The
paper examines John Milton's Poem "Paradise Lost", showing the poem to be a struggle between good and evil; this being
the case, it would seem only logical that God would be the protagonist of the poem, and Satan the antagonist. The
paper observes that God in the poem makes for a rather lackluster hero: Milton's God is hardly the caring, loving and omnipotent deity of Christianity. It shows that the result of Milton's portrayal of Satan and God is an account of the fall that is anything but a straightforward allegory of good and evil. Neither Satan nor God is
completely good or completely evil; in both, the two qualities are joined in the same person.