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This 7 page report discusses poet John Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost” and argues against J. Martin Evans’ assertion that the work was what he refers to as the “deeply ambivalent cultural responses to the colonization of the New World.” Bibliography lists one source.
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of a world in which the eloquence and prevarication of Satan the speaker titillated the reader more than the stately silence of the heavens. Throughout the epic, Satan is presented
as a misshapen contradiction of God and Christ. Obviously, Milton intended his readers to be aware of the biblical parallels. Yet twentieth century readers often miss these parallels as
the Protestant translations that Milton drew from lost their both their applicability and overriding popular acceptance. As a result, Miltons great epic is thought to be primarily an allegorical
tale of colonialism in the New World opening up in the 16th and 17th centuries. Instead, it better serves the time,
the events, and the historical context of the day to see "Paradise Lost" primarily as a Biblical myth that may then be applied to the process of the "civilized" worlds
expansion into new lands. John Milton drew ideas considerably from biblical books, such as "Joel" and "Ecclesiastes," and inverted those ideas when writing "Paradise Lost." Therefore, it would appear
that his intent was more to the creation and parallel telling of Biblical epics in his modern times rather than the more widely accepted counterpart of applying the practice and
intent of colonialism as an example of divinely inspired imperialistic politics and unabashed expansionism. Arguing with Evans "Imperial Epic" In J. Martin Evans "Miltons Imperial Epic: Paradise Lost and the
Discourse of Colonialism," published in 1996, the author presents what sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europeans were told about the land and peoples of the New World and about the experiences and
attitudes of their conquerors and Europes colonial outposts. Evans (1996) makes a valuable contribution to the study of Milton and his time, in general, in his arguments to convince readers:
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