Milton’s Quotes
• 2.Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
• 上天堂尽职，不如下地狱独裁。
Milton’s Quotes
• 3.The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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• Milton set out for Europe when he was 30. He met Galileo in Florence, and was greatly touched and inspired by him.
• In 1642, at the age of 34, Milton married Mary Powell, age 17,shortly after,she left him and return to live with her mother .In 1645,he and his wife ton lost his sight due to overwork in 1652 and his wife died while giving the couple's third children.
• In 1632, Milton took his M.A.(Master of Arts) at Cambridge, after which he retired to the family homes, and did 6 years of private study and literary composition.
• No matter what happened,he never yield to God.
• The poet condemned God through Satan's words. On the surface, God had given human free will.In fact,he had suppressed the true freedom.Obviously, the poet's criticism and condemnation of God were out from the social reality of United Kingdom.
John Milton
• John Milton was born in 1608 in London. His parents had six children, and he was one of the three who survived.
• In 1625, Milton was admitted to Christ‘s College, Cambridg.
early period
• On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(基督诞生晨颂)
• L’Allegro (快乐的人 IL ) • Penseroso( 幽思的人) • Comus ( 科玛斯) • Lycidsas (利西达斯)
the middle prose pamphlets
• Areopagitica (论自由出版) 1644 • Defense of the English People (为英国人
民声辩）1651 • Second Defense of the English People
（再为英国人民声辩）1654
the last great poem
• Paradise Lost (1667) • Paradise Regained (1671) • Samson Agoniste (1671) (力士参孙)
• 从小能看大，就像清晨看白天。
Milton’s Quotes
• 4.Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
• 死亡是打开永久宫殿的金钥匙 。
Milton’s Quotes
• 5.One tongue is sufficient for a woman.
• In 1656,he remarried,but she died in childbirth a year later,ending"the happiest time"in Milton's life.
• In 1663,Milton got a third wife,since his rebellious daughter would not care for him.He was fully blind.
Features
• Milton is a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century.
• Milton is a great stylist. His poetry has a grand style.
• Milton is a great master of blank verse.
• Then,God let them leave the Garden of Eden.Instead, they went into the Paradise Lost and were punished.
• Finally,Satan became the snake and lost his wings and legs,and was detest by people.
• 女人只要一根舌头就够了 。
• Satan
Character
• God
•Adam •Eve
• Adam and Eve were created by God.One day Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit,which was not allowed by God because of Satan's tempatation.
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• Milton died peacefully of gout(痛风) in 1674. His funeral was attended by “his learned and great Friends in London, not without a friendly concourse(集合) of the Vulgar(平民， 百姓)”.
• Adam must work hard all his life and then can get food.
• Eve would have the pain of childbearing and she must followed her husband.
• All of John Milton's great works,Paradise Lost is the most complicated and most profound one,and the satan was the most successful image. The story were taken from The Old Testament.
• It tell us that human are short of comprehensive thinking,so they can be affected by others easily.They always choose wrong ways and lose what they want and get punishment.
• The image of Satan in Paradise Lost is extremely complex and subtle.
• Satan in the Bible is an image of devil. But in Paradise Lost, Satan challenges the authority of God and want to be free, he is a fighter for freedom. The poet portrayed Satan as a brave hero that went to get rid of god's domination.