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 spent six straight years reading every book he could get his hands on. However, he ended up going blind because when he read, the only lighting he had was candle light, so he literally read eyes. Still, that was before he could do anything big, so he gathered his daughters together and asked her to write an epic poem that he had written in his head. This poem his daughters wrote for him is known as Paradise Lost, a poem about the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible. The epic poem expresses the idea of ​​Satan being an angel who had just fallen because he and other angels started a war against God because they did not want to serve him, so they plan to corrupt humanity to get themselves revenge on God and their mission is successful, but it was part of God's plan. However, if God is seemingly all-powerful and all-loving, why doesn't He help people in need? Why is there death and sickness and if He has the ability, why doesn't He do anything about it? Milton attempts to justify God's ways toward humanity through this poem, or in other words, Milton's Theodicy as defined by Joseph Kett, "The stated purpose 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 of Paradise Lost can be divided into three key elements: the events preceding the fall of man, the events in the Garden of Eden, and finally what happens after the fall. The first element of Milton's theodicy of Paradise Lost is e. ..... middle of paper ...... must give them a punishment, and what better punishment than to ban them and their children from the garden forever. Overall, this explanation works because bad things cannot go unpunished; This is exactly how things are supposed to be. Works Cited Airey, L, Jennifer.. "Eve's Nature, Eve's Nurture in Dryden's Edenic Opera." Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900 3(2010):529. Electronic library. Internet. February 23, 2014. Hyman, John. “THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.” Think 25(2010):9. Electronic library. Internet. February 24, 2014. Kett, Joseph F. “justifying the ways of God toward men.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. 2002. Electronic library. Internet. February 23, 2014. Marks, Cato. “Writings of the left hand: William Blake forges a new political aesthetic.” Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (2011): 43. Electronic Library. Internet. February 23, 2014.Mitchell, Ruth. Paradise lost. Barron's, 2004. Electronic Library. Internet. February 23. 2014.