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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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Milton's Theology of Unfall and Eden

Milton is trying to represent unfall and Eden. How do you depict Eve's nudity when Adam and Eve would have experienced each other in an unfall and state? This is something you'll see Milton sort of trying to sort his way through in this poem. He believes that he doesn't really believe there's such a thing as a distinct soul distinct from the body, which is probably not a popular opinion amongst his religious contemporaries. And I can see the influence on Cormac and on modern prose and language. Yeah.

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