states the boldest possible intention: he plans to "justifie the ways of God to men". So it is hardly surprising that his theodicy has undergone disproportionate scrutiny by his readers. There are two hostile positions to take on it. One, that it's a piece of poetical trespassing on divine ground, a hubris that fails and deserves to fail. Two, that whether he intends to or not his argument indicts God as careless and cruel. Sometimes these positions are combined.from The Guardian: John Milton, part 3: does Paradise Lost really attempt to justify God's ways?
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