*The passage that I wanted to focus on for this post is found in Book III, lines 93-111. It was a bit longer so I didn't want it to take up too much space.*
Growing up, my dad was always obsessed with talking to us kids about free will and choice. Every time the littlest allusion was made--be in from TV, books, or elsewhere--he couldn't seem to help himself from going on these long tangents on about how central the idea of free will is and how we probably can't understand exactly
how important. Yada yada yada... (I actually grew to love our conversations, and they can still last for hours at a time.)
Luckily, I was reading Book III of Paradise Lost at my parents house, and when I came across this passage, I yelled for my dad to come listen so I could read it to him.
It really got me thinking...where would this story have gone if we
didn't have free will? What if they had gone along with Satan's plan and taken away the free agency of Man?
