By Shelby Mangels

Milton Vs Bible

Milton“Sparkling Eyes” “Monstrous Size”“Mighty Stature”“Hands of Flame”

“Expanded Wings” (Milton 194-

225)

“Reduced to Ashes” (Ezekial 18)

“”Enormous Red Dragon with Seven

Heads and Ten Horns and Seven Crowns on

its Head” (Revalation 3)“You also Have Become

Weak” (Isaiah 10)

Physical AppearanceThe Bible

Milton• Tempted Adam and Eve

to eat the Forbidden Fruit .

“Who first Seduced them to that foul

revolt?” (Milton 33)• Started a war with

God “Raised impious war

in Heaven” (Milton 43)

• Made the Earth Bad “the man who made the

world a wilderness”(Isaiah 16)

• Started a War in Heaven “The war broke out in

heaven” (Revalation 7)• He became Proud and

Violent “Your heart became proud on account of your

beauty” (Ezekial 17)

Why Satan FellThe Bible

Milton “Adamantine chains and

penal fire” (Milton 48) “To bottomless

perdition” (Milton 47) “Fiery Gulf” (Milton 52) “A dungeon horrible on

all sides round” (Milton 61)

“One great furnace”(Milton 62)

“Maggots spread out beneath you” (Isaiah

11)“Cast down to the

earth” (Isaiah 12)“He was hurled to

the earth” (Revalation 8)

“So I threw you to the earth” (Ezekial

17)

Description of HellThe Bible

MiltonStill Optimistic about

War “To wage by force or

guile eternal war” (Milton 121)

“All is not lost; the unconquerable will and

study of revenge, immortal hate”

(Milton 106-107)

Weak and an Outcast“You also have

become weak….like a rejected branch”

(Isaiah 10-19)“Lost their place in heaven” (Revalation

8)“I made a spectacle

of you” (Ezekial 17)

Result of FallThe Bible

MiltonBeelzebub talking to

Satan“Long after known in

Palestine, and named Beelzebub”

(Milton 80)“To be weak is miserable (Milton

157)

“Those who stare at you, they ponder

your fate” (Isaiah 16)“Michael and his

angels fought against the dragon”

(Revalation 7)“All the nations who

knew you are appalled at you”

(Ezekial 19)

Reaction of OthersThe Bible

Milton“Infernal Serpent”

(Milton 34)“Rebel Angels”

(Milton 38)“Fallen Cherub”

(Milton 157)“Archangel” (Milton

243)

“Morning Star” (Isaiah 12)

• “Ancient Serpent” (Isaiah 7)

• “Seal of Perfection” (Ezekial 12)

• “Garden Cherub” (Ezekial 16)

CharacterizedThe Bible