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PARADISE REGAINED John Milton

PARADISE REGAINED John Milton. Paradise Regained.

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PARADISE REGAINED John Milton

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  1. PARADISE REGAINEDJohn Milton

  2. Paradise Regained • It is an epic by John Milton which was first published in 1671, consists of four books. There are similar theological themes with Paradise Lost. Instead of Adam and Eve, in the book temptation of Christ is depicted.The story is based on the Gospel of Luke.

  3. Jesus rejects to commit three sins (gluttony, vainglory, avarice) although Satan struggles for this. • Critics think about why Satan tries to tempt him. Is it just Satan’s nature or is it just because of the name “Son of God”? • According to Pope and Lewalsky Satan is confused by the name “Son of God”. He is uncertain about Christ’s identity although he is very ambitious.

  4. It is said that there is a competition between Satan and Jesus Christ in terms of heroic knowledge. • “The poem juxtaposes what he considers to be the two competing theories of knowledge in the seventeenth century: Satan, the empiric, advocates knowledge derived externally from sense impression and used for power: Christ, the platonic, represents pure thought, inaccessible to the senses”

  5. Milton’s style • John Milton’s major poems have similar structural patterns • The trial and proof of the protagonist followed by an extension of grace accompanied by a miraculous event. • Similar to Paradise Lost, Satan tries to use seven deadly sins • However, if Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are compared to each other, Paradise Regained is flatter and drier. • Milton uses an abbreviated style • He combines sentences with “and” or “or” which is very common in Paradise Regained. (Especially in Satan’s speeches with Jesus Christ).

  6. Parody in Paradise Regained • Abrams states that parody, “imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work.”In Milton's Paradise Regained, we could say, according to Abrams's definition, that Milton's brief epic imitates the New Testament to a certain extent, since Milton's Paradise Regained is an imitation of Luke's exposition of Satan's temptation of Christ in the wilderness.

  7. The plot of Paradise Regained imitates Luke's structure in chapter four of his gospel. In both works, Satan begins the temptation of Jesus while Jesus is wondering in the wilderness. In addition, Satan tempts Jesus in three different ways. First, Satan tempts Jesus to feed himself by way of a miracle. Second, Satan offers Christ all the kingdoms of the world if Christ will submit to Satan's authority. Lastly, Satan brings Christ to the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem, where after Satan's final temptation of Christ, Jesus remains faithful and obedient to his father, and as a result is victorious over Satan.

  8. Milton develops his parody even further by adding a luxurious banquet of foods in comparison to the simple “bread” mentioned in Luke's gospel. In Book II, we are told: • A table richly spread, in regal mode,With disher piled, and meats of noblest sortAnd savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game,In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled,Grisamber-steamed; all fish from sea or shore,Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin...Alas how simple, to these cates compared,Was that crude apple that diverted Eve!And at a stately sideboard by the wineThat fragrant smell diffused...(340-351).

  9. This “first supper” would symbolically identify the alliance between Satan and Christ. Furthermore, the banquet could also be a parody of the New Testament Last Supper,where Christ also made a symbolic alliance with his apostles.

  10. The Last Supper by Leonardo Da VinciThe painting represents the scene of the last supper from the final days of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of John

  11. Satan's second temptation of Christ is also a parody on the second temptation mentioned in Luke's gospel, and Milton's choice to do so, again, reveals Satan's desire to replace Christ's authority with that of his own authority. • For the second temptation Satan offers the ultimate temporal kingdom to Christ, Rome. “Thou on the throne of David in full glory, / From Egypt to Euphrates and beyond/ Shalt rign, and Rome or Ceasar not need fear” (III, ll383-385).

  12. According to some critics, the Jesus of Paradise Regained is partly Milton himself. • It is said that Jesus’ classical education is typical of seventeenth-century Cambridge rather than first century Galilee. • His whole concept of Jesus’ development reflects his own. • Jesus’ aim is to secure for his people • Milton also struggled for Commonwealth as a Puritan.

  13. It is also said that Milton’s Paradise Regained is influenced by Vergil’s Georgics. • The two works are about the same length and each is divided into four books. • Both poems are in the middle style, by which he means not a flat level but a style that allows for frequent oscillations upward and downward from a middle way.

  14. Both poems are essentially similar in spirit because both sre didactic. • Both of them look forward to a future when heroic deeds will be done and celebrated and the world will be changed.

  15. Christ's troubled sleep from Milton's 'Paradise Regained', Book IV lines 401-25, c.1816-18William Blake

  16. Blake’s Illustration of Paradise Regained

  17. Christ tempted by Satan to turn the stones to bread

  18. Christ refusing the banquet offered by Satan

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