Protestant Elements in John Milton’s ‘Par...

Protestant Elements in John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

Author Name : Mini C. P

INTRODUCTION

Scriptures of the entire world are meant to profess two kinds of realities: the earthly and the beyond (heavenly). The same is applicable to the text of the HolyBible in which the descend or the origin of humanity is referred to.John Milton as a poet borrows those facts of the Bible and uses them as plot for his famous Poem, the Paradise Lost. In a wayhe cognizes the truth and so the truth or the facts being mentioned in the Holy Bible is personalised by the poet in the Paradise Lost. Being a staunch believer and   revolutionary thinker, Milton reflects aloud the theological, social and political tensions that prevailed in the seventeenth century Europe and gives an effective resonance to it in his poem.  He was writing, during and after the civil wars in England which brought in chaos, death, misery, uncertainty and confusion in the political field while religious practises and tenets were scrupulous, rudimentary and rule- laden. The religious men were found to be leading uncommitted and worldly lives. Milton desired to challenge and expose all these irregularities prophetically through his epic poem, with the vigour of a literary revolutionary.