PART ONE: John Milton is the greatest poet of all time. Oddly enough, he wanted to be as great as Homer or Virgil and be remembered like them. Milton had this thing called Photographic Memory, so he remembered everything he read. He even spends six consecutive years reading every book he can get his hands on. However, he ended up going blind because when he read the only illumination he had was from a candle, so he literally read with his eyes open. However, this was before he could do anything great, so he gathered his daughters and made them write an epic poem that he had written in his head. This poem written by his daughters for him is known as Paradise Lost, a poem about the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible. The epic expresses the idea of ​​Satan as a newly fallen angel because he and other angels started a war against God because they didn't want to serve him, so they plan to corrupt humanity to take revenge on God and their mission was successful, but it did part of God's plan. However, if God is seemingly omnipotent and loving, why doesn't he help people in need? Why is there death and disease and if He has the ability, why doesn't He do anything about it? Milton seeks to justify God's ways to humanity through this poem, or in other words, Milton's theodicy as defined by Joseph Kett, “The stated goal of the poet John Milton in his poem Paradise Lost. Milton tries to explain why God allowed the fall of man.” (Kett, Joseph F). John Milton's theodicy from Paradise Lost can be broken down into three key components: the events before the fall of man, the events in the Garden of Eden, and finally what happens after the fall. The first component of Milton's Theodicy from Paradise Lost is the and. ..... middle of paper ...... must give them punishment, and what better punishment than to banish them and their children out of the garden forever. Overall, this explanation works because bad things cannot go unpunished; it's just how things should be. Works Cited Airey, L, Jennifer.. "The Nature of Eve, the Education of Eve in Dryden's Edenic Work." Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900 3(2010):529. eLibrary. Network. February 23, 2014.Hyman, John. "THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE." Think 25 (2010):9. eLibrary. Network. February 24, 2014.Kett, Joseph F. "Justifying the ways of God to men, a." The new dictionary of cultural literacy. 2002. eLibrary. Network. 23 February 2014.Marchi, Catone. "Writings of the Left Hand: William Blake Forges a New Political Aesthetic." Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (2011):43. eLibrary. Network. February 23, 2014.Mitchell, Ruth.. Paradise Lost. Barron's, 2004. eLibrary. Network. February 23. 2014.