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''Paradise Lost'' has had a profound impact on writers, artists and illustrators, and, in the twentieth century, filmmakers. ==In Literature== *In addition to printing an illustrated edition of the poem,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Illustrations to Milton's "Paradise Lost" )〕 much of the mystic poetry of William Blake is a direct response to or rewriting of ''Paradise Lost''. Blake emphasized the rebellious, satanic elements of the epic; the repressive character Urizen in the ''Four Zoas'' is a tyrannical version of Milton's God. In addition to his famous quip in ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' about Milton belonging to the devil's party, Blake wrote ''Milton: a Poem'' which has Milton, like Satan, rejecting a life in Heaven. *''Paradise Lost'' influenced Mary Shelley when she wrote her novel ''Frankenstein'', in the 1810s; she included a quotation from book X on the title page, and it is one of three books Frankenstein's monster finds which influences his psychological growth. *Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley specifically notes in the preface to his lyrical drama ''Prometheus Unbound'' that he constructed his character Prometheus in part as an attempt to revise Milton's Satan. *In his controversial novel, ''The Satanic Verses'', Salman Rushdie adapts major motifs and plot elements from ''Paradise Lost'', such as a "fall" and subsequent transformation. *The epic was also one of the prime inspirations for Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels ''His Dark Materials'' (itself a quotation from Book II of ''Paradise Lost''). In Pullman's introduction, he modifies Blake's line to quip that he himself "is of the Devil's party and ''does'' know it." *Libba Bray uses a quote from ''Paradise Lost'' to name the second book of her trilogy, ''Rebel Angels'' quoting from it "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n." *In his ''Sandman'' comics/graphic novels series, Neil Gaiman uses Lucifer as a character, most notably in the ''Season of Mists'' arc/collection, and makes reference to the poem, having Lucifer openly quote Milton. *In 1994, American author Joseph Lanzara wrote ''Paradise Lost: The Novel'' based upon the epic poem. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paradise Lost in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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