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"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

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Burkett, Kristen A.

Abstract:

This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...

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Masters Thesis

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now lament” (12) and explores what it is like to be separated from God2. Danielle St. Hilaire, on