Lucifer’s logic: argumentation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.15467

Authors

  • Fabiano Seixas Fernandes Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.15467

Keywords:

John Milton, Paradise Lost, argumentation

Abstract

The present article aims at undertaking an analysis of the argumentative component of a passage from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which is intended to shed light on some compositional aspects of the epic’s protagonist, Lucifer/Satan. The passage selected for analysis is the one in which Satan convinces Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Its analysis was undertaken using an adapted version of the theoretical framework proposed by Douglas Walton (2008).

 

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Author Biography

  • Fabiano Seixas Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Ceará
    Professor adjunto da Universidade Federal do Ceará. Doutor em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2004). Contato: fbnfnds@gmail.com.

Published

2013-03-27

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Literature

How to Cite

Lucifer’s logic: argumentation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.15467. (2013). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 35(3), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.15467

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