Best know for his epic poem Paradise Lost, famous author John Milton once said:
“The mind is its
own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”
Analyze Milton’s
quote and discuss its meaning in your own opinion. Use an example from History, Literature,
Science, Film or your own experience to show how this quote can apply to the
life.
Your initial response should be 250 words and is due
Thursday and your student response is due Sunday night.
Best known for his epic poem, Paradise Lost, famous author John Milton once said: "The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." This quote to me can mean too many different things. I guess the meaning that stands out the most to me would be how powerful the human brain can be. The human brain can make you sick, see things, hear things, make you hungry, make you completely full even though you didn't swallow any food, etc. Brains are the most powerful thing in this world to me. To see what level people around you are on in their brain is amazing. Watching the brain absorb education and things around you is unbelievable. The coolest thing about brains has got to be how Autistic children use a totally different side of their brain then the normal everyday person does. I grew up with my neighbor Alex. Alex had autism and he learned to adapt to his disability so well, he skipped two grades in his school. He went on to have so many college opportunities and scholarships for his intelligence and how he could play the drums like Dave Grohl. Depending on how that child develops with that side of the brain, they can be a bit slower or intelligent beyond belief. I believe it is truly amazing learning about mental disabilities and how that person has learned to adapt to life with their disability. The brain is the most powerful thing in this world.
ReplyDeleteKristi I couldn't agree with you more. The mind is amazing even if you face a disability such as your neighbor Alex. It's great to know he got so far in life.
DeleteThe brain is the most powerful thing in the world. The fact that your neighbor Alex conquered his illness and went beonded normal education. By skipping 2 grades he should what the brain is capable and what its abilities are.
Deletei agree with you when you say that the brain is he most powerful thing in the world. It is amazing, the abilities that it has.
DeleteThe quote " The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven" by Milton means to that when ever we experience good things in life , is the real "heaven". Whatever sorrows and distress you may face can be like hell. Our minds depend greatly on our life. What we dwell on can affect our actions and attitudes. If a person thinks positive thoughts in spite of the difficulties that person will experience heavenly feelings. Some people who have a lot of money and think negatively all the time that can make them feel like they are living in hell. A happy mind makes life seem like heaven. But an unhappy one can make there surroundings seem as hell.
ReplyDeleteI think Bethany is right, that heaven is your good side of things and hell can be your bad side. It is how you yourself deal with things.
DeleteThe quote "The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” kind of mind boggled me at first. But now I think I relise what it means. I believe this quote means that your mind is your worst enemy. Your mind can change your outlook on something weather it is good or bad. It makes you wonder or worry. It can make bad times seem good and good times seem bad. I think that's what the author ment by "can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." For example, one of my friends and I got into a fight. He did something that made him think we couldn't be friends anymore. He wasn't thinking logically. We talked it over and it wasn't going well. The next day I asked him to come over so we can talk to each other face to face and settle this. He agreed to it. That whole day my mind let me believe it was going to be so awkward when he came over. I worried myself so much! Turns out it wasn't awkward, we talked things over and everything was fine. We went back to just how we were. But you see how my mind made me think because something was wrong it would be awkward between us. Your mind makes you think crazy things sometimes. Sometimes it may be right but a lot of time your just over thinking things. Your mind is a very powerful thing and it just likes playing games with you!
ReplyDeleteI totally understand what your trying to say. Your mind is such a powerful thing. You did a great job at explaining the quote and I totally agree with everything you said.
Deletei agree with you! your mind is so powerful that it can make you do crazy stuff
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DeleteJohn Milton’s quote “the mind is its own place and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven” is something many people could benefit from living by. Mr. Milton spoke nothing but the truth in stating his well known quote. In my opinion he is saying that a mind is only yours and you make what you can with it. Whether it is a good idea, or a bad choice to be made. He is just trying to tell people to use their minds and remember it is only their mind. Your mind is the most powerful thing you will ever encounter. Your mind is in its own place, that no one but you can touch. Your mind can bring about good ideas, which can turn great or bad ideas that can get even worse.
ReplyDeleteA good example of this quote is Hitler. His mind was a dark place that turned into a living hell. He had some brilliant ideas in the beginning before his demons overcame him. He made many people suffer. His ideas that in his twisted mind seemed good and as Mr. Milton refer to it, Heaven were an entire races living Hell. In no way is what Hitler did a good thing. He is just a person whose mind had truly faced Heaven and Hell.
Many people have their minds locked away because they don’t know what they will think of. They are scared to think something good and have it turn bad as Hitler did. Its time for us to free our minds and use them as the powerful tools they truly are.
I agree with you Chloe, your mind is the most powerful thing you will ever encounter! Everything you said was very well said
DeleteThe quote "The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” means to me that when you over think things for yourself or be making a great decision. For example, when they say you can make a heaven of hell that’s basically in my opinion a way of saying you have to be greedy once in awhile. If your happiness isn't going to happen cause somebody else's opinion gets in the way, why should it matter. I used to believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt , but after getting the sour part of the deal so many times you start to lose faith. I wouldn't want to be the baggage on everybody's shoulders. Also, to have this solitude of my mind not have to think twice about something I strongly believe in cause of the people around me, it's just obnoxious. Why should I have to wait to be happy until I'm old enough to leave or be out of the house , but then live with the guilt of how they feel. Then on the other hand I know that your opinion will never change. So then I think about the part of the quote "Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven".
ReplyDeletefor one, don't ever think your just "baggage on everybody's shoulders" because your not. And i agree with you about you need to do what makes you happy. You shouldn't wait for someone else to make the decision for you.
DeleteYou hve a very independent approach to the quote. It's very interesting the way you interpret the given quote, you should go your own way to find your own happiness, without people getting in your way.
DeleteA mind is a complex thing, It helps us understand things around us and figures things out. The quote from this book talks about how a human mind can make out "A hell out of heaven and a heaven out of hell". Meaning that what you think your heaven might be then to another person. You could have a bad place for hell and good place for heaven. But everyone has their own ideas of it.
ReplyDeleteMany people believe the mind is simple, something easy to read you only use to think with. That is definatly not the case, the mind is so much more complicated than we can imagine. It's even said that we only use ten persent of our brain. The mind can play tricks, see things that aren't their, remember the simplest of details, even solve complicated problems. The mind is an important part of anyones life, without it we would be animals acting on instinct. John Milton author of the quote "The mind is it's own place and in itself, can make a Haven of Hell, a Hell of Hevan" is based on how people see the world. Everyone's mind is unique and different with likes and dislikes that shape a persons personality. The quote means with a persons imagenation they can come up with any scenario mahing Hell seem like Hevan or Hevan into Hell. I myself am a very imaginative person who thinks of several different things at once either about real life, make believe, or both. I can be in the most boring place on earth and come up with something to do to make it more entertaining to pass the time, But that also works both ways. something totally normal and fun could seem boring or torture to the person it's happening to. I remember as a kid I always came up with games to play that weren't the normal tag or video games and we all hade a blast. It all really matters on opinion.
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This quote by John Milton Really explains my life but also explains another excellent poet/writer, Edgar Allan Poe. To how it explains in my life is that the mind is very complex, and one of the most mysterious things in the world and even scientist are even more baffaled by its wonders every day. This quote goes to my life because I always like to think very calm and even before I sleep but when I think of one bad thing, nightmarish things happen. Dont ask my why this happens but thats how my mind works. Or even when I fell asleep one night, I woke up and as I look across into my aunts kitchen I see this very scary, human like figure. I don't know what it was and still dont know what it is to this day but my mind might of been playing tricks to scare me. Now to go into Poe's life, his life has been filled with sorrow and missery and his mind was very unstable. His mind obviously was corrupted and turned his life into a "hell" in his life, everyone either abandoned him or died. The mind, like I said in the beginning, is very complex and hard to understand and Poe's mind was one of the most complex. The mind can make us think we are in love when really its lust. Our mind can make us feel good but really in pain. In regular terms of what the quote says, the mind make you think you are in a good place but you are really in a bad one. Never think you can be happy, never hide your feelings cuz really your mind knows what you do and feel.
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” -The human brain is an amazing mystery that is still stump scientists in their tracks in the understanding of the human mind. It's process of producing thoughts that not only involuntarily control your nervous system, it basically controls your emotions, feelings, is a wonder of the world. It's the main hub of the human body, A control system that is so difficult to figure out the we only use 5% of our brain capacity throughout our lifetime.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their own special mind, Their own personality, routines, emotional expression, all that jazz. For a person to make their mind a hell of heaven is to react to different subject matters in the world with their own process. In the Film "God Bless America", there is a character who's life is down in the dumps. He lost his job, his wife and daughter left him and ignore him, and he cannot get over how modern society has no shame anymore. That everyone in America has no sense of intelligence. This is portrayed in the film with specific events and characters Like all of new media making fun of a Reality show singing contest singer who had a terrible voice, or our main character's daughter not wanting to see him because of her obsession over cell phones and getting gifts over spending time with her father. These events stir up the main character's mind, and his emotions become anger, and he retaliates. After hearing he has a brain tumor and may die soon, he wishes to spednd his last days shooting off the shameless, unitelleigent inhabitants of the Ameican Society. This emotional die of retaliation could be his own actions making his mind a hell of heaven.
I like your response to the quote and understand where you're coming from. The brain is an amazing thing mostly because we're still trying to discover most of it.
Delete“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” I believe this quote is trying to say that your own person and that you think different from everyone. Even though when you are talking to your friend and you say oh yeah I was thinking the same thing I believe it's unture. When it says it can make heaven hell and hell heaven I believe it means that when you are having a bad day you can think of positive things to make you happy. For example the movie Precious she was abused and just treated wrong by her own mother but she would always have visions about her dancing with her love and she would just think about it to get all the negativity off of her mind. She was in her own little world and she loved it!
ReplyDelete“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”. This quote could be taken for many different ways, but to me it is meant to show the amazing things a human, or any brain can do. The brain is a unique tool that can be used for many things. The brain is very intelligent and can do many different things. It thinks, and controls everything in your body basically by itself. It controls your body,and helps you live. It holds all of your memories. The memories, and things that your brain can hole make your life what it is. It can make the hard times better, or good times worse depending on what your brain lets you think about at that very moment. The brain is a powerful and amazing tool that does so much.
ReplyDeleteThe mind is its own place and self, can make a heaven of hell, hell of heaven. This quote means a lot to me and life around me. The mind is a crazy thing that can change in a blink of an eye. It changes drastically all the time. For instance when something bad happens and I think of the worst out come my mind is making a hell of its self, when everything is going to be fine. Also when I think everything is ok and its not my mind is a heaven that should be a hell.
ReplyDeleteThis applies to a lot of people such as famous people like Edgar Allen Poe. His mind is a mixture of a hell and a heaven, or heaven or a hell. For example, in the tell tail heart his mind tells him he is ok then it changes to a hell when the cops are their and he is compromised. It just shows how it affects all types of people.
The quote, “The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” written by Milton is genius. I believe this quote means that the mind is always thinking, if something good happened the mind can think of something awful out of that situation. If something terrible happened, the mind can make something good out of that situation. I can relate to this quote because I am always thinking and analyzing things over and over again. For example if one of my friends says they can't hangout with me this weekend I think of every possible thing that I did wrong for them to not hangout with me, I'm making heaven of hell. Another example is if me and someone stop dating, I may think of every reason why it is good that we broke up and make hell of heaven! I really love this quote and explains the mind exactly. When I'm thinking I always put myself in bad moods because I'm making a situation that is like heaven, into hell.
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