Once they have both eaten the fruit they commit their first sin –lust – something that has been absent from their ideal, romantic relationship. Adam commits himself to Eve and knowingly also eats from the Tree because of his love for her. Satan disguises himself as a serpent and successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree, using persuasive language and playing on her vanity. In Paradise Lost they are presented as distinct personalities with personalities and passions, enjoying a romantic and sexual relationship without its being sinful. The story of Adam and Eve differs somewhat from that told in Genesis. Satan confronts the perils of the Abyss, and Chaos, the territory outside of Hell, and eventually enters God’s Earth, and finally the Garden of Eden itself. He volunteers to disrupt and corrupt God’s latest creation – Earth – and his most proud creation, Mankind. Satan leads the other rebel angels in a revenge campaign, helped by Mammon, Beelzebub, Belial and Moloch.
The story begins after Satan and the other angels who have rebelled against God have been banished to Tartarus, better known as Hell. There are two narrative thrusts in the poem: one following Adam and Eve and the other following Satan, or Lucifer. Paradise Lost is based on the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by the fallen angel, Satan, and their expulsion from the Garden.
The poem is the basis on which Milton is usually considered one of the greatest English poets. A second version, consisting of twelve books, followed in 1674. Paradise Lost is a blank verse, epic poem by John Milton, first published in 1667. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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