Paradise+Lost

=**Paradise Lost Questions﻿ (Olivia)**= Satan was cast out of heaven for his revolt against God. He stages a great battle against the Almighty, which therefore challenges his authority. Obviously you can't challenge something Omnipotent, and therefore, Lucifer was cast out.
 * 1.) For what sin was Satan cast out of heaven? ﻿**

Lucifer is kept from God's light, and kept in a 'dungeon' like situation. Hell is depicted in the Core as a giant, boxed in furnace.
 * 2.) How is Satan imprisoned in Hell?**

Beelzebub (but he admits what they did was wrong, whereas Satan sees nothing amiss with his defiance against God).
 * 3.) Which of the fallen angels is next in command to Satan?**

Satan thinks God cheated. The only way that he beat Satan was through his use of thunder.
 * 4.) What reason does Satan give for God's victory over him?**

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Through defiance, Lucifer is going to make the best of his punishment, and manage to irritate God from below. His perception is that he is going to wage war with God by getting under his skin -- Lucifer is supposed to be undergoing a punishment through his banishment, instead he's going to perceive Hell as his own personal reward. His own fiery kingdom.
 * 5.) How does Satan plan to continue his resistance to God?**

=Paradise Lost Genre & Epic Form (Jeremy)= **Epic Form:** Literary Epic, Secondary Epic
 * Genre:** Epic

 =** Overall Plot and Setting (Doug) **=

This story is an creative elaboration on the first section of //Genesis//.


 * Beginning **
 * A battle rages in heaven with Satan at the center. He is banished to hell by god with his fallen angels.
 * God’s new creation, the universe is perfect so Satan, still scorned wishes to corrupt it.
 * God then creates Adam and Eve, the humans. Satan would like to corrupt them.
 * Raphel warns Adam not to eat the apples from the tree.

- Satan is banished after being found by Gabriel, and then returns to Earth as a serpent and tricks Eve into eating the apple, Adam is then caught by god eating the apple.
 * Climax **

Satan builds a path to Earth from hell
 * Falling Action **
 * The sinners are spared, Satan is turned into a serpent upon return to heaven
 * Adam and Eve are sent away from the Garden, now sinners but excited over the coming savior of mankind


 * Setting **

During this section of the text, the story takes place within hell, before the creation of the universe after Satan has been banished. Milton’s version of hell seems to satisfy the preconceptions that modern society has created. Hell is a horrible place, as depicted within Core. The author goes into great detail to create the impression of an ever burning furnace, full of “sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell”. It is a nesting ground for sinners, a place filled with eternal darkness and never ending suffering. It is a place designed to show how Satan has fallen out of God’s light and into the opposite of heaven.