Genesis and Paradise Lost Essay -- Religion, God, Satan, Milton

The wrangling God speaks at the mental institution are the ultimate and original speech act as narrated in Genesis and nirvana Lost, God completely has to speak and the words discern into effectAnd God said, allow there be light and there was light... (Genesis, 13)Let there be light, said God, and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, vinyl ether pure Sprung from the deep...(VII.243)Milton inverts the arrangement of the identification of the voice and the spoken words themselves, thus absorbing Gods voice entirely into the poetic lines.sSatan is an inveterate liar who abuses terminology for his stimulate evil purposes. Satans language is Ambiguous and with double sense deluding (Paradise Regained, I.435), whereas the Sons language (and by extension Gods) enforces a kind of linguistic harmony where Thy actions to thy words accord (Paradise Regained, III.9). In Paradise Lost, Satans ambiguous words (V.703, VI.568) act as persuasive traps, replete with guile (IX.737, 733) . He utters high words, that bore affinity of worth not substance (I.528), and it is worth bearing this in mind should you be tempted to succumb to his enticing rhetoric, as Eve or, more recently the poets Shelley and Blake get under ones skin been cognisen to do Gods words are necessarily congruent with their pith (God is unable to lie). But while Satan lacks the power of speech acts, he has the sophistical ability to dissemble.In the beginning of Book I of Paradise Lost, true to epic convention, John Milton invokes the muse, but his muse is no slight than the Holy SpiritAnd chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer in advance all Temples th upright heart and pure,Instruct me, for Thou knowst Thou from the firstWast present, and with mighty wings outspreadDove-l... ...a child whose only reply from parental authority was an unsatisfying Because I said so But then such children grow up and search for their own answers.Blakes point begins to make sense if Paradise Lost is evaluat ed on its poetic success and its theological failure. Milton was a true Poet, and of the Devils party without knowing it in that his poetry unwittingly brought Satan to keep while trying to destroy him. Satan, warts and all, is probably the most memorable posture in the poem and likely all readers retain of it. Similarly Miltons theology is so weak and flawed that it opens the door to a devastating philosophical counterattack. In trying to justify God, Milton actually accomplishes the opposite as demonstrated by the failure of Book III. For Blake, Milton the Epic Poet ultimately trumps Milton the Christian Apologist who surely desired otherwise.