4. SECRET TOP 'OREB, OR OF
SINAI
• MILTON WAS INFLUENCED FROM HEBREW
BIBLE (OLD TESTAMENT)
5. THIS EPIC POEM WAS A CULMINATION OF MILTON’S LIFE.
MILTON HAD MANY IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE THE UNITED
KINGDOM. UNFORTUNATELY, HIS IDEAS OF WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE
NATION BECAME UNPOPULAR.
USED THE GREATEST KINGDOM OF ALL TIME AS ALLEGORY- HEAVEN.
GOD, THE ALL-POWERFUL MONARCH, AND SATAN, THE ARCHDEMON
AND ORCHESTRATOR OF THE FALL OF MAN.
PARADISE LOST STRONGLY REFLECTS MILTON’S POLITICAL WRITING, IN
PARTICULAR THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE
COMMONWEALTH
IN THIS POEM THAT HE ILLUSTRATED THE WAY HE BELIEVED TRUE
LEADERS SHOULD ACT, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE SELECTED,
THROUGH THE ACTIONS AND SPEECHES OF SATAN IN HELL.
• MILTON’S POLITICAL INFLUENCES