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“Paradise Lost” 
“Paradise Lost” is an epic, divided into twelve books, or chapters. The characters are God, 
three guardian angels - Raphael, Gabriel and Michael, Sa-tan and his rebel angels, and the first man 
and woman - Adam and Eve. Satan, who revolts against God, draws his side many rebel-angels and 
is driven out of Heaven. They fall down into the fires of Hell. But Satan is not to be overcome. He 
hates God who rules the universe, autocratically. Though banished from Heaven, Satan is glad to 

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have gained freedom. He pities the rebel-angels who have lost life in Heaven for his sake, and 
decides to go on with the war against God. 
Adam and Eve are allowed by God to live, in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden, as long as do 
not eat the apple that grows on the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. Satan, who has been 
driven from the Garden of Eden by the guardian angels, returns at night in the form of a serpent. 
Next morning, the serpent persuades Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and 
to take another one for Adam. Eve tells Adam what she has done. Adam’s reply is described in the 
following way: 
Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length 
First to himself he inward silence broke: _- 
O, fairest of Creation, last and best 
Of all God’s works, creature in whom excelled 
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, 
Holy, divine, amiable or sweet! 
How art thou lost!................................... 
Some cursed fraud 
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, 
And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee 
Certain my resolution is to die. 
How can I live without thee? How forgo. 
Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined, 
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?” 
So Adam decides to eat the fruit for love of Eve. As a punishment, God banishes Adam 
and Eve to the newly created world, where they have to face a life of toil and woe. The angel 
Michael shows Adam a vision of the tyranny and lawlessness which are to befall mankind. 
Milton’s sympathies lie with Adam and Eve, and this shows his faith in man. His Adam and 
Eve are full of energy. They love each other and are ready to meet all hardships together. When 
they are driven out of Eden, Eve says to Adam: 
“..................but now lead on; 
In me is no delay; with thee to go 
Is to stay here; without thee to stay 
Is to go hence unwillingly; thou to me 
Art all things under Heaven, all places thou 
Who for my willful crime art banished hence”. 
Thus, in his “Paradise Lost” John Milton had created the images of Adam and Eve, the first 
men and woman, who were faithful to their love.