This paper critically examines redemption in John Milton's Paradise Regained, focusing on the journey from disobedience to obedience, Adam to Christ, and the great fall and rising. Spiritual ideas about regaining paradise are clearly observed and analysed. From Adam to Christ, a gap shadows the redemption where Christ is the hero of the redemption who completed the plan of salvation by emptying human sin drawn in eternity. From the poet’s agony on the great fall, a generation gap, and through trials and tribulations of Christ, the gateway of heaven gets opened. Christ recreates the ecstasy of joy through redemption. The intention and need for sin removal throughout the generation have been fulfilled. Thus the biblical verses describe Milton’s poem in a deep manner taken to ponder over the insights on how man was redeemed from sin and perfection of redemption is presented.
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Volume 1 | Issue 1 | Year 2023 | Article Id: LLL-V1I1P103 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/LLL-V1I1P103
Critical Analysis of the Redemption of Mankind in John Milton's "Paradise Regained"
F. Flora Jannet
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| 11 Feb 2023 | 23 Feb 2023 | 16 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2023 |
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F. Flora Jannet. “Critical Analysis of the Redemption of Mankind in John Milton's "Paradise Regained".” DS Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 15-19, 2023.
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Salvation, Disobedience, The inner man, Temptation, Great rescue
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