The motive of the fall in the poem by J. Milton “Paradise Lost” and in the piece of D. G. Byron “Cain, a Mystery”

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2021. Volume 6. No. 4. pp. 288-294.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33184/dokbsu-2021.4.11

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The author’s task is to explain the fundamental differences in the interpretation of the motive for the Fall in Paradise Lost by J. Milton and Cain by D. G. Byron. It is concluded that Milton’s poem is an artistic illustration for one of the key episodes of the Book of Genesis and therefore does not contain contradictions with the doctrine of the Fall. At the same time, Byron created a romantic myth based on the biblical legend of the Fall, within which the poet, from the standpoint of an emancipated mind, spoke out against all forms of spiritual oppression of the individual.