Paradise Lost and the endless search for truth For some, truth is something absolute and immutable. For others, the truth is volatile and fickle. In the 16th and 17th centuries the very foundations of civilization were shaken. Many of the ideas believed to be absolutely true had fallen into the abyss of uncertainty. Cosmological, geographical and religious revolutions have called into question the very nature of truth. It is no wonder, then, that some of the great writers of the day included in their works a treatise on the ways in which truth is constructed. Because of the great ideological revolutions that shaped their world, Milton used characters and theatrical devices to create his own ideas about the construction of truth. As a result of Milton's failed political aspirations, he believes that individuals do not construct the truth, nor decide for themselves what the truth is; instead, individuals receive the truth directly or indirectly from God. Conversely, deception comes from Satan. In Paradise Lost, Milton defines this idea by forcing good to result only from obedience to God's will and evil to result whenever God is disobeyed. Dr. Evans's argument that Milton's end point in all this is to express a very extreme moral position, that no quality or action can be innately good or bad, is firmly rooted in this model. What determines the morality of everything we do is in the service of whom we do it. Since Raphael was sent by God, his warning is true and divine. Because Satan disobeyed God, his ideas are all false lies. Part of Milton's ideology may have come from his own life experiences. After the restoration of the monarchy, his political aspirations were crushed. As a result, he probably lost some faith in individuals' ability to correctly determine the truth for themselves. It would be comforting to him, then, if truth and goodness could come only from God. Milton's experiences greatly influence his conception of truth, prompting him to develop truth as something that comes from a single divine source and is absolutely constant . Milton believes, on the other hand, that because humans are imperfect, mistakes will eventually be made in deriving the truth. So, rather than letting individuals decide on the vast array of ideas in the world, it is more comforting to Milton to have truth decided by a divine authority. Milton uses the characters of God and Raphael to construct his idea of ​​divine truth. Raphael is a messenger sent directly from God, and because Adam disobeys his warnings, Adam lets Eve separate from him, which leads to the fall of man. It is important that Raphael is a messenger figure, as he opposes Satan, who communicates his message to his allies. According to Milton it is not necessarily the message or idea itself that determines its validity, but whoever says the message determines its truthfulness. Although Satan's message appears to contain elements of nobility, facing seemingly impossible odds and turning fear into hope, because that message comes from Satan, it is inherently negative. Messenger figures impose on us a notion of truth based on the origin of the message rather than the content of the message. Milton uses this deceptive notion of truth in Paradise Lost to construct a theory of morality based on the individual performing the action rather than the action itself. With the character of Satan, Milton offers many examples of deception, only one of which is Satan's temptation of Eve. Many of the events.