Paradise Lost

Lucifer is a proud angel who finds himself and his followers banished from Heaven as a result of a rebellion that he had led. In lust for vengeance, Lucifer ventures out from his prison in Hell, and travels to the Garden of Eden where he develops envy upon God’s most cherished creations, Adam and Eve. He exacts his wrathful revenge upon these creations, resulting in the Fall of Man, and is cursed to crawl on his belly and eat dust all the days of his life.

Paradise Lost is a beautiful expansion of the beginning of Genesis. The epic poem, written in blank verse and divided into twelve books, draws on major themes of ‘us’ and ‘them,’ the nature of conflict, ideas of the master-slave, and conflict between master and slave. The poem also draws perspective and parallels into the events of Heaven and Hell with those of our world, and the events that compose our history from creation to war in Heaven and Earth, to the banishment of the Fallen Angels and then Man from paradise.