since i'm also supposed to relate this back to "modern media" in my life the closest i can come to at this point is princess celestia from "my little pony". basically her sister, luna, gets jealous/possessed by an evil spirit and made jealous, that celestia gets to rule the day, and she gets shafted with the night, revolts and banished to the moon where she mopes around for 1000 years. Moral of the story (like most bible stories): god- i mean celestia is a bitch that instead of actually doing anything to help her sister, just hides the problem, and luna makes some secret revenge plot that fails because SHE'S FIGHTING GOD.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Paradise Lost: The first installments
So I'm most of the way through the first book of the book by this point. it's hard to get through because the language is tough, but that's forgivable because of the time period and that style being all the rage. why i'm not forgiving Milton for however is, first the fact that he's trying so hard to be plato, and second the characters so far. I don't know why blind people think that they're instantly some channel of the gods, just because they have a birth defect. the same with Plato channeling the muse, Milton assuming he knows what happened before the universe existed, and that blind guy from "Oh Brother, Where art thou?" although i guess he represents Plato, but that's still more instances than necessary. and going along with that, why is everyone trying to be Plato and recreate the Odyssey? i mean the "Epic Poem" by Milton is even divided into books. try and be original and at least call it scriptures or something. and then the characters are the worst. first is Beelzebub, who spend the entire time kissing Satan's ass, which i guess fits his character, even if it's annoying. But Satan spends the entire time whining about how he was defeated by the omnipotent God. what the hell (ha pun) did he expect to happen? that God would just say "you know what guys? i'm not just gonna wish you out of existance or turn you all in to a piles of poop, i'll give you a fair fight." Satan is the whiny little girl, and it does make me dislike him, which was Milton's intention, but at the same time, it makes him seem very unbelievable, although all the self proclaimed "princes of darkness" always seem to have the same daddy issues. 
since i'm also supposed to relate this back to "modern media" in my life the closest i can come to at this point is princess celestia from "my little pony". basically her sister, luna, gets jealous/possessed by an evil spirit and made jealous, that celestia gets to rule the day, and she gets shafted with the night, revolts and banished to the moon where she mopes around for 1000 years. Moral of the story (like most bible stories): god- i mean celestia is a bitch that instead of actually doing anything to help her sister, just hides the problem, and luna makes some secret revenge plot that fails because SHE'S FIGHTING GOD.
since i'm also supposed to relate this back to "modern media" in my life the closest i can come to at this point is princess celestia from "my little pony". basically her sister, luna, gets jealous/possessed by an evil spirit and made jealous, that celestia gets to rule the day, and she gets shafted with the night, revolts and banished to the moon where she mopes around for 1000 years. Moral of the story (like most bible stories): god- i mean celestia is a bitch that instead of actually doing anything to help her sister, just hides the problem, and luna makes some secret revenge plot that fails because SHE'S FIGHTING GOD.
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