This is significant with darkness and light because Adam is not dark like Satan but he can no longer stand in the light of God because he is marked.
John Milton utilizes images of light and dark in "Paradise Lost" in many different ways to help us understand the story he is presenting. He begins with establishing firm principles associated with images of light and dark. The image of God and the angels certainly represent the light of Heaven while Satan and his minions represent the darkness of Hell. These descriptions are powerful and prove the author's point. However, the poet also decides to take the concepts of light and dark a bit further by introducing man as a pivotal figure that can be influenced by both. As a result, his life can be altered by...
The lines that separate light, dark, good, and evil suddenly become blurry when we look at them through the consequences of sin committed in the Garden of Eden. Milton's attempt to convey the complexity of this situation is successful in that we understand consequences of our actions but that does not make temptation any easier to resist. Capturing all of this within the epic, Milton allows us to understand good and evil through symbolism and the most powerful of them are darkness and light. Through understanding how they operate allows us to understand how paradise was lost so easily.
Works Cited
Milton, John. The English Poems of John Milton. London: Oxford University Press. 1926.
