Paradise Lost & Found
Paradise Lost Book 1 & 2, written by the author John Milton, explores the thought of free will, which is a common theme in an epic story, and the idea that we are restricted by God who has every thing planned out for us and the sides of good and evil.
In this clip from “Back to the Future 3,” free will is expressed through Dr. Brown and Marty McFly. Marty reminds Doc that he is a scientist and asks him to make up his actual mind on what he thinks he should do and not what he thinks is already made up for him like he says and believes. By doing this, Doc realizes that Marty is right, he does not have to do what was originally intended and does the right thing instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9s6E4G-rI
Take “A Clockwork Orange” for example as well. The main character Alex makes some extremely bad decisions that we as decent humans would agree the things he did to people were very disturbing. He does not think like this originally and instead has the free will to just go around and acting violent to innocent people just because. It shows the side of Paradise Lost that talks about evil. It brings up the discussion that maybe we are all born evil with free will but that some grow out of it and some continue on with evil in them even though they have free will, that free will is not so evil anymore.
This poem makes you feel a certain way for Satan as opposed to God and also makes you think and contemplate about a lot of things in this world. Satan was written to be looked at as someone people would feel for which is ironic in this case since in every thing ever Satan is usually not associated with good things or people so for this story to make people almost side with him is very powerful and smart writing on behalf of John Milton.
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