Milton’s Portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and the Notion of Heroism
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, May 2015
Pages:
22-28
Received:
16 April 2015
Accepted:
29 April 2015
Published:
12 May 2015
Abstract: This paper examines the question whether Satan is really the hero of John Milton’s great epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). There are controversial debates over this issue, and most critics believe that, although Satan acts and speaks heroically, God is the real hero of the poem, not Satan. The paper adopts the analytical approach. The findings of the paper reveal that the central character Satan is a devil that acts for his own self-interests, and cannot do good, even to his followers, the fallen angels. The paper finally shows that, every impulse in Satan towards good has died out. The element of nobility that redeemed his character at the outset from absolute baseness has been killed. Hardly therefore shall we believe that Milton meant us to see in the fallen and ever falling archangel the hero of his poem. That position surely belongs to Adam.
Abstract: This paper examines the question whether Satan is really the hero of John Milton’s great epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). There are controversial debates over this issue, and most critics believe that, although Satan acts and speaks heroically, God is the real hero of the poem, not Satan. The paper adopts the analytical approach. The findings of the...
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Bridge Structures with Four Arches on Bistrica River in Ocrkavlje
Lemja Chabbouh Akšamija,
Lejla Šabić
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3, May 2015
Pages:
29-33
Received:
30 November 2014
Accepted:
9 December 2014
Published:
13 May 2015
Abstract: Bridge in Ocrkavlje is a continuation of research and analytical work and process on documenting bridge structures at the Imperial road in Bosnia or džada, transversal already in ancient time, established on the territory of the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among the sixteen processed, there are three bridge structures that are first time treated in this way in term of protection, and whose documentation did not existed. Researching of the last one of the three bridges, the one in Ocrkavlje, confirmed the hypothesis about the belonging of these structures to the “architecture of purposes", as a version of vernacular architecture, the spontaneous dealing with problems at the level of experiential and intuitive, as in a basic postulate of builders or dunđerski work.
Abstract: Bridge in Ocrkavlje is a continuation of research and analytical work and process on documenting bridge structures at the Imperial road in Bosnia or džada, transversal already in ancient time, established on the territory of the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among the sixteen processed, there are three bridge structures that are first time tr...
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