John Milton's Paradise Lost - Book Report/Review Example

A big degree of expansion of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, as one might predict, takes a bit of liberty with the original storyline that is developed within the first few chapters of Genesis.  As a means of analyzing this differential, the following analysis will seek to engage the reader with a further explanation and discussion of the ways in which John Milton deviates from an understanding of biblical theology that is represented within Genesis 1. As such, rather than taking the entire point in seeking to categorize and differentiate the ways in which deviation occurs, the following analysis will be concentric upon book 7 lines 387 to 448.

In such a way, and analysis and discussion of the fifth day of creation will be leveraged.Firstly, the corresponding Scripture that this particular passage in Milton’s book 7 references in Genesis 1 verses 20 through 22. As might be expected, the level of development and discussion that exists within the few verses is quite sustained and brief. Ultimately, Genesis 1 verses 20-22 merely denote that God created fish, sea life, and all birds, reptiles, and other winged creatures. Yet, with this in mind, an interesting oversight that John Milton evidently made within book 7 is with respect to the assumption that reptiles, at the very least snakes, could somehow be separated from other winged and flying creatures.

Although this may seem like an obvious assumption, further reading and interpretation of the Genesis story, made by many Biblical scholars to include Martin Luther, relates the fact that serpents were originally a creature of intense beauty that was only cursed to crawl on their belly after the deception that Satan perpetrated.