how is paradise lost cinsidered an epic?
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Please take a look at this site:  http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Epic_Poetry\n\nUnder the heading "Characteristics," you will find the characteristics of epics AND it also has examples of those characteristics specifically in Paradise Lost.
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he cinematography was great. I was blown away by the beauty of this film. Geez, the costumes were neat, too, and the sets. I really liked the Mayan temple and the action at the Queen of Spain's court.\n\nBut what was with that plot? Your guess is as good as mine but I think that it was basically set in the present, with the doctor and his wife existing somewhere around our timeline and being the only "real" characters. The bald Hugh Jackman was his (the doctor's) "higher self." He could have been the doctor in the future, hundreds of years from now because his discovery has made the human lifespan so very, very long or let people be immortal but I think the parts of him in the bubble were also dreams or fanatsies. TheQueen and the Conquistador were just the wife's story. C'mon, who believes a Spanish Queen will promise herself to a conquistador and offer to be his "Eve?"\n\nAnd, towards the end, when he went out to walk in the snow with her (even though, in reality, he'd kept working and let her leave without him) was just his wishful thinking and regrets, not an alternate timeline, right?\n\nWhen the Mayan went to kill him and then said "sorry, I didn't know you were 1st father" is where I think Hugh Jackman/the doctor was dreaming and trying to finish his wife's story. The Mayan priest saw the Conquistador turn into the bald Hugh Jackman in the meditation pose and assumed that he was "1st father," the man who died so that the Tree of Life could grow out of him and the universe begin. He was protecting the tree from everyone else and awaiting the day when "1st father" would come back. \n\nSince it was just a dream and the plants symbolized rebirth and, beings as this was like the doctor's fantasy of how his wife's story could end, it was a positive note where he had hope of eternal life. The guy in the bubble and the fantasies about the Conquistador were all ways for the Hugh Jackman "doctor" character to deal with the loss of his wife, Izzie.
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Some people believe in a paradise that is a beautifull warm garden where all our loved ones wait for and watch over us. The garden is full of sweet smelling flowers, fruit and vegtables, and there are waterfalls of clean crisp water to swim and bathe in. Beautifull birds sing in the trees and soar in the sky over head and every day is spent in the sunshine.There is no hate and greed, no cruelty,no pain, only pleasure, love and happiness.\nIf this is true, then you can find little pieces of Heaven on earth, everytime it is a beautifull blue sky fluffy cloud sweet breeze day, everytime you bite into a fresh perfectly ripe piece of fruit, or swim in a crisp mountain stream.\nThere is a mountain river by my boyfriends house and everyday we would hike down to it to shower. The sun would be hot and the water would be fresh and cool. We would sit on the bank for a half hour or so befor going in, and watch the birds and butterflys flying over head, listen and watch the water flowing over the rocks, and it felt like heaven to me, like everything was as it should be.That's my idea of heaven, of paradise.\nThanks for the greate question, I enjoyed thinking about it and anserwing it.
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It will be Paradise! ...a combination of the Garden of Eden with the Law of God (i.e. the Torah) in His Heavenly Kingdom. Hallelujah!
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Rule in Hell: The question is from Paradise Lost
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Versus\n\nMaybe you can find it at a Blockbuster.  It's very intense and good.
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Here's the thing....the characters are all allegories of types of government. So ask yourself how does Ralph govern and how does Jack govern? You could google or search on Wikipedia types of government and ask yourself which character fits into which mode. For example, I would say that Ralph represents socialism, versus Jack's mode which is more monarchy/heirarchy. \n\nGood luck.
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One glance at the back synopsis would reveal that Odysseus is the hero of the Odyssey. (And it is spelled: Odyssey!)\n\nThe epic tells of the story of Odysseus' journey back home to Ithaca from the ruins of Troy. \n\nTrivia!  ~Odysseus is known as Ulysses in Roman Literature.
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Oh, golly. This takes me back to high school. If I remember right, an epic is characterized by three things: Length, purpose, and content.\n\nEpics are narrative style, telling a story. The story is culturally significant, and takes a long time to make the point. The Illiad/Oddessy poem, for example, explained to early Greeks how their civilization was unfied for the first time and how the gods played a part in the process. The Aenead, on the other hand, gave evidence to Romans that their ruling family had been divinely selected from the distant past.
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Since it is a story that has been told, adapted, and read by millions of people for hundreds of years, I would say that makes it "timeless."  It contains universal themes that are relevant to every generation and even across cultures.  Themes like family grudges, young people in love, love/relationships that are doomed from the start.
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John Prine wrote it here's a quote from him about the song but John Denver did do a remake of the song on his Rocky Mountain High Album\n\nParadise notes\n\n    "I wrote it for my father, mainly so he would know I was a songwriter. Paradise was a real place in Kentucky, and while I was away in the Army in Germany, my father sent me a newspaper article telling how the coal company had bought the place out. It was a real Disney-looking town. It sat on a river, had two stores, and there was one black man in town, Bubba Short, who looked like Uncle Remus and hung out with my Granddaddy Hamm, my mom's dad, all day, fishing for catfish.     \nThen the bulldozers came in and wiped it all off the map. \nWhen I recorded the song, I brought a tape of the record to my dad; I had to borrow a reel-to-reel machine to play it for him. When the song came on, he went into the next room and sat in the dark while it was on. I asked him why, and he said he wanted to pretend it was on the jukebox." ~John Prine
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Lost is an American drama-adventure television series concerning the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious, tropical deserted island. It was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, is produced by Bad Robot Productions and Touchstone Television, and airs on the ABC network. The music is composed by Michael Giacchino.\n\nEach episode begins with a cold open, preceded by a recap of events that have a bearing on the upcoming narrative. At a dramatic juncture, the screen cuts to black and the show's title graphic is depicted slightly out-of-focus, gliding towards the viewer. It is accompanied by an ominous, discordant sound. The opening credits are then shown over the scenes that follow. In common with other series, the script is structured around commercial breaks, and will usually incorporate a minor cliff-hanger at such a point. Episodes often end with a suspenseful twist, revealed just seconds before a smash cut to black, but at other times may finish with a story resolved, and a quiet closing scene that precedes a simple fade-out.
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I belive that if paradise exists it will be something TOTALLY DIFFERENT from what we call physical and spiritiual..it is supposed to be a type of pleasure much more joyous than anything we've ever experienced. I guess that's what all religions say anyway.
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An epic is a long narrative poem written in an elevated style. It is usually based on the exploits of legendary or divine characters, and deals with events significant to an entire society. \n\nThe traditional or folk epics are based upon legend and history preserved through oral traditions. Such epics include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the medieval epic Beowulf. Literary epics are learned imitations of the traditional form, such as Virgil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). \n\nSome recurring features of the structure and action of classical epics have come to be viewed as epic conventions. Structurally, the epic begins with a statement of the poem's "argument" (subject matter), proceeds to an invocation to a muse or divine source of inspiration, and then jumps into the action in medias res ("in the middle of things"). Earlier events are later recounted in narrative flashbacks. \n\nOther epic conventions include the arming of the hero, extraordinary deeds of battle, a great journey (including a descent to the underworld), and the active intervention of gods or supernatural beings. \n\nBy extension, the term "epic" is also applied to novels, dramas, and films which have epic grandeur in the scale of their action or the importance of their subject to human society at large.
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You must understand that all great love stories must end in tragedy: can you imagine Romeo marrying Juliet and living happily ever after? No. Don't think of the movie in terms of sadness, but in terms of compassion: it was so well crafted that it allowed you to see the world from a different perspective than your usual one, thus opening the way for change. It is a universal tale of loss which reverberates with all of our losses, and teaches us to cherish what little time we have, to take chances. \n\nAlso, take a good hard look at the final scenes. Remember when Del Mar found the shirt and jacket? Jack's shirt was covering Del Mar's jacket: this represented their relationship. Twist had to repress his emotions with more difficulty than Del mar. But at the end, it was Del Mar's jacket that covered Twist's shirt: the two lovers had finally come full circle. I don't see this as sad, but as wonderful. Death had brought them, finally, to the same place. Ang Lee and Proux are geniuses! Hail!
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To begin with, the film was by noted chinese director Zhang Yimou, with cinematography by Christopher Doyle. Tarantino was merely used to promote the film in America.\n\nThe story is about the Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of China, who managed to conquer and unify the whole of China as well as 3 assassins who are attempting to kill him as revenge for his actions in unifying the country. In the end, one assassin, played by Jet Li, provides proof that he was vanquished the others and is brought before the king.\n\nHowever, we soon realise that his version of events may not be entirely truthful, and we the story is then retold, centering around the same characters by from a different viewpoint.\n\nAs to what it is 'about', this film has been criticized as supporting autocratic rule. One of the central themes is the  parallel between the individual, and the lust for revenge, and that of the state as a whole, and the stability brought about by having one ruler (even if it came at a significant cost).
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try somethin of Vangelis\nin my own i like conquest of paradise (soundtrack of 1492)\ncongrats.