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Mr Menace
07-08-2008, 11:08 PM
I need to find two appropriations (works that draw on the original text) of Paradise Lost.

So far I have the His Dark Materials series by Philliip Pullman, but I am having trouble finding anything else.

Any suggestions?

JCamilo
07-08-2008, 11:11 PM
Maybe Mary Shelley Frankstein or Neil Gaiman Sandman's (the Season of the Mists part)

Quark
07-08-2008, 11:23 PM
How about the mock-heroic works in Eighteenth-century Lit? Milton was much parodied figure then.

djy78usa
07-08-2008, 11:37 PM
Does it have to been in literature? If not, (CAUTION: ITS ABOUT TO GET NERDY IN HERE!!!!) what about Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith? Anakin Skywalker's submission to the dark side is reminiscent of Lucifer's fall from grace. Watching him lay, writhing on the ground, reminds me of Lucifer as a serpent. The final scene, where Darth Vader is revealed, could also be a reference to Lucifer's triumphant return to Hell.

aeroport
07-09-2008, 12:05 AM
I think it is also present (though very vaguely) in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. But I'd stick with the Mary Shelley.