Further thoughts on Paradise
Milton wrote from the purely Biblical perspective, but that is not the only way to look at or resolve the same mythical problems of suffering and death and how we got some good, important things to make life better. In the accounts of Genesis, Biblical and earlier, the serpent is Satan, the Adversary, the Liar--a clear villain. But what he gives Man, is the fruits of knowledge, of awareness of right and wrong... in other words, morality and ethics. In the Greek mythos, it was Prometheus who... Sign in to see full entry.