Paradise Lost

Have you ever looked around and thought to yourself that there’s so much evil that it seems like there’s hell on earth? It seems like violence, lust, anger, dishonesty, and ...

Our environment is filled with things that test our character. Sometimes, we successfully overcome these things, and other ...

John Milton was blind by the time he wrote "Paradise Lost" in 1667. Throughout the text, he occasionally ...

What is freedom? Is freedom the ability to do whatever we want whenever we want? Or is freedom ...

In a world that rewards being right, it's very difficult to not pursue and parrot answers. We even ...

Evil things are frightening to many of us unless we are experiencing them from a distance. Sometimes, it ...

Sometimes, we are bombarded with evil: Dark imagery, music, words, and so on, can find their way into ...

Our series “Illustrious Ideas and Illustrations: The Imagery of Gustav Doré” has shown the evil ways of Satan ...

Throughout our series “Illustrious ideas and illustrations: The imagery of Gustav Doré,” we’ve had the opportunity to take ...

In the last part of our extensive series “Illustrious Ideas and Illustrations: The Imagery of Gustav Doré,” we ...

In this series, we’ve focused on Gustav Doré’s illustrations for John Milton's 17th-century epic poem "Paradise Lost." So ...

In this next article, Satan has just finished rallying the rebel angels after they fell to hell. He calls ...

After Satan is cast out from heaven for competing with God, he and his army of rebel angels ...

John Milton began his tragic poem “Paradise Lost” by telling us of a great war in heaven. Wanting ...

Sometimes things happen in life, and we just don’t know how to respond to them. Nowadays, there are ...

Do we want to be better people? Do we want our character to improve? And do you want ...

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at how Keats in his poem “On First Looking Into ...

Sublimity is a word rather like “mystical” in that it is difficult to define exactly what it is, ...

As we come close to the middle of 2020, I’m left asking “What else will happen?” It’s been ...

NEW YORK—From the opening exchange between Satan and Beelzebub, Tom Dulack’s script captivates. Dulack’s take on “Paradise Lost” ...