Satan from Paradise Lost - Essay Example

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (Peter 5:8) The reason for choosing the attire is to reveal the character of Satan as depicted by Milton in Paradise Lost which is of a war leader heading his followers with rage towards the eternal war. “Yet Craig continued to be obsessed with Hamlet, even as-or perhaps because- he believed it could not be staged. The play was to be repeated, with a difference, over and over again. World War I put an end to these plans; the space was requisitioned for another purpose, and the model stages were dismantled. 35 This left the Kessler Hamlet, the Cranach Press Hamlet, as the only form in which Craig would realize his ideal "production" of the play.

Craig's drawings for Stanislavski included his famous "black figures," cutout characters in dramatic poses, included in photographs as three-dimensional cardboard or wooden miniatures, designed to communicate with the actors for the Moscow Hamlet. 36 Intrigued by the black figures, which looked uncannily like woodcuts, Count Harry Kessler, who had long been his patron and promoter in Germany, proposed that Craig might illustrate something for the Cranach Press: perhaps Antony and Cleopatra, or Milton's Comus. To which Craig is said to have replied that they might as well do Hamlet.” (Easton, L.M.)

The birthday present for Milton will be the DVD of a movie titled The Devil’s Advocate (1997) and the reason for the chosen present is the relevance of this movie with that of Milton’s epic ‘Paradise Lost’.