『복낙원』에 나타난 사탄의 닫힌 세계관과 그리스도의 열린 세계관

Abstract

In Milton's Paradise Regained the dialogue between Jesus Christ and Satan is a vehicle of noncommunication. Although two voices supposedly address each other, they issue from wholly different points of reference. They become a meaningless echo because they cannot carry the real message.The main reason for their noncommunication can be found in the different view of the world between the two characters. Satan's temptations shows that he is captured in the fixed view of the world. Satan thinks Fortune or Fate, not God is the source of all decrees. He ascribes all events to chance or fortune. This shows that his view of the world is deeply rooted in fatalism. From the first temptation to the last, he tries to seduce Jesus Christ based on the secular, materialistic value of this world. His thought and ideas are basically stagnant. All the time he grounds his realpolitik on the assumption of unchanging human nature.On the contrary the hero Jesus Christ's concern is constantly on God's providence and his time. He rejects the value of money and this world. Instead he emphasizes the value of Christian virtue and the kingdom of God. He is not locked in the past but open to the future with the potential for new creation to ascend eventually to God.