God Has Feelings Too
The purpose, Milton tells the reader, of his epic poem Paradise Lost is to “justify the ways of God to men” (1.26). Milton attempts to do this by humanizing both God and Satan. As Dennis Richard Danielson points out, “Milton seeks to strengthen his argument by means of the assumption that certain norms of meaningfulness are common to God and man alike” (Richardson 103). Although Satan is portrayed as a character who possesses qualities that many people can relate to, including ambition, determination, imperfection (shown by his failure to overthrow God) and spitefulness toward authority, Milton also shows that God is superior. It is by examining the reasoning behind God’s creation of Adam and Eve, the location God chose for Adam and Eve to live, and the way God treated them, that Milton is able to explain the ways of God to man. In Paradise Lost, Milton clearly indicates that God was a loving God and is also vulnerable to the effects his creations’ decisions have on Him. Milton does not describe the creation of the angels, but the Christian faith teaches that God created everything, including Heaven and the angels. When one-third of God’s angels rebel against him, he becomes very angry at the delib
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