| Summary: | This paper aims to discuss evil representation in John Miltons Paradise Lost.
The paper begins for Paul Ricoeurs speech that concerns the nature of evil; the text was a speech
originally and has been transformed in a book. Pointing the similitude between theocratic
thought, as showed by Ricoeur, and the fist satanic soliloquy the paper exposes the proximity
between both. In the philosophical, text evil is defined as a confrontation between personal wish
and obligation to others. The same can be perceived in Miltons epic, therefore the paper
concludes the evil nature of the satanic character can be characterized by the non-agreement
between personal wish and moral obligation.
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