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Provide one example of how Milton favors the concept of hierarchy-everything is subservient except god.

One example of how Milton supports the idea of hierarchy comes in Book 12, when he has Adam criticize Nimrod for challenging the proper order God has established.

In line 272-3, Satan says "Leader of those armies bright, Which but th' Omnipotent none could have foiled." He is suggesting that no one could have defeated his army, except for one and only one: The Almighty god.

Numerous critics have commented on this. Theo Hobson claimed recently in his book on Milton's vision that Miltions aim in his presentation of God was "the total relocation of Kingly authority in God". Clearly if Satan would have rebelled against any other sort of tyrannical leader than Milton himslef would have had sympathies with him, and we as readers more so, however in the context of Christianity and the "creator wise" we are expected to see Satan's actions as heretical and pathetic.

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