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- Title
Rebellion in Paradise Lost: Impossible Original.
- Authors
Forsyth, Neil
- Abstract
This article examines the notion of rebellion in John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Rebellion among the gods is a narrative that comes down from antiquity in various forms. Hesiod's "Theogony" has been especially influential, and Milton makes various uses of Hesiod. Prophecy about the future power of the two main son-figures, Zeus and Heracles, is also what initiates the sequences of war and reconciliation. The "Theogony" is a special variant of the rebellion paradigm designed to protect its hero Zeus from the implication that it was he who rebelled against the established order of the older gods. It is argued that the two-sidedness of rebellion narratives allows for the richness of suggestion found in Milton's variant.
- Subjects
INSURGENCY in literature; PARADISE Lost (Poem : Milton); MILTON, John, 1608-1674; GODS in literature; NARRATIVE poetry; EPIC poetry
- Publication
Milton Quarterly, 1996, Vol 30, Issue 4, p151
- ISSN
0026-4326
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1094-348X.1996.tb00874.x