Paradise Lost에 나타난 죄 = Milton`s Nature of Sin Reflected in Paradise Lost

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It is to examine the nature of Sin in Milton's Paradise Lost. The sin of the fallen man was the result of his disobdience to God through abusing his free will. As for Eve, her pride caused by the weakness of her reason (BK. IX, 530-48) brings about her unbelief and deifies herself. On the other hand, as for Adam, the confusion of his reason and the weakness of his will are accelerated by Eve's beauty, and finally he idolizes Eve and challenges the Providence of creation. Milton regards it as the liability to fall, which men possess universally. Milton is more concerned with the explanation of the fallen state of mankind and the corruptive process instead of examining minutely the cause of the fall. Then, what is the most disastrous effect of the fall of mankind? In a word, it is "death". Disobedience takes away the eternal blessing from men. In the Christian Doctrine Milton distinguishes the kinds of death: 1) All those evils which lead to death 2) spiritual death 3) the death of body, and 4) the fourth and last degree of death. Of these the most disastrous kind of death is a spiritual death. It includes the consciousness of sin accompanied by all evil and terror which has entered into this world immediately after the Fall, the consciousness of despair resulted from the loss of God's grace, and the sense of disgrace that all men are corrupted. In sum, this kind of death means the loss of death means the loss of God's grace and Original Justice.