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Mankind's Destruction By Frans Francken The Younger

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The painting “Mankind’s Destruction” by Frans Francken the Younger is depicted as having a heaven in the clouds, a middle world and then hell underground. When looking at the painting, I recognized the horned creature sitting in the middle of hell as being Satan. The reason I picked this painting was because Book 1 and 9 of the poem “Paradise lost” by John Milton, revolved around the idea that Satan, a previous angel that was thrown out of heaven by God, sets his sights on the destruction of God and anything he created because Satan has an unwavering hate for God. Milton expresses Satan’s motives for tricking Eve into eating the forbidden fruit off the tree that God forbidden Eve and Adam from eating from as a way to defy God, and to destroy

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