After completing John Milton’s Paradise Lost, our high school humanities class turned to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. The two books appear very different. One describes a war in Heaven and humanity’s expulsion from Eden, the other follows a shipwrecked sailor learning to grow grain, make pottery, domesticate goats, and survive on an island. Yet both […]
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Milton’s difficult seventeenth-century poem imagines Satan’s rebellion, the creation of the world, the temptation of Adam and Eve, humanity’s fall, and the promise of redemption. Some of our best conversations began with a simple question: If Satan cannot defeat God, what can he do? Milton’s answer is that Satan attacks what God loves. He cannot […]
Ancient texts persist because they speak honestly about fear, failure, ambition, and hope. By placing The Iliad at the bedside of anxious students, Cornerstone’s humanities program reminds them that they are not the first young people to live under the weight of expectation or to seek rest amid disappointment.