Sometimes, we are bombarded with evil: Dark imagery, music, words, and so on, can find their way into our lives. The age-old adage “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” does not carry the weight it once did, and we may even find ourselves enjoying the dark things as entertainment. But should we instead identify these things as evil and change our approach to them?
To consider this question, we continue to follow Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and Gustav Doré’s accompanying illustrations. In the previous installment in this series, Milton’s Satan came upon God’s creation: two human beings, Adam and Eve, enjoying the fruits of paradise. The archangel Uriel, who unwittingly pointed out Earth to a disguised Satan, hurries to the archangel Gabriel to warn him of the suspicious character searching for Earth.
