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Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War. Is Satan meant to be sympathetic? Or is Milton trying to condemn the Parliamentarian rebels by comparing them to Satan?
By Benjamin Kozlowski4.4
2020 ratings
Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War. Is Satan meant to be sympathetic? Or is Milton trying to condemn the Parliamentarian rebels by comparing them to Satan?

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