Darkness Visible Podcast
1) Paradise Lost - An Interview with Dr. Kate McPherson
Wrapping up Paradise Lost is tough to do on your own. So I got a little help from a friend. Dr. Kate McPherson is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University, and Director of the Honors Program. ...Show More
2) Redemption
In the final episode of Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve confront the full weight of their disobedience. Despair gives way to reconciliation in this bittersweet denouement of Milton's epic. [Trigger warnin...Show More
3) Punishment
“God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.” In this episode, the aftermath of...Show More
4) Lost
Would you be willing to die for the one you love? In this episode, students will begin to see the negative consequences of “Man’s first disobedience.”
5) Forbidden Fruit
Why is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil even in this garden in the first place? In this crucial episode, students will be asked to carefully evaluate the deceptive rhetoric of the story’s an...Show More
6) Eden Exposed
Would you be happy, living with the knowledge that an enemy hell-bent on your destruction was watching your every move? In this episode, major themes and conflicts in the epic begin to converge in an ...Show More
7) Why?
Eve gets all the credit for being the curious one. Maybe that's because most people skip Books V-VIII. In this episode, students will attend to the details of plot, character development, and structur...Show More
8) Paradise
Book IV of Paradise Lost continues with a stunning introduction to Adam and Eve. Quirks and questions abound in this strange but endearing moment of Milton's epic poem. Students are asked to consider ...Show More
9) Be Thou My Good
What would you be willing to give up for the greater good? In this episode, students are asked to consider how a single line of text can be read with deeply contrasting interpretations. The implicatio...Show More
10) All One
Let's untangle the most profound religious and philosophical knots in the universe. Blindfolded. This episode reorients the reader to the perspective of the protagonists as they consider how to respon...Show More