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Abstract Infsofar as oratory is the dominant feature in the first two books in paradise lost, shedding light on this aspect is indispensable to the reader’s understaning of the true nature of satan and the other fallen angrls. The epic opens with satan plotting for the temptation of man, and it satan’s eloquence in the council in hell that resulted in accomplishing the subject of the epic. Also, the understanding of the first two books is central to the understanding of the poem as a whole. |