Paris (English, emeritus, the University of Florida) argues that many of the controversies surrounding Milton's Paradise Lost derive from the fact that God, Satan, Adam, and Eve have mimetic
characteristics that conflict with their aesthetic and illustrative roles. This has led some critics to claim that Milton mismanaged his material. Rather than seeing the characters merely in
doctrinal terms, Paris views them as characters whose conflicts drive the story, "creations inside a creation that threaten to subvert the formal and thematic schemes within which they exist."
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