On The Theme Of John Milton's Paradise Lost-Humanism

John Milton's Paradise Lost is a political and religious epic. Personifying God and Satan, around their relationships with the human, the thesis analyzes the embodying humanity characteristic and reflecting humanity meditation from the aspect of humanism.The thesis first introduces Milton's life experience and his literary works, and his revolutionary spirit; and discusses epic's source of humanity theme and the relations between epic and theme systematically. The body of the thesis first discusses Satan's humanity~his rebellion and fall, uniting with God's punishment to him. Contrasting with Satan's proud fall, God endows human with great charity and grace before their fall, and after it, they still are punished but being saved through redemption and salvation through the faith. From the point of view of humanism, the thesis analyzes and explains human's freedom and discipline, in Satan's temptation, God's prohibition and human's temperance, and the obedience to God and human's autonomy, including their fall and the function and meditation of reason in this process and a series of humanity problems. By the epic's showing behavior and view of characters, the thesis reveals the advantage and weakness of humanity, and finally, the conclusion analyzes the realistic significance of humanism theme.