Main directions of the English Literature in the Early Middle ages

31.CREATIVE WORK OF JON MILTON.The greatest poet of the XVII century John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608. Milton’s father was a prosperous scrivener in London. He was also an amateur composerhe created works that made him one of the greatest poets of England. These were his great epic “Paradise Lost” completed by 1667, and then, the second epic “Paradise Regained” and a tragedy, “Samson Agonistes” both written by 1671.John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost is a poetic retelling of the Fall of Man. Its purpose was to justify the ways of God and remove from him all presumed responsibility for Adam and Eve’s sin. However, many readers doubt the poem’s success because of the ambiguous nature of Milton’s God, and some critics believe that Milton, consciously or not, has portrayed an evil God. But this is not the only paradox of character. Upon closer analysis, it is found that there are many contradictions in language and characterisation, which obscure God’s character.While the God of John Milton’s Paradise Lost certainly displays the divine attributes of truth, spirit, immensity, infinity, eternity, omnipresence, omnipotence, unity, vitality, omniscience, an infinitely pure and holy will, grace, faithfulness, and being just, the poem is at times self-contradictory in terms of the language used to describe these. Across the poem, Milton has repeatedly described God in one way and countered himself elsewhere. Contradictions are also uncovered by the divided opinions of characters within the poem. Satan’s criticisms of God’s truth, unity and omnipotence bring to light an alternative interpretation of God that are only implicitlyrenounced by Milton. When all contradictions are considered in tandem, they seem to say that Milton’s God is not divine, but a flawed and mundane being.