be like? John Milton was born in 1608 to his parents John and Sara Milton. John Milton Sr. was a scientist, composer, and a notary. Milton, as a child, received very excellent education due to their great wealth. Milton studied Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew and Italian languages. Although Milton liked those studies, his passion was music and literature. Milton started composing poetry at a very young age and was very good at writing poems. Milton became a well known rhetoric and public speaker. In 1642, Milton became married to Mary Powell who left him shortly after the wedding. He was to be married two

Milton believes that people who are found in God are apart of a royal priesthood. Milton also states that those who are not found in God, will have to suffer the consequences of God’s wrath. (Langford) Milton, along with his beliefs went on to write Paradise Lost. Milton took his views on the Fall of Man and made a poem out of the event. Milton used the knowledge of the Bible and a brief account of the Fall of Man in Genesis 2. “Paradise Lost” concerns the sinful nature of man and how quickly sin can ruin communion with God. The characters in the poem include: God, the Son, Satan, Adam and Eve, the good and bad angels. The poem also includes the struggle between good and evil for the fate of humanity. The first two books of Paradise Lost concerns the Fall and how humanity is