I'm studying John Milton in my English class. Could someone help me with these 2 questions? I'm currently studying Paradise Lost and we've just examined the First Satan's Speech from Book 1. I'd reall

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I'm studying John Milton in my English class. Could someone help me with these 2 questions? I'm currently studying Paradise Lost and we've just examined the First Satan's Speech from Book 1. I'd really appreciate your help in answering 2 of the questions related to it: - Hell is described in contrast with Heaven. State which semantic area all the antithesis belong to and try to recognize the message they convey - Does Satan feel equal to God? Why is the power of reason so important? (I'm struggling with the last part of this question) Here's the text: https://rosariomariocapalbo.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/john-milton-paradise-lost-satans-speech/ (it's the first one after the red picture) Thanks in advance :)I'm gonna copy it here so you don't have to use the link: Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,’ Said then the lost archangel, `this the seat That we must change for heav’n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right: furthest from him is best Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme Above his equals. Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor: one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder bath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

12 mag 2017 10:58

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Don't consider these as answers. I was never an English major and these are questions for an English major. I actually know someone who wrote a college senior thesis on "Paradise Lost" but unfortunately she doesn't use email. You may wish to correct your typo, "thunder bath" should be "Thunder hath." For "does Satan feel equal to God," my understanding of the difficult phrase "And what I should be, all but less than he/Whom Thunder hath made greater?" is that Satan feels in Hell he is capable of being almost, but not quite, equal to God. For "why is the power of reason so important," I would guess there is some relation to the statement that is "the mind... can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." I can't address the first question, because the definition and classification of "semantic areas" is specialized and not common knowledge. Does your book contain a short list of names of "semantic areas?" I find the question puzzling. I don't feel that the passage you quoted really does say much comparing Heaven and Hell. Heaven is light, Hell is gloomy; Heaven is happy and full of joy, Hell contains "horrors." Many of the comparisons are implied--he says that Hell is far from God without directly saying Heaven is close to God. And he says that for himself, Heaven is safe, secure (the "Almighty... will not drive us hence") and a place of freedom--again without directly saying that Heaven is the opposite. I wonder if your passage is really the one that contains the "antitheses," or whether there's something clearer, before or after it, that you are supposed to be looking at.

12 maggio 2017

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