Author Intention through Character Reaction in Paradise Lost and the Bl

How would you react if you complete you had altered the future of an entire people? Would you be sympathetic or apologetic? Would you be regretful or sincere? I take that the reaction of a person in such a circumstance gives insight into their quality of character and shows us the real extent of their exploit over their surroundings and beyond. John Miltons cristal in heaven Lost altered the future for mankind just as Margaret Cavendishs Empress of the Blazing World altered the future for the inhabitants of the Blazing World. Both characters realised the consequences of their actions and desired to change it back to the authoritative state. Both were regretful for their deeds. However, the behavior in which each of the characters showed regret gives us insight into the respective reasons intention for the work. By analyzing the difference between the lamentations of Adam and the Empress, we goat see strikingly opposing approaches to the same desire to correct the wrong. Ad am falls into a sincere state of despair while the Empress is often more apathetic about the situation. From this observation, we can make claims about Milton and Cavendish and his or her reasoning for fashioning the characters in the way they are portrayed. From the outset of the plot, the storylines of two texts seem to parallel along a very similar outline. The coal scuttle of each story is a description of a paradise, free from the decadence of conflict, deception, or sin and more importantly, free from the issue of a outside(prenominal) influence. Perhaps the most influential factor that allows these paradises to continue in their sea captain state is the innocence they possess from just not knowing every other way, the lack of alien influence. This lack of knowledge was G... ...g entirely fictitious, fabricated, and immaterial. This diversity impacted the reactions of Adam and the Empress. Adams real conception inevitable a natural, real reaction just as the Empress artificial existence conjured a false, inhuman reaction. The apathetic footmark of the Empress reflect the apathetic tone of Cavendish in stating her intended purpose for the work. The serious tone of Adam mirrored the seriousness of Miltons intended purpose. Both Adam and the Empress had decidedly altered the future conditions of an entire people to the point that they desired restoration of the original status. However, the Empress apathetic tone and Adams serious tone shows, respectively, some(prenominal) the extent of influence of the affected people, the reality factor of that people, and most significant, the vastness of those people upon the current state of the contemporary world.