“But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut: here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the daemons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.” (Shelley 58).
This reference to Pandaemonium and the daemons comes from “Paradise Lost” by John Milton. After these daemons, as the monster has said, have suffered in the “lake of fire,” they build Pandaemonium, the capital of hell, in an hour. It is a heavenly sanctuary to them after their sufferings, just as this hut is to the monster after having been alone in the wilderness for so long. (http://www.answers.com/topic/paradise-lost) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost)
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