MY ANALYSIS OF PARADISE LOST

I think Paradise lost is a representation of protestant doctrine of life.This view says that everything is predestined or runs according to the will of God.Milton in his epic tries to uphold this doctrine and accordingly he says"I may assert eternal providence,/And justify the ways of God to man."Here satan is the representative of free will and he things it is unconquerable.But from the statement of milton which I have mentioned,it is clear that he in no way supports the free will and will justify God's will.Some lines of Satan or miltons comments may appear as examples of milton's sympathy to satan but if we see closely we will find the fruitlessness of these debates because satan was actually trying to depict the real nature of a creature who thinks that he has a free will.obviously as he was trying to present a true nature,there comes few heroic characteristics of satan as well as some bad characteristics.But it does not mean that he was in Satan's side rather it proves he can depict a character more realistically.