"as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the daemons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire." (73)
Pandaemonium is the capital of Hell in the poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton. It was published in 1667 in a series of ten books. In the poem the daemons are trapped in the lake of fire that produces darkness instead of light. God condemned them to the lake, but then sets them free and Satan and the daemons construct Pandaemonium. This place is their Heaven in Hell, after being trapped by God. The monster compares the woods he had lived in to the lake of fire because he was so miserable there. When he finds the little hut it is his Heaven in the Hell he is still living in.
~"Summary" Yahoo Education. August 26, 2008. <http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/paradise_lost/11.html>
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