According to the setting of the poem Paradise lost, discuss the theme of it.
A. The theme is the "Fall of Man" I.e., Man's disobedience and the loss of paradise, with its prime cause—Satan. In heaven, Satan led a rebellion against God. Defeated, he and his rebel angels were cast into hell. However, Satan refused to accept his failure, vowing that "all was not lost" and that he would seek revenge for his downfall. B. Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men. At the center of the conflict between human love and spiriyual duty lies Milton's fundamental concern with freedom and choice; the freedom to submit to God's prohibition and the choice of disobedience made for love. Milton raises the problem of the evil in a more intractable form. Milton held that God created all things out of himself, including evil. There was evil in heaven before Satan rebelled. C. His poem attempts to convince us that an all-knowing God was just in allowing Adam and eve to be tempted and, of their free will, to choose sin and its inevitable punishment.
