Justifying the Ways of God to Man: Paradise Lost, Book III One of the most important things an individual can do in his or her life is come to an understanding of God. It takes some people all of their lives to figure out whether they even believe in a God, never mind which one. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone to portray God as a character in a poem, especially someone who had a good idea about the God he believed in. Milton, however, may have come very close to hitting the nail on the head in his portrayal of God's nature in the first 200 lines of Book III of Paradise Lost. Milton sets out to "justify the ways of God to men" (Chambers, 26), which ultimately he proves he does not need to do. In Book III, we are taken up to Heaven by Milton, who opens the book by mourning his loss of sight. It is through this loss of physical visio....

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