Book 1 paradise lost: We met the rebel angels, had been cast out of heaven, defeated, chained on the

b urning lake. Satan anxiety ridden, pulls himself together, same way aeneis? does in the aeneid, and tries to justify hell. Making the best of a bad situation? Beaten down angels gather, satan gives rousing speech, reviews his troops. References to armies of past battles, references to Uther (arthurian things)? et c, and how much more mightier his army is. Structure of universe part of paradise lost, dealing with the cosmos. When angel s try to decide what to do, try to find new creation that god has made (man), an d leave hell and get to a new planet named earth. Have description of satan going there, to the garden of eden. Idea is that they will go to war, and the consult? carefully arranged, but not g o to war, with god since his troops too formidable. So what they do is go to his new creation (man), and war with them. This is how evil comes in to the world. Having this, they build a new city, Have description of building of pandemonium Have mammon, in charge of building pandemonium. Pandemonium means chaos, but lit erally means a collection of all the demons pan=all, demonia= demons. Literally "all the demons". There is no order, universal chaos, as opposed to the order of heaven, or god's universe. This disorder always a threat to the structured orde r one seeks to impose on the universe. Paradise lost purpose: justify god's ways to man; why he does the things he does ? The demon who builds pandemonium, built like a temple, named mammon, is an under cutting. Mammon, is demon of riches, all he cares for is money? Glorious construct built on violation of the earth (gold mined by mammon and his minions?) Building almost like heaven, seeks to imitate heaven, but is not quit e heaven. Satan like an oriental potentate, with a bad eminance? The consult is a debate on what they are going to do? It is rigged so that beelzebub goes last, and beelzebub is in satan's favor? Moloch (child sacrifice angel) speaks first, calls for brute force, open war, Be lial (appears to be good, though all was false and hollow), propose to wait thin gs out (god may take us back?) Mammon proposes to stay and make money. Beelzebub , next to satan, proposes to get at god without attacking him directly? Satan go es to attack man in the garden of eden? Whole history of birth, of genesis, of sin, and of evil? Death product of incest uous relationship between satan and sin. Death is going to try to kill his fathe r, but cannot be killed due to him being an angel. Death's denouncement of Satan a parody of God's relationship with Jesus. Sin is satan's daughter, and death's mother. Sin popping out of Satan's head a perversi on of the act of human reproduction, (women are not needed?) Issue of innate motherly love, of which sin appears to not possess, after giving birth to death. Incest upon incest, rape, horror, etc. Whole thing similar to c anterbury tales in terms of very clear characterization? Sin is charged by god to guard the gates of hell (she holds the key). Sin is con vinced by satan to let him out. (Evil is let in to the world by sin). Next encou

nters chaos, forms alliance with him. Evil is let out of the world, everything that has happened so far is according t o god's plan? Whole thing is explanation of "if god is good, why is evil let in to the world?" Light associated with understanding, awareness, etc, and is associated with god. Blindness/insight, only when one is blind, one can truly "see", because does not have to deal with vision, considered unimportant? Blind bards a trope, Homer fi rst one, Milton was also blind. God made man sufficient to stand, yet free to fall.