英国文学——简析《失乐园》

A Brief Analysis of Paradise Lost

Created as children of God, Adam and Eve lived happily in the Garden of Eden. They owed the paradise, as well as got incomparable rights and enjoyed unrivalled happiness. In the paradise, they named kinds of bionts and made friends with them. All senses seem perfect, until Satan was appeared and prevailed on Eve to pick the forbidden fruit.

Be tempted to eat the forbidden fruit, we considered it as degeneration ,Adam and Eve had made human's pardoned crime, in terms of that, it is an “inevitable and enticing”incident actually. Then I’ll make a brief analysis of the Paradise Lost.

For Adam and Eve:

Described as the most powerful creatures in the world, Adam had the ability to labor and got corresponding harvest, as well as absolute rights in his paradise except the tree of knowledge. But he was a bit greedy, he felt lonely and implored God created a fere for him, therefore Eve was born. Eve was created by Adam’s rib, she was destined to be dominated by Adam, or we can say, woman is birth to be dominated by man, this is , in my opinion, one of what writer want to say, but it is less important. Adam and Eve ate delicious fruit and owed sheer freedom, they could have lived carefree, but they were unable to immune to the temptation and finally ate the apple .

What’s a pity!

As son of God, Adam was once pride of him and gained full affection from him. Just because of that, God created a woman called Eve to accompany with Adam. They loved each other and shared all things ---this was the reason that why Adam finally ate

the forbidden fruit. After that, they possessed wisdom and quickly realize what they like actually! They felt ashamed because of their nude, and tried to find the way to disguise themselves. Then Adam and Eve were punished by God and driven out the Paradise. At last, , human's degeneration came in.

The humanity has created the civilization because of the display wisdom; and got the curse because of abused the wisdom. The fertile soil grown into the thorn, green wilderness became wilderness, the sunny sky became something fishy, limpid rivers drifted sewages. If human nature was impacted evilly, it’ll cause fearful consequence--the destruction. Human beings may lost the right to get eternal life (grows continually), on the contrary, human is stem from the dust, then

he will regress in the dust. This is an ancient but ever new alarm bell.

For Satan:

Satan is identified as heinousness chronically in people’s eyes. At the beginning, he was the most prestigious angel and possessed incomparable strength. As time goes by, he felt the hypocrisy and dictatorship among angels. In order to change the status, he decided to revolt. He is a negative character in the poem, but at the same time, he is also a warrior, who dare to resist unfair treatment. True, he is treacherous to trick Eve to pick the forbidden fruit and lead human’s degeneration, I think he is a a fierce and powerful person, just like Cao Cao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Though his resist was failed, he was not given up insist on fighting until he was exterminated.

Satan is a tragic character in the poem, he compromised himself by rebelling God as well as led to human beings’degeneration. On the other hand, Satan’s behaviors

are also obbligato in human’s process of development, is it right?