Not Only is Paradise Lost, I'm Lost

  So, Paradise Lost is different. I'm catching some stuff about Satan and God, Heaven and Hell, all that fun stuff. I get the Adam and Eve part and then I know it goes on to describing Satan's fall into Hell, but it loses me there. He starts off by saying that it is about men's disobedience and the fruit, which brought death, and suffering into the world. Then he switches (from what I can tell) pretty quickly into discussing Satan's fall from heaven. The one description that is generally easy to understand is about the lake of fire Satan and all his followers fall into, and how it doesn't produce any light. This part also establishes that they are in a place where hope cannot exist; making it pretty clear that this is the development of hell. This is a really helpful description to develop some sort of picture of hell in my mind. The footnotes are also super helpful at some points, they help to make some sense of what I just read. Especially since there are biblical references, and references to early Christian beliefs that most Christians now wouldn't even know about. Like the note that talks about Christians believing the Greek Gods were devils in disguise, I had no idea that this was a belief ever. I wish that I could tell more what was happening because I feel like it could be really interesting. Then his sentence structure just keeps helping me not understand. I feel like I read a lot of words and they’re just words.  I know that if I really understood this I could probably spend quite a bit of time admiring his work, but right now it’s not there yet. There is very little deeper meaning when you can’t understand what is happening. It’s not a different language, but the structure and the order of words, and the general deep descriptions of things make it confusing for me. I don’t think I’ll be alone in saying that I’m confused, but I would also like to state that I do not want to go back to Middle English anytime soon.  I mean altogether I would say I'm pretty lost. 

The minute Dr. MB mentioned that it was about Satan's fall from Heaven I thought of Emperor's New Clothes and how the video fits that.