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Paradise Lost

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Paradise Lost	label	Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost	comment	Paradise Lost is John Milton's sprawling epic poem which explores the Fall of Man and reconciles God's omniscience with Free Will. First published in ten books in 1667, the twelve-book version modern readers will be familiar with came out in 1674.Notably focusing largely on the infernal Serpent, Paradise Lost is a retelling of the third chapter of Genesis in the form of an epic poem with the addition of flashbacks to the war between Satan and the angels, clear references to the Son of God, and visions provided by the Archangel Michael that show Adam what happens in later parts of The Bible. In epic theory (and yes, such a thing exists), Paradise Lost is the final epic, as it has elements of everything from The Odyssey up through The Divine Comedy and The Faerie Queene.Famously illustrated by Gustave DorÃ© two centuries later, providing our page image. It can be read online for free, courtesy of Dartmouth College. It inspired French Renaissance painter Alexandre Cabanel to create The Fallen Angel.
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Paradise Lost / int_127ebb74	type	A Sinister Clue
Paradise Lost / int_127ebb74	comment	A Sinister Clue: Sin specifically came from Satan's left side, providing a cosmic explanation for why the left hand is associated evil.
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Paradise Lost / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Paradise Lost / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: After realizing he can't fight fate and he isn't willing to say he's sorry, Satan gives a memorable speech which includes the line "Evil, be thou my good."
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Paradise Lost / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
Paradise Lost / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: When Satan gathers the angels under his command to make his campaign speech for rebelling against God, Abdiel is the only one present who refutes his arguments and declines to join the rebellion.
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Paradise Lost / int_19bec249	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
Paradise Lost / int_19bec249	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The book is so well-known that the old arguments about Satan as the book's hero are Played for Laughs in an early scene in Animal House.
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Paradise Lost / int_1a2636ee	type	Crucial Cross
Paradise Lost / int_1a2636ee	comment	Crucial Cross: The Archangel Michael comforts Adam in the face of his newfound mortality by prophesying that the Son of God will die on the cross and that through that cross Death will be killed. Adam is awestruck and is able to leave Eden in hope of dying for something greater than Paradise.
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Paradise Lost / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Paradise Lost / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Just so you know that modern orcs are largely J. R. R. Tolkien's contribution, Milton's orcs are giant sea monsters similar to whales that are mentioned to abide by the beach where Noah landed his ark.
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Paradise Lost / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Paradise Lost / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Satan takes off a long, dangerous journey through Chaos, the gap between Heaven and Hell, in his mission to find Eden and corrupt the new creation.
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Paradise Lost / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
Paradise Lost / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Ãœbermensch: Satan loves to reimagine himself as this, as coming from the guy who proclaimed he'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_1e8681db	type	Noble Bird of Prey
Paradise Lost / int_1e8681db	comment	Noble Bird of Prey: The nobility of lady Victory, who sits on the right side of Christ's sun-chariot, is indicated by her eagle-wings that call to mind the Roman insignia.
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Paradise Lost / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Paradise Lost / int_1eed8e76	comment	The Juggernaut: When the Son takes the field, his terrifying and unstoppable charge causes all the rebelling angels to throw themselves into Hell to flee him.
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Paradise Lost / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Paradise Lost / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Satan is an exceptional, extremely charismatic and deeply flawed creature who rebels against his society (Heaven) and grapples with his morality. As with many examples of this trope, in spite of the name, Satan is an Anti-Villain.
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Paradise Lost / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Paradise Lost / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: After the Fall, the Earth itself sighed and expressed woe as the thousands of demons of Hell poured out into the Earth to reign while man and woman feel hatred for the first time. Book 11 shows the full scope of the world's horridness in a vision Adam sees of Earth seven generations in the future, where the world's lush fields are now barren except for the animal corpses and siege weapons strewn around in the never-ending war humanity fights within itself. Rectifying this situation is takes a whole other epic to get to.
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Paradise Lost / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Paradise Lost / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: God does throw Adam and Eve out of Paradise, despite their repentance for disobeying him.
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Paradise Lost / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Paradise Lost / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: John Milton took the first 80 lines of Genesis and adapted them into a 10,565 line epic poem. The brief dialogues of Adam and Eve are now giant monologues while entire narratives about a War in Heaven and the Serpent's plans are invented out of whole cloth.
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Paradise Lost / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
Paradise Lost / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: When Satan returns, a copy of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil appears in Hell, but when the demons try to eat the fruit, they taste ashes. Also, since Satan debased himself by entering and possessing a snake, they all have to turn into snakes on the anniversary of his return to hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
Paradise Lost / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: A simile in Book III compares the Devil circling around Night to find a way into the universe to a vulture searching Chinese plains to find a corpse or a newborn to consume.
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Paradise Lost / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Paradise Lost / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: The physical location of Hell is actually pretty easy to get out of, and Satan slips out to mess around with Earth. Unfortunately for the Devil, the mental state of Hell is not so easy to get out of.
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Paradise Lost / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Paradise Lost / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The story begins with the immediate aftermath of the War in Heaven, which is retold in the middle of the story, as Satan plans what to do in his exile. This thematic device calls to mind the classical epics of Homer and Virgil to establish the Devil as an Odysseus or Aeneas-like hero before deconstructing that pagan notion of heroism.
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Paradise Lost / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Paradise Lost / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: The devils are all marred somehow by the Fall. Belial actually uses the phrase to refer to God's anger, a Shout-Out to Horace.
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Paradise Lost / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Paradise Lost / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When he realizes that Eve has Fallen from grace, Adam wonders aloud whether the whole human race is now doomed or whether God will create a second wife for Adam to replace his first, evil wife. The whole idea of God replacing an evil first wife of Adam comes from the medieval folk legend about Lilith, a biblical demon that folklore says is the damned soul of Adam's original partner.
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Paradise Lost / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
Paradise Lost / int_2727c89a	comment	Pride Before a Fall: We meet The Legions of Hell just after they fall from Heaven; Raphael tells us about the Devil's disastrous War in Heaven in Book VI.
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Paradise Lost / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Paradise Lost / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Although there is wordplay throughout, Satan and Belial have the most impressive example of this when they make a long series of puns about their new cannons, pretending they are talking about negotiation but using terms that also have artillery-related meanings. Perhaps most cringe-worthy is the use of "understand" both in its normal meaning and as if it meant "to stand under..." the ammunition. The bad taste is almost certainly deliberate.
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Paradise Lost / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Paradise Lost / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Only a few days after leading a war into Heaven, Satan has to retreat from Eden when five angels threaten him. As he creeps away, they remind him of how hideous and weak he's become, realities he's too arrogant to grant. Satan arms himself with a chariot in an imitation of the sun-chariot of the Son of God. He boasts from atop the chariot that he created himself and that he's invincible, only for Michael to come up to him and cut off the right side of his body. This introduction to pain leaves the Devil whimpering in agony as his foot soldiers carry his body away from the battle. The Devil sneaks back into Hell in an attempt to make the announcement of Man's fall as dramatic as possible. He takes his giant golden throne and yells to all his demons of the mighty victory won by his efforts alone, only for any praise he might win to be silenced when every demon in Hell is turned into bestial serpents as a consequence of Satan's attacks on humanity.
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Paradise Lost / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Paradise Lost / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: The blow Abdiel land to begin the battle in Heaven is said to be faster than sight, meaning that Abdiel moved his sword more quickly than the light the moved from his sword to the eyes of those around him. It's subtler than most examples, but this certainly paints the angels at war as exceeding the speed of light.
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Paradise Lost / int_2bc09017	type	Rebellious Rebel
Paradise Lost / int_2bc09017	comment	Rebellious Rebel: Abdiel joins the rebelling angels to listen to Satan's speech, but he rejects it.
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Paradise Lost / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Paradise Lost / int_302730a	comment	Fusion Dance: Yes, you read that right. Angels are said to make love by spiritually fusing together. "Total they mix, Union of Pure with Pure..."
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Paradise Lost / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
Paradise Lost / int_30d4f2a	comment	Narcissist: The first thing Eve does after being created is look in awe at her own beautiful reflection. God calls her to look away from herself and towards Adam, but Satan uses the first woman's vanity to eternal consequence.
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Paradise Lost / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Paradise Lost / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: The demon Belial comes across as rhetorically-minded politician in the speeches in Book 2. He may seem noble, but every word of his is a lie to allow him to fulfill his vices.
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Paradise Lost / int_30fde463	type	Word Salad Philosophy
Paradise Lost / int_30fde463	comment	Word Salad Philosophy: After Satan leaves to invade Eden, a few of the demons bide time for his return by prattling on about free will and fate, an exercise the narrator lets us know is entirely useless. The demons don't truly philosophize, they only manage to create a false hope to distract from their eternal anguish by entering a maze of poor reasoning.
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Paradise Lost / int_324e2fcf	type	Power Levels
Paradise Lost / int_324e2fcf	comment	Power Levels: Since every creature is given their power by God, He can compare and expose their power levels by weighing them on the scales of the Libra constellation. This trick comes in handy when Satan and Gabriel are about to tear apart Eden in battle, since the scales show Satan that his power could never overcome the heavenly Gabriel's.
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Paradise Lost / int_32ae7812	type	Inbred and Evil
Paradise Lost / int_32ae7812	comment	Inbred and Evil: Death is the result of Satan's incestuous affair with his daughter Sin. Death would later violate his mother/sister, causing her to give birth to hell hounds who constantly gnaw at her midsection.
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Paradise Lost / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Paradise Lost / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Satan's Meaningful Name is derived from the Semitic "Shai'tan" meaning "adversary," and he builds himself up as the greatest opponent to God. In reality, he's nothing compared to Heaven's might.
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Paradise Lost / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
Paradise Lost / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: God's authority derives from his overwhelming power, and rebellion against him is taken as self-evidently wrong.
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Paradise Lost / int_39a41690	type	Adaptational Sympathy
Paradise Lost / int_39a41690	comment	Adaptational Sympathy: While in the Bible Satan hardly receives any characterization at all, and what he does receive paints him as a heartless and petty manipulator, here he is shown as a complex and tragic figure who has lost everything. There are times in the story where he is struck by the deep beauty of Eden and the universe, and desires desperately to be a part of it, and ponders whether he could repent and ask for forgiveness. But his pride won't let him. All the beauty of God's creation does is fill him with bitterness that he can't have it. And if he can't have it, no one can.
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Paradise Lost / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Paradise Lost / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Satan will fall, and humanity will follow him. In Book Three, God and Jesus lay out the entire sequence of events, going far beyond the specific events of the poem: Jesus (or "The Son"), realizing that humanity will fall, offers to sacrifice himself to save them.
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Paradise Lost / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
Paradise Lost / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: "So should I purchase dear short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher, therefore as far from granting he as I from begging peace." More directly: "Farewell, remorse! All good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good."
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Paradise Lost / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Paradise Lost / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: God makes things interesting by only fielding exactly as many angels as Satan has demons to keep the battle at a stalemate until the Son takes the field and wipes the floor with the entire rebel army on his own. The Son is so terrifying that the rebelling angels throw themselves to Hell to escape him.
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Paradise Lost / int_3e8d3ea5	type	Escaped from Hell
Paradise Lost / int_3e8d3ea5	comment	Escaped from Hell: Satan himself had to escape from Hell before he could truly rule it, doing so by making a bargain with Sin and Death, who had been placed there to guard the exit. He tries to brag about it later, but Gabriel sees through his act and realizes that Satan will always be tortured in his mind no matter what realm he's in.
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Paradise Lost / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Paradise Lost / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Genesis portrays the Serpent as being chiefly responsible for his action, and in the last book of the standard Christian canon it is implied that the Serpent was Satan all along. In Milton's mind, the serpent was just a mindless animal whose body Satan possessed to carry out his plans. The serpent is just a hapless victim of the Devil's scheming, more innocent than even Adam and Eve.
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Paradise Lost / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Paradise Lost / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Hell wants nothing to do with the fallen angels and tries to move away as soon as they start coming near "her" but Fate apparently built Hell too steadily for "her" to escape.
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Paradise Lost / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
Paradise Lost / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Sort of — the whole thing opens on The Legions of Hell immediately after being tossed down there, but Satan does come back as far as Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Paradise Lost / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: As in the Bible, Adam and Eve disobey God and become tainted by sin. They are forced out of the Garden of Eden to live in the new flawed world they brought into being; however they repent and are comforted by God and His angels, with Michael showing Adam the future showing him humanity will survive (though also simultanesouly warning him of their future mistakes). The closing lines invoke this: "The world was before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, through Eden took their solitarie way."
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Paradise Lost / int_41acc7e	type	A Hell of a Time
Paradise Lost / int_41acc7e	comment	A Hell of a Time: Mammon suggests making Hell look like Heaven by applying "Gemms and Gold" to the realm as the demons grow accustomed to their tortures. The trope is subverted when Beelzebub points out that God didn't put the demons in the Inferno to create a happy empire, but to imprison them in a dungeon still under the rule of his iron scepter. Whatever they design, Hell will always be Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_45f0bb2d	type	Hope Is Scary
Paradise Lost / int_45f0bb2d	comment	Hope Is Scary: Satan decision to forgo any beauty and goodness leads him to decide hope to regain those things is too terrifying to tolerate.
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Paradise Lost / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
Paradise Lost / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: The serpent is just another animal before the Fall, but after Satan possesses it to tempt Eve, God curses the serpent so that it loses its pre-Fall dexterity and gains a special animosity with the whole human race. Soon after that, all the demons in Hell are reduced to snakes as they storm the Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Paradise Lost / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Moloch, one of the high-ranking demons, proposes launching a second assault on Heaven since there may be some chance God will wipe them out of existence. The demon prefers not to be than to continue to despair in Hell, although he also suspects their essence may be unending.
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Paradise Lost / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
Paradise Lost / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: The Son of God spends the first five books talking about His love for His Father, volunteering to suffer a Heroic Sacrifice, and all around being incredibly kind until the Father charges Him to end the War in Heaven. The Son then turns into an indescribable terror "Gloomie as Night" whose glare strikes plagues against all the Devil's army with the strength of ten thousand thunderbolts. With this one conviction, He did more damage to the entire demonic army than every angel could do together with two full days of combat. The Devil's soldiers are so horrified that they throw themselves into Hell rather than wait for Christ to be done with them.
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Paradise Lost / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Paradise Lost / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Part of justifying the ways of God to Man is giving a clear a picture of God's (and Man's) enemy, which means explaining the Arch-Enemy's motive in full.
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Paradise Lost / int_4d657001	type	Blow That Horn
Paradise Lost / int_4d657001	comment	Blow That Horn: Michael wields the ethereal trumpet to let the Heavenly Host know when battle has begun, striking dread into all who hear it.
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Paradise Lost / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
Paradise Lost / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: The angels patrolling Eden cannot recognize Satan as the beautiful angel who rebelled, owing to the corrosive effects of sin.
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Paradise Lost / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Paradise Lost / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Satan leads a revolt against God and the Son in the name of equality, and, of course, puts himself on a pedestal and appoints himself king after the revolution.
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Paradise Lost / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Paradise Lost / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: Belial uses his silver-tongue to counsel the demons into giving up on battling against Heaven, not in order to return to Paradise, but to lazily remain in the fires of Hell under the false pretense that the torture will lessen with inactivity.
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Paradise Lost / int_52b332fb	type	Archangel Raphael
Paradise Lost / int_52b332fb	comment	Archangel Raphael: Mr. Exposition here spends two whole books (of twelve) telling Adam how Satan fell and fought the War in Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
Paradise Lost / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Satan opens with a lot of stirring rhetoric, but by the later books he's mostly just trying to piss off God in any way he can, no matter whom he has to hurt to do so. Interestingly, this may have been intentional, as part of the story's philosophy is that evil degrades the sinner—as he sins Satan is becoming less of a person, and thus less developed. Also note his size throughout the books: he starts out as indescribably large, larger than Titans or Leviathan (both have no definite size), but he shrinks down bit by bit, until he takes the form of small creatures on Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_537b4ea	type	Snake People
Paradise Lost / int_537b4ea	comment	Snake People: Satan's daughter/lover Sin has the face of a woman, but below that, she has a serpentine body that makes her foul nature clear.
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Paradise Lost / int_53c37297	type	Flash Step
Paradise Lost / int_53c37297	comment	Flash Step: Abdiel's first strike is so fast that no one could see his sword be lifted up before Satan's helmet had already been struck with swiftness greater than thought.
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Paradise Lost / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Paradise Lost / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Three full books of it, documenting the War in Heaven and the creation of Earth, all of which is being told to Adam and Eve by the angel Raphael.
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Paradise Lost / int_54fb42f0	type	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
Paradise Lost / int_54fb42f0	comment	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Perhaps the Ur-Example; Satan boldly leaps out of the gate of Hell to fly through Chaos as he begins his odyssey to destroy Eden. The whole thing is quite dramatic until the Devil realizes he's fluttering his wings in a void without any air to fly through, causing him to drop "plumb down" thousands of fathoms through Chaos.
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Paradise Lost / int_5669577c	type	Yin-Yang Bomb
Paradise Lost / int_5669577c	comment	Yin-Yang Bomb: The Lord's throne is secured upon a cave where light and darkness turn around each other infinitely, creating in Heaven something like day and night or maybe morning and twilight.
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Paradise Lost / int_56b8fabd	type	To Create a Playground for Evil
Paradise Lost / int_56b8fabd	comment	To Create a Playground for Evil: Satan knows he can't beat the Almighty, so he instead plans to just ruin the lives of men and make their lives miserable and painful enough that they can be easily manipulated and tortured by his demons.
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Paradise Lost / int_57239e21	type	Archangel Michael
Paradise Lost / int_57239e21	comment	Archangel Michael: Michael is a total badass and the Good Counterpart to the Serpent. Michael cuts off the Devil's entire right side to introduce him to pain and helps Adam adjust to pain by showing him that salvation will be offered in the future.
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Paradise Lost / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Paradise Lost / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Not in the poem itself, but in the paintings of John Martin inspired by it, the Pandemonium (Palace of Demons) looks suspiciously Roman and Satan himself is depicted as a man (not as the traditional horned monster) in a Roman Emperor's ceremonial uniform◊. Perhaps influenced by Paradise Regain'd, where Rome seems to be Satan's favorite Earth culture, the one which he spends more time tempting Jesus with.
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Paradise Lost / int_5cc04812	type	Fainting Seer
Paradise Lost / int_5cc04812	comment	Fainting Seer: Of the many visions Adam receives in Books 11 and 12, the sight of a quarantine where men die of more diseases than he can count causes him to break into tears and beg never to have been born at all.
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Paradise Lost / int_5dff28cf	type	Snakes Are Sexy
Paradise Lost / int_5dff28cf	comment	Snakes Are Sexy: Satan and Eve's interaction comes across as quite sexually-charged, with Satan taking a while to drink in Eve's beauty, beguiling her with his own gorgeous appearance (at which point the metaphor of snakes as phallic symbols undeniably comes into play), then proceeding to flatter and pervert her. Blake's illustrations even show the snake wrapped around Eve while feeding her the Fruit of Knowledge with its mouth.
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Paradise Lost / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
Paradise Lost / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: The main point of Satan's story is to show that damnation is the will of the sinner, not God, who is always ready to forgive. Satan and his angels pointedly cast themselves into Hell after losing the War in Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_604f9b0f	type	Brains Evil, Brawn Good
Paradise Lost / int_604f9b0f	comment	Brains Evil, Brawn Good: The rebellious angels use their cunning and skill to invent guns, and turn back the loyal angels for a moment. The loyal angels respond with brute force: ripping up mountains and throwing them at the rebels. Jesus ends the fight the next day just by charging at the rebels with his overwhelming power.
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Paradise Lost / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Paradise Lost / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: The Devil gave birth to the personification of Sin from his head and took so much joy in her resemblance to him that shortly after their first meeting, they conceived a child together, Death. Death rapes his own mother and she gives birth to hounds who attack her.
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Paradise Lost / int_609eb275	type	Satan Is Good
Paradise Lost / int_609eb275	comment	Satan Is Good: Invoked, Deconstructed, and finally Subverted; Satan presents himself as an epic hero trying to overthrow an undeserved tyranny. This is challenged as the books move on and it becomes more blatant Satan is corrupting humanity for no other reason than envy while undermining his democratic rhetoric by declaring himself emperor of Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_61b9028c	type	Sinister Scythe
Paradise Lost / int_61b9028c	comment	Sinister Scythe: Cain is described as using a scythe to reap his fields shortly before he murders Abel, both to indicate his role as a farmer and as an indication that Cain is about to cause the first death in history.
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Paradise Lost / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Paradise Lost / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Book Twelve concludes with Michael describing Christ to Adam and Adam responding that he will faithfully await the coming of the Savior. This sets up Paradise Regain'd, where Jesus publicly takes on the role of Christ despite the efforts of the Devil.
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Paradise Lost / int_659ae11b	type	Revenge Through Corruption
Paradise Lost / int_659ae11b	comment	Revenge Through Corruption: Satan mentions rumors about God planning to create man in order to rouse the fallen angels, a rumor Beelzebub spins into a battle plan to do as much damage to God as possible by turning His beloved creation to evil and take away His joy. Of course, it's impossible to make an immutable God less of anything or to thwart an omnipotent one, so the effort is pointless while also being doomed to fail.
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Paradise Lost / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Paradise Lost / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The poem is filled with references to light, illumination, and color — appealing to the blind John Milton for bittersweet reasons. Satan talks about democracy and egalitarianism, arguments that would strike close to Milton's heart due to his political beliefs.
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Paradise Lost / int_66dc50e1	type	Biblical Bad Guy
Paradise Lost / int_66dc50e1	comment	Biblical Bad Guy: As an epic rendition of Genesis Chapter Three, Paradise Lost naturally features the Devil corrupting humanity for the first time.
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Paradise Lost / int_67542e29	type	This Is Your Brain on Evil
Paradise Lost / int_67542e29	comment	This Is Your Brain on Evil: The Forbidden Fruit makes you feel happy, invincible, and horny, and it also leaves you with a "My God, What Have I Done?" hangover the next morning.
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Paradise Lost / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Paradise Lost / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦: Eve's motive for giving the apple to Adam is murder — so he will not be happy with another woman God could make.
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Paradise Lost / int_67a12cd4	type	Divinely Appearing Demons
Paradise Lost / int_67a12cd4	comment	Divinely Appearing Demons: The Devil has increasingly grown hideous and small upon falling, but in order to sneak into Paradise, he takes an angelic appearance. It fools the all-seeing Uriel. His disguise only falters when his chaotic and tortured emotions cause his disguise the fluctuate at the edge of Uriel's vision.
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Paradise Lost / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Paradise Lost / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The wrath of God has always been a popular topic, but Milton uniquely describes God, specifically God the Son, as a monster of "terrour" and "night" as He battles the demons to show how scary an all-powerful enforcer of justice would be to those as unjust as the demons of Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
Paradise Lost / int_69a54df1	comment	Chest Burster: In an appropriation of the Athena myth, Lady Sin burst out of Satan's skull, horrifying all the host of Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_6a492371	type	Truly Single Parent
Paradise Lost / int_6a492371	comment	Truly Single Parent: Sin bursts out of Lucifer's head in a parallel to Athena's birth from Zeus.
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Paradise Lost / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
Paradise Lost / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: Among all the war and greed of the world seven generations after Adam, the only man to remain just is Enoch, who made it his mission to preach righteousness and pass on justice to his descendants. He prefigures Christ, The Only One able to save man from their sin come Paradise Regain'd.
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Paradise Lost / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Paradise Lost / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Averted Trope; after being badly beaten in the first day of the War in Heaven, the demons use unstable elements to create cannons and gunpowder to even the odds for day two of the war. With this in mind, the creation of guns precedes the creation of the Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Paradise Lost / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A few, even disregarding the fact that "Adam" means "mankind" or "a human" in Hebrew. "Abdiel" is particularly apt—he's the only angel loyal to God among Satan's original troops, and his name means "Servant of God."note It's cognate with Arabic names like "Abd-al-aziz", which mean "the Servant of ..." It's actually a human name in the Bible, but apparently it fit so well that Milton chose to use it for the angel.
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Paradise Lost / int_6bf29c6e	type	Good Wings, Evil Wings
Paradise Lost / int_6bf29c6e	comment	Good Wings, Evil Wings: In the first twenty lines, God is described as "with mighty wings outspread dove-like" as an immediate sign of his innocence. From there, comparison of angelic and divine wings to eagles and pure white birds are common to indicate regality and goodness. In contrast, the demons have Red and Black and Evil All Over wings that make them look like swarming bees.
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Paradise Lost / int_6c1864a9	type	I Fell for Hours
Paradise Lost / int_6c1864a9	comment	I Fell for Hours: It takes nine days for the rebellious angels to fall from Heaven into Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_6cb5fcec	type	Distracted by My Own Sexy
Paradise Lost / int_6cb5fcec	comment	Distracted by My Own Sexy: Eve sees her reflection and is stunned by its beauty, although she doesn't realize it's her at first. She's so taken that she neglects to go meet her husband, Adam, until God calls to her. Satan is turned on by his near-identical daughter, named Sin.
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Paradise Lost / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Paradise Lost / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: After he first enters Eden, Satan has one and starts questioning his actions. It passes pretty quickly.
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Paradise Lost / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
Paradise Lost / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Eve suggests that she and Adam can get more gardening done if they work separately. This is just after they have been warned that Satan is somewhere in the garden.
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Paradise Lost / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
Paradise Lost / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: Raphael and Michael both talk to Adam in the Garden of Eden, even though both are first mentioned long after his death in the biblical canon.
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Paradise Lost / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Paradise Lost / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: God knows exactly how all of Satan's schemes will fall apart before he even thinks of them and talks at length about it.
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Paradise Lost / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Paradise Lost / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: God is a wise and kind ruler who explains that he has given his creations free will, making them "fit to stand but free to fall" and that he forgives those who sincerely regret their betrayals.
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Paradise Lost / int_7836c43	type	Casting a Shadow
Paradise Lost / int_7836c43	comment	Casting a Shadow: The mystical fires of Hell are so far from God that they do not cast light, but instead project pure "darkness visible."
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Paradise Lost / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Paradise Lost / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: The Devil and his army of semi-gods are so horrified by the gaze of Jesus that they throw themselves into Hell rather than wait for the Son of God to annihilate.
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Paradise Lost / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Paradise Lost / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: With God is good, even if you have trouble accepting that. With Satan is evil, even if he seems appealing.
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Paradise Lost / int_7ae00dcc	type	Driven by Envy
Paradise Lost / int_7ae00dcc	comment	Driven by Envy: Satan is first driven to rebel against Heaven when the Father tells the Angels to bow before the Son, a glory far greater than the role of Arch-Angel. Being cast out of Heaven does little to mitigate this, as the Devil travels across the incomprehensible realm of Chaos just so he can keep Adam and Eve from being happier than him.
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Paradise Lost / int_7c4fdf65	type	Red Is Violent
Paradise Lost / int_7c4fdf65	comment	Red Is Violent: The angelic guard lead by Gabriel transitions from dialoging with the Devil to preparing to battle him by exploding into a fiery red form exposing the fullness of divine wrath.
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Paradise Lost / int_7cc8c8c4	type	Villain World
Paradise Lost / int_7cc8c8c4	comment	Villain World: The Devil, Sin, Death, and all the demons claim Eden as part of their Infernal Empire after Adam and Eve reject God's rule, thus allowing them to spend the next six thousand years or so bring Hell to Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
Paradise Lost / int_7d3da681	comment	The Legions of Hell: Satan recruits his rebelling angels with a New Era Speech and forms them into an army to attack Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Paradise Lost / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Book 4, when two Cherubs fail to recognize Satan and he insults them for it. One angel, Zephon, rebukes that Satan was no longer the brilliant, beautiful archangel he once was and thus unrecognizable. At that moment, Satan realizes what he'd lost. Before the battle begins in Book 6, the loyal Abdiel calls Satan an idiot out of touch with faith and reality who was dumb enough to think he could take God's throne without opposition and then be a better ruler than the Almighty.
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Paradise Lost / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
Paradise Lost / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: Light is frequently used as imagery for Heavenly creatures, including unfallen angels and the pre-fallen demons. God is unseeable in the poem because He is the logical conclusion of this trope, radiating so much light that even angels can't see past it to whatever divine form is within.
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Paradise Lost / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Paradise Lost / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Adam and Eve are called out for eating the fruit of knowledge. This is the story of the fall of mankind, after all.
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Paradise Lost / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Paradise Lost / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: Adam is excited to hear that someday a Messiah will defeat evil and speculates about how this hero will do battle to Satan and his followers. Michael cuts him off and tells him no such battle is to take place, as the Messiah will not destroy the Devil in battle, but rather destroy his works by dying so humanity will not.
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Paradise Lost / int_876d1cbb	type	Hell Invades Heaven
Paradise Lost / int_876d1cbb	comment	Hell Invades Heaven: It's the trope codifier/forerunner by depicting Satan's rebellion against God.
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Paradise Lost / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Paradise Lost / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Chaos and Old Night are beings that represent the world before creation, where fire and earth change into water and air before switching places and on and on in endless anarchy.
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Paradise Lost / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Paradise Lost / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: The reader is frequently reminded that the names of all the fallen angels have been erased from heaven, and that what they are called is what humans have named them to be, not their 'real names'.
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Paradise Lost / int_880ce607	type	Vanity Is Feminine
Paradise Lost / int_880ce607	comment	Vanity Is Feminine: It is Eve, not Adam, who is captivated by how she looks.
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Paradise Lost / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
Paradise Lost / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: The Son of God uses all of his eyes to glare lightning and fire at the demonic soldiers with such intensity that all their strength and life is lost to them.
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Paradise Lost / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Paradise Lost / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Much of the poem is from Satan's point of view and he his often compared by the narrator to Aeneas, Ulysses, and other Epic Heroes.
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Paradise Lost / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Paradise Lost / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: How angels "express" love.
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Paradise Lost / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Paradise Lost / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Like many other epics, Paradise Lost doesn't just begin In Medias Res, it uses non-linear time extensively. The poem begins after Satan's army has been cast into the newly created hell, nearly halfway through the story, chronologically speaking. Roughly the middle third of the poem is occupied with various flashbacks to before this point, narrated by the angel Raphael, who describes the creation of the universe, the coronation of the Son, the war in heaven and Satan's defeat, as well as the creation of the Earth. The rest of the poem follows chronologically from there, except for a few flash-forwards.
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Paradise Lost / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Paradise Lost / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: For the books dealing with the War in Heaven, Satan and the rebellious angels are completely unable to injure the immortal, untainted angels or their Omnipotent Lord. God even laughs at the vain threat Satan presents and no one imagines he could touch Adam and Eve. The only injuries they have to worry about are self-inflicted ones.
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Paradise Lost / int_8f732211	type	External Retcon
Paradise Lost / int_8f732211	comment	External Retcon: For The Bible and for various myths from other cultures.
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Paradise Lost / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Paradise Lost / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Satan is deeply moved by the beauty of Earth when he sees it for the first time and contemplates how happy he might have been if he hadn't rebelled. And when Satan falls in Love at First Sight with Eve, leaving him so enchanted that, for a moment, he becomes "stupidly good". But then he realises he can never have her and carries on with his original plan out of spite.
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Paradise Lost / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Paradise Lost / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: When Satan is despairing, his angelic disguise "slips" just enough for Uriel to recognize the failure and call for back-up.
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Paradise Lost / int_984d58c7	type	City of the Damned
Paradise Lost / int_984d58c7	comment	City of the Damned: Pandemonium was a city made of gold that was commissioned by Mammon and designed by Mulciber (who was an architect in Heaven before the rebellion) to act as Hell's capital.
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Paradise Lost / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Paradise Lost / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Justified Trope. God's plans for the universe are extremely long-term and mind-boggling circuitous but unlike a mortal planner, he already knows how all of it is going to work out.
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Paradise Lost / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Paradise Lost / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: The Son, aka Jesus, is of course the redemption of all mankind.
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Paradise Lost / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Paradise Lost / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: From His throne above the universe, God can look down and see all things with perfect clarity. Within seconds, the Thunderer notices the Son at his right hand, each angel circling like constellations in Heaven, the first Humans gardening on Earth, and Satan ascending from Hell to the Primordial Chaos.
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Paradise Lost / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Paradise Lost / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Eve gets bored and steps out when Adam starts doing this during Raphael's visit.
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Paradise Lost / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Paradise Lost / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: God, the Son and the Holy Spirit face the Anti-Trinity of Satan, Sin and Death. Satan is Sin's father. Sin is Death's mother. Satan is Death's father. Death is the father of Sin's hounds. It is appropriate to feel Squicky once you realize what it all means. Of course, this is very much intentional, portraying a perverted Trinity.
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Paradise Lost / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Paradise Lost / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: As described above, primordial chaos is an extremely strange place where the laws of physics do not apply. But Hell qualifies as well, since it has three gates and somehow also stretches out at the edges into an infinite landscape of snow.
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Paradise Lost / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Paradise Lost / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: All the angels have Hebrew names ending in "-el" like Abdiel, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, etc. (Hebrew Names), except for Satan, who is referred to with the Latin name "Lucifer" once or twice when angels are talking about how he was before the fall.
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Paradise Lost / int_a11669c5	type	Braids, Beads and Buckskins
Paradise Lost / int_a11669c5	comment	Braids, Beads and Buckskins: This 1667 English epic compares the fallen Adam and Eve's mad attempts to cover their newly-found nudity to how "Columbus / found th' American so girt / With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde."
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Paradise Lost / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
Paradise Lost / int_a122bf2f	comment	Blind Seer: At the beginning of Book III, the narrator references his own blindness, like that of poets like Homer and prophets like Tiresias, to pray that God will give him inner light to replace his outer light.
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Paradise Lost / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Paradise Lost / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Satan refers to God as "the Thunderer" for good reason. When the fallen angels tried to imitate God's power with cannons, the Son knocked them out of Heaven with a glance that had the force of ten thousand thunderbolts.
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Paradise Lost / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Paradise Lost / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Fallen Angels lose their invulnerability, but they still can heal all their injuries, making the war in Heaven pretty brutal. Becomes an instance of And I Must Scream when the rebellious angels are cast into the lake of fire, to be incinerated, reformed, and incinerated again for all eternity.
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Paradise Lost / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Paradise Lost / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: The Son of God gets far less lines than Adam, Eve, the Father, Michael, and especially Satan, mainly existing to give someone for the Father to talk to and to kick the demons out of Heaven. Come the sequel, Paradise Regain'd, the Son now goes by Jesus and is the main protagonist.
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Paradise Lost / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Paradise Lost / int_a675997a	comment	Scaled Up: A seminal example — Satan turns into a large snake when tempting Eve with the Forbidden Fruit. He also (involuntarily and temporarily) turns into a snake in Hell when cursed by God, as do The Legions of Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_a7325f9e	type	The Many Deaths of You
Paradise Lost / int_a7325f9e	comment	The Many Deaths of You: Upon seeing a vision of Cain killing Abel with a rock, Adam asks if that is how every man will die. Michael helpfully answers by listing off deaths like violence, fire, flood, famine, and intoxication before deciding it would be simpler to show Adam a vision of death. Adam then bears witness to every disease that could possibly kill a person, knowing that these ghastly spasms and racking tortures all exist because of his Fall.
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Paradise Lost / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Paradise Lost / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: None of the fallen angels (besides maybe Satan) are given actual names and are only referred to by the names humanity will give them as they worship them over the centuries. Although, Gabriel refers to a few of the demons by their human-given names before any of their worshippers even born, so who knows.
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Paradise Lost / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
Paradise Lost / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: Satan, who knows and laments the fact that any victory he achieves is purely out of spite and does not improve his situation.
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Paradise Lost / int_a8784482	type	Primordial Chaos
Paradise Lost / int_a8784482	comment	Primordial Chaos: The vast, violent and unpredictable gap between Heaven and Hell, which Satan braves through in order to invade Paradise.
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Paradise Lost / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Paradise Lost / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	And when Satan falls in Love at First Sight with Eve, leaving him so enchanted that, for a moment, he becomes "stupidly good". But then he realises he can never have her and carries on with his original plan out of spite.
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Paradise Lost / int_a9646938	type	Mammon
Paradise Lost / int_a9646938	comment	Mammon: Mammon is one of the many fallen angels, one who spent more time staring down at the golden roads of Heaven than at the glory of God above. He contributes to the demonic counsel in Book II by advising the devils remain in Hell and gild it with all matters of gems and metal so they can at least pretend to not be tortured.
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Paradise Lost / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Paradise Lost / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Abdiel is the only angel who listened to Satan's speech to remain in Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Paradise Lost / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Beezelbub delivers a rousing speech in the first book to the rest of the fallen angels on what they should do.
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Paradise Lost / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
Paradise Lost / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: When the Father asks who will take the penalty of death so Man can live, there is a deafening silence in Heaven as no angel takes the call. The narration laments that in this moment, it seems that Satan has become victorious and that Man will be forever enslave to Sin and Death... only for the Son to break the silence and to selflessly put forward his own life for the sake of Man's.
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Paradise Lost / int_abf4c466	type	The Paragon Always Rebels
Paradise Lost / int_abf4c466	comment	The Paragon Always Rebels: Satan was God's greatest angel, but he rebels against God's authority to "reign in hell."
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Paradise Lost / int_ac3ccb12	type	The Unapologetic
Paradise Lost / int_ac3ccb12	comment	The Unapologetic: Satan refuses to repent. He'd rather take over Hell.
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Paradise Lost / int_ad7533dd	type	Creepy Catholicism
Paradise Lost / int_ad7533dd	comment	Creepy Catholicism: An English Protestant through and through, Milton goes out of his way to make Hell as Catholic as he can by describing their demonic meeting as "synods" three different times and comparing Sin and Death's invasion into the Earth as something quite "pontifical," connecting all human suffering to The Pope.
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Paradise Lost / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Paradise Lost / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: "To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow./Gabriel? thou hadst in Heaven the esteem of wise,/And such I held thee; but this question asked/Puts me in doubt (Book IV, 883-886)."
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Paradise Lost / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
Paradise Lost / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: Moloch doesn't care if the entirety of the demonic legion gets erased from history so long as he gets to engage in glorious combat against the angels of God.
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Paradise Lost / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Paradise Lost / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: At the beginning of Book IV, when Satan arrives on Earth, he is completely alone (save for God's presence, of course) for the first and only time, left to his own thoughts. This gives him the opportunity to reflect on the mistakes that brought him this far, and he actually considers repenting before deciding it would ultimately be pointless.
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Paradise Lost / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
Paradise Lost / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: God's divinity is immediately established in Book III when he sits "High Thron'd above all highth." He looms over all things below Him under His authority before explaining how all things that will come to happen in the poem is known to Him by omniscience.
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Paradise Lost / int_b1118d5e	type	Bizarre Seasons
Paradise Lost / int_b1118d5e	comment	Bizarre Seasons: Hell only has weather in the extremes, revolving between hailing whirlwinds of torturous ice and raging fires in such a hurry that no demon can become accustomed to their torture.
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Paradise Lost / int_b246d59	type	Fame Through Infamy
Paradise Lost / int_b246d59	comment	Fame Through Infamy: Michael shows Adam a vision of a descendant of his who will form an empire in the hopes of making his name famous, regardless of whether he be famous for good or evil. Michael goes out of his way to avoid saying his name, but context makes it clear that the descendent is Nimrod, the character who tried to build the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis.
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Paradise Lost / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Paradise Lost / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: An early example occurs in Milton's description of Chaos' domain. It isn't easy for even a former archangel like Satan to navigate before he builds a bridge between Hell and Earth.
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Paradise Lost / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Paradise Lost / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Satan has several low points where he reflects on how stacked the divine deck is against him, but his hubris is so great that he just can't bring himself to accept that he was wrong and repent, and has no choice to but to continue on doing evil and being punished for it. The best he can do is convince himself that it was his own idea.
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Paradise Lost / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Paradise Lost / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The narration frequently compares epic protagonists like Achilles to the Devil, implying that ideas of violent heroism are satanic in nature. Michael makes this all the more explicit when he describes the fallen men who live before the Flood, who similarly tell stories of strong men as if they were somehow more virtuous than the weak. Also, the gods worshiped by the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Canaanites are grouped among Satan's followers.
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Paradise Lost / int_b6060b7	type	Run or Die
Paradise Lost / int_b6060b7	comment	Run or Die: Satan vainly hopes to get in a fight with Gabriel and his angelic guard, but upon seeing the constellation of the scales weigh the contest in Gabriel's favor, the Devil murmured to himself to soothe his injured pride and fled Eden without offering resistance.
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Paradise Lost / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Paradise Lost / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Satan can't hurt God, so he'll go after His beloved Adam and Eve instead.
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Paradise Lost / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Paradise Lost / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: The demon Moloch fell because of his lust for power and war. He advises against taking revenge against God by guile and instead argues the demons should again take arms to battle the Omnipotent, even if it leads to the Cessation of Existence or worse.
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Paradise Lost / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Paradise Lost / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Satan has whole speeches railing against God.
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Paradise Lost / int_b8878bff	type	Throne Made of X
Paradise Lost / int_b8878bff	comment	Throne Made of X: After ranting for all of Book I about how God arrogantly sat on His throne above all creation, Satan begins Book II by creating and taking his own throne in Hell, which is made from more pearls and gold than India, the trade kingdom of Ormus, or any land in "the gorgeous east" could ever muster.
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Paradise Lost / int_bd3b726e	type	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
Paradise Lost / int_bd3b726e	comment	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Satan famously proclaims, "Evil be thou my good."
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Paradise Lost / int_c0e07e0	type	Archangel Gabriel
Paradise Lost / int_c0e07e0	comment	Archangel Gabriel: Gabriel is a total badass, and the trumpeter and chief guard of all the angels. His guards catch Satan sneaking into Eden and cut through his rhetoric to send him running with his tail between his legs.
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Paradise Lost / int_c1fffb62	type	Industrialized Evil
Paradise Lost / int_c1fffb62	comment	Industrialized Evil: The fallen angels attempt to recreate God's thunder by creating war-machines and cannons from the Primordial Chaos that precedes the Earth. Satan and Belial immediately brag that these machines make their victory eternally certain, just before the loyal angels figure out that giant hills (i.e. symbols of nature) make better projectiles than cannonballs.
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Paradise Lost / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Paradise Lost / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The angels and demons all have golden blood that looks like ambrosia to highlight their god-like power.
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Paradise Lost / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Paradise Lost / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Generally read as either a Byronic Hero, an Anti-Hero, or just a Villain Protagonist. Maybe more than one.
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Paradise Lost / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Paradise Lost / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Moloch is identified amongst the demons for being covered in the blood of children killed by his worshipers in honor of him and the tears of their parents.
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Paradise Lost / int_c7e7529c	type	Five Stages of Grief
Paradise Lost / int_c7e7529c	comment	Five Stages of Grief: Despite predating the KÃ¼bler-Ross model for more than a hundred years, this is the summary of Satan's storyline. Denial: He used to be God's first and most favourite creation, the Archangel Lucifer, but was supplanted by the Son. He could not believe it, that God would love someone more than himself. Anger: Out of envy, pride and rage, he waged a War in Heaven and got kicked out and sent to Hell Bargaining: He thinks that the next best way to get revenge on God is to screw over His most new favoured creation (Mankind) and bargains with Sin and Chaos for this. Depression: Upon arrival on Eden he angsts painfully on how even though he had literally escaped Hell, the true Hell is the misery, rejection and abandonment that forever defined him. Despite being the ruler of Hell, he can never enjoy the rays of the sun, or the lusciousness of Eden. Acceptance: He embraces his evil, "Evil, be thou my Good!" and thus proceeds into his plans to tempt and destroy humanity.
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Paradise Lost / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Paradise Lost / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Gabriel refers to the demonic legion in Book 6 by names that the narrator makes clear back in Book 1 only come into existence thousands of years after the Fall of Adam.
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Paradise Lost / int_cd6b88cd	type	Angels, Devils and Squid
Paradise Lost / int_cd6b88cd	comment	Angels, Devils and Squid: Yes really, although the focus is very much on the former two. The "squid" faction is represented by Chaos and his courtiers.
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Paradise Lost / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Paradise Lost / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Satan is a persuasive and often pathetic individual whom the reader is often encouraged to admire or pity. Large portions of the work are dedicated to his rousing speeches as well as his anguished self-reflections.
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Paradise Lost / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Paradise Lost / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Satan has not just his right arm, but the entire right side of his body cut off in an ill-planned duel with Michael. Though his spiritual nature allows the injury to heal, this introduction to pain marks the loss of his angelic power, life, and goodness that will spur his envy for man's paradise.
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Paradise Lost / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Paradise Lost / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Milton lets you hear Satan's anguished thoughts, wrought in beautiful poetry, to move the reader to pity Satan as he steers irrevocably toward eternal evil.
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Paradise Lost / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Paradise Lost / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Satan's arguments against God are founded largely on principles of democracy and egalitarianism, but he himself is an absolute monarch in Hell and asserts that everybody agreed to make him leader without asking anyone to vote. The demons are all too stupid to notice the hypocrisy, but Gabriel exposes the Devil's lies with every verse he gets.
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Paradise Lost / int_d8dde631	type	You Are Worth Hell
Paradise Lost / int_d8dde631	comment	You Are Worth Hell: Adam recognizes that Eve damned herself by eating from the forbidden fruit, but he feels so connected to her that he eats the fruit and falls so that he can continue to be with "the flesh of his flesh." The logical consequences of this trope follows when the evil and selfishness Adam accepts by falling immediately turns him against Eve, whom he sees now as an inhuman devil entirely to blame for his fall.
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Paradise Lost / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Paradise Lost / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: One of the main differences between the armies of loyal and rebellious angels is that the rebellious ones are described with rigid helmets that dehumanize them into a crowd of soldiers, while the angels are described with no such collectivizing armor. The narrative also emphasizes Satan's crest, a type of helmet, which is the first thing in history ever to be attacked.
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Paradise Lost / int_dc8ecfda	type	Futureshadowing
Paradise Lost / int_dc8ecfda	comment	Futureshadowing: Sin describes the Devil's first injury in the Book Two, before the scene is described with in the context of the War in Heaven in Book Six.
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Paradise Lost / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Paradise Lost / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: As the angels force Satan to flee Eden, the darkness flees with him and the next scene starts at the beginning of the morn. Somewhat implicitly, the rising of the sunrise corresponds with the defeat of evil.
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Paradise Lost / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
Paradise Lost / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Used almost word-for-word when the demons propose creating a "Heaven in Hell" as an alternative to rebelling against God. Had blackjack and hookers existed at the time, they certainly would have been signature attractions.
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Paradise Lost / int_dd3969b	type	Hijacked by Jesus
Paradise Lost / int_dd3969b	comment	Hijacked by Jesus: Milton places the gods of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks in Satan's army, holding that those cultures were fooled by demons into idolatry.
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Paradise Lost / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Paradise Lost / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Satan gets one when two cherubs rebuke him for having changed into his demonic self:
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Paradise Lost / int_de0db2aa	type	Crush Blush
Paradise Lost / int_de0db2aa	comment	Crush Blush: Eve ends up "blushing like the morn" on becoming Adam's wife.
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Paradise Lost / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Paradise Lost / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Book V and Book VI are prequels to the rest of the narrative and recount how the highest of the angels became Satan and rallied other envious Angels to overturn God's omnibenevolent reign. That went as well as any other swing at the Omnipotent and Hell got a lot cozier for the rest of history.
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Paradise Lost / int_e2dae05d	type	Liberty Over Prosperity
Paradise Lost / int_e2dae05d	comment	Liberty Over Prosperity: Satan would rather reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven, and his minions go right along with him. They are all in a literal Self-Inflicted Hell, yet are staunchly determined to remain free in the "universe of Death."
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Paradise Lost / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Paradise Lost / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: In Book II, Death is so fearsome that Hell's land begins to quake in fear. As his spawn, Pestilence and War, take aim at Satan, Hell again trembles and darkens in terror of the coming battle.
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Paradise Lost / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Paradise Lost / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: Of the classical, pre-Christian epic poems, using many of the same tropes and narrative devices — such as the opening invocation of The Muse and beginning the story In Medias Res — in the service of a Biblical story and Christianity.
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Paradise Lost / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Paradise Lost / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: In Paradise Lost, the Serpent from Genesis 3 was the brightest of the angels before his fall. When waging War in Heaven, Satan rides in a chariot as bright as the sun adorned with cherubs and gold, showing that the Devil worships himself as God.
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Paradise Lost / int_e66e9bfb	type	New Era Speech
Paradise Lost / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: Famously, Satan gives a speech in Book I to the demons tying to convince them their imprisonment in Hell marks the foundation of a new kingdom for them where they can be free. Free that is, from celestial light and happy fields.
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Paradise Lost / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Paradise Lost / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: Listen, Jesus is a swell guy, but just know he's going to beat the piss out of you as soon as he starts effusing "smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire." If you don't buy it just ask Satan, or don't, since he still blushes when you mention how Jesus scared him out of Heaven.
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Paradise Lost / int_e71886	type	The Muse
Paradise Lost / int_e71886	comment	The Muse: John Milton asks for Urania, muse of astronomy (and thus, knowledge of God's creation) to inspire him. He clarifies that he's not actually invoking a pagan goddess, just the represented idea.
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Paradise Lost / int_e7466f83	type	Hell of a Heaven
Paradise Lost / int_e7466f83	comment	Hell of a Heaven: After losing the war, Satan states that "The mind is its own place, and in it self. Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
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Paradise Lost / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Paradise Lost / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: A frequent image of Hell, starting early in the poem, is pure darkness.
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Paradise Lost / int_e8f2d4f2	type	The Devil Is a Loser
Paradise Lost / int_e8f2d4f2	comment	The Devil Is a Loser: Despite the story's famous Anti-Villain portrayal of Satan, it ultimately takes this position, especially as the story goes on as Satan becomes ever more cowardly, hypocritical, and petty. Even when Satan is giving his most rousing and introspective speeches, it is made clear Satan is only an epic hero inside of his own mind and these self-defeating speeches only prove far he has fallen from the heights of glory he once occupied.
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Paradise Lost / int_e96c6f02	type	Shed Armor, Gain Speed
Paradise Lost / int_e96c6f02	comment	Shed Armor, Gain Speed: The angels of God adapt to the satanic invention of artillery by throwing away their swords, spears, and shields to allow them the speed to zip past enemy cannon volleys and surprise them. To further the anti-weapons point, the armor the demons wear prevents them from dodging the swift angels' surprise attack.
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Paradise Lost / int_ea8168f	type	Crossover Cosmology
Paradise Lost / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Subverted; only the Christian creation story is portrayed as true, but Milton names many of the The Legions of Hell after preexisting pagan gods. It was common at the time for Christians to claim that pagan gods (including Mesopotamian, Canaanite, Egyptian, and Roman gods) were actually demons.
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Paradise Lost / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Paradise Lost / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: No not the originals, but rather The Son and Satan. Satan was God's favorite child until He created The Son and began to pay more attention to Him. This drove Satan mad with jealousy and in desperation for His attention he decided that if he couldn't be the God's most beloved child, he would be God's most hated enemy.
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Paradise Lost / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Paradise Lost / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Exaggerated Trope; Mammon is so unwilling to owe anything to anyone that he refuses to be eternally happy in perfect communion with creation and instead hopes to make his own empire in Hell just so he can say he did it by his own power. Of course, all his power is derived from God and Beelzebub makes it clear his hope of making an empire in the universe's dungeon is delusional.
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Paradise Lost / int_edad64f9	type	Garden of Eden
Paradise Lost / int_edad64f9	comment	Garden of Eden: Eden is the main setting for Book IV, VIII, IX, and X and is favorably compared to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the lush wilds of the then-largely uncolonized Americas. Of course, the entire garden is corrupted upon Adam and Eve's fall.
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Paradise Lost / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Paradise Lost / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Milton takes the Serpent from the Genesis story and turns him into both an actual serpent as mindless as any other and the Devil, who possesses the serpent to carry out his revenge.
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Paradise Lost / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Paradise Lost / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: This is the first work of fiction to depict Satan as an empathetic character, but it also viciously subverts and deconstructs the idea of him actually being a good person. For starters, he's a hypocrite who justifies his rebellion against God using democratic and egalitarian ideas, but nevertheless rules Hell as an absolute monarch. When his justifications aren't hypocritical, they're fallacious and self-defeating. He even gradually admits to himself that his rhetoric is just him lying to himself and others, and that at the end of the day, he's just a petty, sadistic, vindictive rebel without a cause trying to bring everybody else down to his level.
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Paradise Lost / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Paradise Lost / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: By Book IX, the human race has been corrupted by the Devil and the last two books show all the horrors humanity will have to suffer, including a global disasters, endless war, innumerable diseases, and even the death of the Son of God. In the end, though, Michael reveals all those terrible things will be instrumental to turning the whole Earth into a greater Paradise than Eden, which gives Adam the hope to live on knowing that one day paradise will be regained.
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Paradise Lost / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Paradise Lost / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: The two other members of Satan's incestuous parody of the Trinity represent Sin and Death. There are also the briefly touched upon entities Chaos and Old Night.
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Paradise Lost / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Paradise Lost / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Adam's fall, and thus the fall of all mankind, comes about as a result of his absolute adoration of Eve, without whom he can't bear to live, not even in Paradise. As soon as he falls for her, Adam blames Eve for his own decision, and he insults her until she bursts into tears.
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Paradise Lost / int_f7cf9612	type	Neologism
Paradise Lost / int_f7cf9612	comment	Neologism: Lent the very word "pandemonium" to the language. We use it in English to mean chaos, but in the story it's actually an ordered, reasonable place. One demon suggests it so as to make a Heaven out of Hell. Adam mentions that everything Eve said appeared to be something called "veruousest." That isn't a real variation of "virtuous" and according to the Dartmouth commentary, it is "perhaps the ugliest word in all of Milton's poetry."
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Paradise Lost / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The Father recognizes in His omniscience that Man will freely decide to Satan's temptations and bring Death into the world and no one in Heaven accepts His call for someone to bear the burden of death for them. For that agonizing moment of silence, it seems like humanity is doomed forever... until the Son steps in.
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Paradise Lost / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Paradise Lost / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Of Enoch, one of Adam's only just descendants, the narration says that "him old and young / Exploded." This bizarre sentence to modern ears only makes sense upon realizing "explode" is meant in the sense of "jeer" or "mock."
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Paradise Lost / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
Paradise Lost / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: Satan manages to convince an entire legion of loyal angels to rebel against God with a single speech that only one person is left unconvinced by. Eve laughs at the idea that the Devil could ever tempt her, but as soon as she finishes saying that to Adam, she goes on her own and trusts a contradictory talking snake about rebelling against God.
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Paradise Lost / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Paradise Lost / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: How Satan portrays himself to the other fallen angels.
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Paradise Lost / int_fec81854	type	Sensory Overload
Paradise Lost / int_fec81854	comment	Sensory Overload: The realm of Chaos produces a ringing sound from all the crashing and mixing proto-elements that shocks Satan upon his hearing it. The sound is so great to dwarf any made by the battle-machines of an imperial War God. Once he actually leaves Hell, the noise only gets louder and more stunning as he ever approaches the throne of Chaos.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena	seeAlso	Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	A Hell of a Time / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Adaptational Early Appearance / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Adaptational Heroism / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Alien Blood / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Angels, Devils and Squid / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Archangel Gabriel / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Archangel Michael / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Archangel Raphael / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Archangel Uriel / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Battle Aura / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Being Evil Sucks / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Beneath the Mask / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Blind Seer / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Braids, Beads and Buckskins / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Brains Evil, Brawn Good / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Bring News Back / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Cessation of Existence / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Chest Burster / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Christian Fiction / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	City of the Damned / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Crucial Cross / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Dark Is Evil / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Demonization / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Divinely Appearing Demons / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Dramatic Drop / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Dreaming of Things to Come / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Driven by Envy / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Epic Catalog / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Escaped from Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Evil Is One Big, Happy Family / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Evil Makes You Ugly / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Eye Beams / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Fan of the Past / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Fetus Terrible / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Fire and Brimstone Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Five Stages of Grief / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Flash Step / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Forbidden Zone / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Garden of Eden / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Genius Bonus / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	God Is Good / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Good Needs Evil / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Good People Have Good Sex / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Good Wings, Evil Wings / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Heaven and Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Hell Invades Heaven / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Hell of a Heaven / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Hell on Earth / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Horror Hunger / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	How the Mighty Have Fallen / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	I Fell for Hours / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	In Medias Res / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Indirect Kiss / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Industrialized Evil / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Kung-Fu Jesus / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Let's Split Up, Gang! / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Liberty Over Prosperity / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Love to Hate / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Mainstream Obscurity / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Malevolent Masked Men / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Mammon / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Monster Progenitor / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_3b4153c8
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Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Necessary Fail / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Neologism / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Nightmare Face / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Noble Bird of Prey / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Order Versus Chaos / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Our Orcs Are Different / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Outside-Genre Foe / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	seeAlso	Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Power Levels / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Primordial Chaos / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Rebel Leader / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Red Is Violent / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Revenge Through Corruption / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Satan / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Satan Is Good / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Savage Wolves / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Scene of Wonder / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Science Is Wrong / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Self-Inflicted Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Shed Armor, Gain Speed / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Sinister Scythe / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Spontaneous Generation / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Stairway to Heaven / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Start My Own / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Stupid Sacrifice / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Annotated Edition / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Devil Is a Loser / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Epic / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Grim Reaper / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Legions of Hell / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Omniscient / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Only One / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Paragon Always Rebels / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	The Power of the Sun / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	This Is Your Brain on Evil / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Twice-Told Tale / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	Yin-Yang Bomb / int_3b4153c8
Paradise Lost	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_3b4153c8
LetLoveIn	seeAlso	Paradise Lost
Pandemonium	seeAlso	Paradise Lost

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