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**__The Parallels between Milton's world and Paradise Lost itself.__**
Paradise Lost, an epic poem written in the 17th century and published in 1667 draws upon biblical characters to demonstrate the subject of Lucifers fall from Heaven and the subsequent war on God including the introduction of and fall of man. Many themes are discussed throughout the text such as marriage and the relationship between Adam and Eve, Idolatry, fore knowledge and predestination and the notion itself of good and evil.

In order to understand Paradise Lost further however it is important to look in depth at the contextual factors at the time of the poem and the parallels that can be made using this information, this includes the parallels of the war on god and the civil war, the character of Satan contrasted to Oliver Cromwell and the new existence of the “Christian epic” against the classical pagan epic.