Paradise Lost

In my Brit Lit 1 class, (which I've been putting off for the last 6 years) we covered many different plays, poems, stories etc. that were closely tied to religion and beliefs from earlier time periods. While all the stories had references to different religions, and some even to the Bible, the story read that had closest Biblical ties, for obvious reasons, was Paradise Lost by Milton. Because I developed a stronger knowledge of the Bible over this semester, I was glad that we read Milton's story last in Brit Lit for I was able to understand it better, and the different Bible references that were found. Some of these Biblical references I discovered in Milton's story include:

-Christs Exaltation in Heaven which is found in Hebrews and Psalms.
-Gods creation of the World, found in Genesis (however, in Genesis satan does not try to destroy the world immediately.
-Satan's Rebellion and War in Heaven, found in Isaiah and Revelation
-Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, found in Genesis, when Eve is tempted by the disguised Satan to eat the fruit from the tree.
-Noahs Arc, which last but not least, is also found in Genesis.

Not only does Milton's Paradise lost follow the Bible very closely in its events, it sometimes quotes the Bible word for word, which I would not have been able to pick up on before this semester. Like one of my blogs from earlier this semester, does everyone steal from everything else? Yes- Milton did steal some of his stories from the Bible... but he made an interesting twist making Satan a type of hero / anti-hero.