失乐园英文读后感
失乐园英文读后感
失乐园英文读后感 The success f Miltn s Paradise Lst es much t the depictin f the main epicimage f Satan hse attributes enable him t achieve tragic status. Althugh Satan may be an epic machine, he is best prtrayed as the tragic anti-her f paradise Lst. The critics in the rld have been cncerning the image f Satan in Paradise Lst, hse plexity makes the pem mre cntrversial.The reasn hy the image under Miltn s pen is s plex is that the Satan attracts the pet s inner frce, hich drives him t change the peple s traditinal ideas and cause resnance f all the revlutinaries. Satan in the Bible is an image f devil. But in Paradise Lst, Satan challenges the authrity f Gd and ant t be free, he is a fighter fr freedm. The pet prtrayed Satan as a brave her that ent t get rid f gd s dminatin. In Paradise Lst, the Satan as the mst successful image the authr shaped.The allure f free ill is here the attractiveness and per f Satan's character lies. Stanley Fish in his essay, The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lst, argues that Satan pssesses a frm f herism hich is easy t admire because it is visible and flambyant and that, n that basis, Satan s attractiveness is nly initial. Miltn as, undubtedly, cnscius that he as in danger f prtraying Satan as t much f a heric figure and made effrts t be little him thrugh the use f unflattering imagery, and by highlighting his less plimentary characteristics. Nnetheless, ur emtins are still fired. ur first encunter ith Satan and his rebel hsts ccurs in Bk I, hen they are recvering frm the shck f having been expelled frm heaven by the Sn after three days f fighting the angels f Gd. Despite the defeat he has suffered, Satan gains ur admiratin by displaying resilience in quickly ing t terms ith the change in his circumstances, in remustering his frces and rganizing
the building f his palace, Pandemnium. At the same time he demnstrates his determinatin nt t be defeated and shs true qualities f leadership, persuasively arguing that there is still hpe fr battle and victry. Satan is cnvincing in his first speech t Beelzebub, his chief partner in crime, as he declares: hat thugh the field be lst? All is nt lst; the uncnquerable ill, And study f revenge, immrtal hate, And curage never t submit r yield: And hat is else nt t be vere? That glry never shall his rath r might Extrt frm me. Althugh Satan may be an epic machine, he is best prtrayed as the tragic anti-her f Paradise Lst r, at the very least, a main character h pssesses the stature and attributes hich enable him t achieve tragic status. In the Greek traditin, the essential pnents f tragedy are admiratin, fear and pity fr the her , h has t display a tragic eakness
r fla in his character, hich ill lead t his dnfall. It might be argued that the flas in Satan s character are such that e shuld feel n admiratin, fear r pity fr him, yet he can be seen t inspire these emtins. Satan s tragic flas are pinted ut in Bk I. They are envy, pride, and ambitin tards self-glrificatin. Satan s pride, in particular, is stressed thrughut Paradise Lst. The pet cndemned Gd thrugh Satan s rds. n the surface, Gd had given human free ill; in fact, he had suppressed the true freedm.bviusly, the pet's criticism and cndemnatin f Gd ere ut frm the scial reality f United Kingdm. The tyrant as the embdiment f Stuart. Miltn laid his n plitical tendencies in the great Satan. He prtrayed Satan's resistance as the justice resistance t authritarian rule and a bld challenge t the vilent regime.