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Christianity and Greek desperate Tradition as Devices for Miltons Object in heaven Lost The astray known story of the Genesis cast in the Bible of the inception and fall of humankind does not make for a very kindle story. Almost anyone familiar with Western tradition can provide at least this basic outline God makes angels, the best angel wants to be God, the angel gets kicked out of Heaven into Hell, goes to the garden of Eden, persuades Eve to eat an apple, and belt down plunges worldly concern. So why, then, did Milton choose to use this particular piece of Biblical narrative, first, supra his original intention of an Arthurian tale, and second, above any another(prenominal) account in the 66 books of the Old and red-hot Testaments? Milton answers these questions both simply and mysteriously in the beginning of the poem What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low sex and support/ That to the heighth of this great Argument/ I may assert unending Providence/ And justify t he ways of God to men (Milton 47). The question that humanity begs an answer for, above all, is the reason for the rampant evil in the world. many a(prenominal) people over the last several centuries, and many Christians even, cannot reconcile the universe of unchecked evil along slope a loving, merciful God. Milton would heartily insure that characteristics of God can be found in any dapple in the Bible (and so he did draw from these in other works), but within Miltons enlightened seventeenth-century society, the scientific process itself dictated that to bust the meaning of any process, one had to go back to the catalytic moment. In order to answer the most theologically difficult question this side of B.C., Milton had no choice but to go back to the beginning and see, with what... ...adise Lost. ed. doubting Thomas Kranidas. Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, 1969. 118-130. Epic. Encyclopdia Britannica. 2015. Web 30 April 2015.http//www.britannica.com/ eb/article?eu=119368. Ferry, Anne. Miltons Epic illustration The Narrator in Paradise Lost. Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1963. Milton, John. Encyclopdia Britannica. 2015. Web 30 April 2015.http//www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=115562. Milton, John. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. New York Signet Classics, 1968. New American Standard Bible. 2015. Web 30 April 2015.https//www.biblegateway.comRicks, Christopher. Introduction. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. By John Milton. New York Signet Classics, 1968. vii- xxx. Webber, Joan Malory. Milton and His Epic Tradition. Seattle and London University of Washington Press, 1979.