John Milton’s Paradise Lost portrays the fall of humankind through the works of the fallen angel Satan. This piece is a classic epic poem which describes the fall of Satan and the other angels, the creation of the earth and humankind, and the subsequent fall of human kind into sin. At the heart of the tragic descent of God’s creations is their ability to make free decisions, free choice: “I made him just …showed first 75 words of 1030 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1030 total…She was doomed to live a life of sin. Throughout the entire poem the idea of free thought was proclaimed. This ability to choose between right and wrong was central to the fall of Satan, Adam and Eve. However, to be able to choose between good and evil implies that one has knowledge of both. God’s creations had an inborn idea of what it was to sin, brought about through the temptation of others.