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Study on the Milton's Idea of Salvation in the English Education: Renovation and Salvation in Paradise Lost

The aim of this study is to examine what's difference of repentance between Adam and Eve and Satan in the falling and how the salvation can be achieved. God creates man that he should not be fallen, but could be fallen on his free-will. Man, the result of disobedience, gets faced with crisis of eternal death through abusing his free-will. The salvation of this kind should be considered in connection with Milton's view of religion and his theological thoughts. Milton's epic, Paradise Lost, retells the story of the fall of Adam and Eve and Satan as told in the beginning of the book Genesis and Ezekiel in the Bible. After falling, Adam and Eve had a repentance that was conviction of sin, contrition, confession and departure from evil, however, Satan never turn to the repentance though he recognized his sin to God. Book 9 is the retelling of the fall and, by many accounts, the climax of the epic and of Milton's poetic corpus. Book 10, God sends the Son to earth to temper justice with mercy. Book 11 and 12 include Adam's repentance, dream and a vision of the future, as narrated by the angel Michael. In the end, the completion of salvation in Milton is not the lost of paradise for the disobedience of Adam and Eve, but regaining renovation, the better paradise through the His son, the Meidator of Christ.