John Milton’s ‘Chaotic’ Satan
This article investigates the affi nity between the characters of Satan and Chaos in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. My aim is to show the connections between those characters that appear surprising in the light of Milton’s professed theodicy. On closer inspection certain contradictions become manif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of English Studies
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/26-1-articles/Anglica_26-1_TJablonski_23-41.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the affi nity between the characters of Satan and Chaos in John
Milton’s Paradise Lost. My aim is to show the connections between those characters that
appear surprising in the light of Milton’s professed theodicy. On closer inspection certain
contradictions become manifest, which may enable analysis of the epic not usually advocated
by Miltonic criticism. I propose a fusion of more or less customary Paradise Lost’s
criticism with 20th century’s existential philosophy exemplified by Nicolai Berdjaev |
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| ISSN: | 0860-5734 0860-5734 |