Noah Winners 2/19/23 Due to my paper being an analysis paper of the representation of the devil, I am turning to one of the most well-known and reputed representations of the devil, Milton’s Paradise Lost.. This epic poem was written in England in the 1660’s, and its intended purpose was that of providing a critique on many different things in society at the time, not least of all being the church. The poem was meant for a public audience and is inherently biased because of its nature as a societal critique and representation of the devil.