![]() He meets Sin and Death while disguised as an angel.Eventually, he persuades Eve to eat the Forbidden Fruit by claiming it has wondrous powers. He finds him, and enters through his mouth.He enters the garden through a river, and searches all night for the serpent. He returns, fearless, to Eden after nightfall.He and his minions throw themselves out of the gates of Heaven down to Hell.The next day he uses his canons, but is eventually defeated.He calls a council during the night and describes his plan to build a canon.He fights with Michael and is badly wounded he recovers immediately, but his minions cart him off the field anyway.He descends from his chariot to the battle field and argues with Abdiel before the battle begins.It's an attempt to impose restraints on liberty. ![]() He tells the assembled angels that this whole business about the Son is a joke.He wakes up his first in command and tells him to get the squadrons ready in the north.Satan sees God's Son appointed lord (narrated in Book 5 of the poem but this happened chronologically earlier than everything else) and gets really angry.He's taken before Gabriel they argue for a while, before Satan flees, realizing he doesn't stand a chance in a fight.Ithuriel and Zephon discover him in the shape of a toad, whispering poisonous thoughts into Eve's ear.He jumps down, changes his shape into a lion, then a tiger then he listens to Adam and Eve conversing, before he resolves to trick them into a desire for knowledge.He lands on the top of the Tree of Life and observes Paradise, including Adam and Eve. He approaches Paradise and leaps over the wall, like a wolf.Niphates, near Paradise, and delivers a soliloquy. ![]() He peers into the universe before flying towards the sun, where he changes his shape and tricks Uriel into showing him the way to Paradise.He approaches Heaven and sees the universe hanging by a golden chain from Heaven.He arrives at Chaos' throne and asks for directions to Heaven and earth.After a conversation with Sin, she lets him through the gates he travels through Chaos – it's really hard-going.He leaves Pandemonium, and heads towards the gates of Hell, where he meets his son, Death, and his daughter/wife Sin.He speaks last, saying he will risk his own life and venture to earth to see what he can do to fight god there.He addresses a council of his peers in Pandemonium, saying they must debate the best way to war against Heaven.All is not lost, he tells them there is still hope. His legions march close towards him, and he gives another speech.He gives a rousing speech to his angels, and demands that his flag be unfurled.Satan calls his legions from the burning lake the most senior fallen angels assemble before him.Satan moves off the lake towards a burning plain.He sees his first mate Beelzebub, and they have a conversation where Satan talks about his strong will and sense of pride.Satan wakes up on a burning lake, and looks around bewildered.Moreover, my thesis constructs a conceptual understanding of Satan, Milton's prominent character, and analyzes Satan's depiction in each epic as they are contingent upon each other. Milton redefines his first presentation of a hero as he realizes what he was capable of in Paradise Lost and how he must correct his mistakes for the sake of the reader in Paradise Regained. In realizing his error in depicting Satan as heroic, Milton furthers the correction of his error, that being his temptation of the reader to fall with mankind, in Paradise Regained by exceeding the role of the Son of God. ![]() Satan is no longer depicted as a tragic hero, but is portrayed as an entirely malicious being who has no sign of ever having regretted his actions or sentiments. ![]() Moving onto Milton's second epic, Paradise Regained (1671), presents a new problem for the reader as the Satan that he became close to in Paradise Lost is non-existent. Embodying the classification of tragic hero, Satan has both made an error in judgment and was overcome by a tragic flaw that brought about a devastating calamity. Although deplorable and malevolent, the Satan of Paradise Lost appeals to the reader, and his actions and thoughts are easily agreed upon. AbstractOne of the most imposing themes of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) is the depiction of Satan as heroic. ![]()
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