Sorry to ask this but.... Can someone summerize what Paradise Lost is about?

Question

Im not looking for cliff notes or any links etc. Just a quick idea. The reason I ask is that I also saw a book titled "Paradise Regained" and am wondering if Its the argument against the book or whatever.

Answer 1

check out the wikipedia entry for Paradise Regained. It deals with salvation and Jesus's temptation by Satan in the desert. Not really an argument against but just a further expansion from another side of the issue.

Answer 2

Paradise Regained is also by Milton, and a sequel of sorts. Paradise Lost ends with Adam and Eve leaving the Garden of Eden after their fall. Regained begins with a recap, and the point is for Adam/ Eve to come to Christ.
In "Lost", Satan is really, really an interesting character in comparison to God and Jesus who are really dry and boring. For that reason, some people suggest Satan is a kind of Byronic type hero in the poem. Milton certainly didn't intend to glorify Satan, but in making him so verbal and passionate, he definitely appeals to today's audience, more than his righteous brother and father.

Answer 3

John Milton paraphrased it best when he declared his purpose for writing it as to "justify the ways of God to man." He thought if he could write in grand epic style of the classics an explanation of God's actions, then more people could understand and accept a religious life. The fall of Satan led to Paradise Lost; Jesus Christ is the way to Paradise Regained.

Answer 4

"Paradise Lost", by the 17th-century English poet John Milton, is an epic poem about the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

It's also boring has hell if you ask me :)

Answer 5

Its a very long-winded story about the epic struggle between good and evil. To be more specific, its humanity's struggle with the forces of evil and the hope for a divine victory. Don't think I can make it any simpler.