True Paradise and the Prevention of its Loss As Marcel Proust once wrote in his novel “The Penguin Proust, “The only true paradise is paradise lost.” In the world renowned epic poem written by John Milton, the author is able to skillfully depict a time when Satan and his legion of angels waged eternal war upon the Almighty Creator, the terrible aftermath of the battle and the plight they were to undertake in order to seek revenge against their unmistakably great opponent. The poem, which is a piece of poetry playfully straddling the borders of fiction and history, attempts to explain the nature of good, evil and Man. We are faced with a number of concepts that are taken from the Bible itself, integrated into a grand idea of the author on the universe and the two sides that are constantly at war with each other. One such example of a concept taken from the Bible, and a rather popular belief of many, is the fall of Man from the Garden of Eden with the taste of an apple taken from the Forbidden tree. As seen in the first five lines, “Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden tree, whose mortal tast brought Death into the World, and all our woe, with loss of Eden, til one greater Man restore us, and regain the blissful Seat.” (Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 1-5) described the fall of Man which was later on described in the Bible as the event that would bring the Son to the world and bring forth salvation for all sinners as also seen in the following lines, “The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life” (Gen 3:14). In these two lines it is somewhat evident that John Milton possessed a talent of mixing certain facts with fiction, common and ordinary beliefs and practices with wild imaginations that enabled the readers to consider the text for a fleeting moment as an actual reference...