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Assignment Topic
Character of Satan in paradise
Name –Bhatt Dhara Janakkumar
Roll No -06 MA-1
Year-2010-11
Submitted To–JaySir
Character of Satan in paradise
Preface
The controversy about Milton’s Satan provides an opportunity in inspect the relationship between a literary text and critical reaction to it. This is instructive because it shows how literature works or has worked and how it should not be expected to work.
A word first, about the generation of Milton’s Satan .There is very in the bible about Satan. It amounts to little more than that Satan is various titles. As kastor has shown, it was not until about A1) 200 that official Judaism began to absorb popular of Satan scores of literary Satan’s evolved, and some of them notably those created by Du Bart’s influenced by Milton. However, no convincing single source for Milton’s Satan has been found.
Milton’s complex Satan in paradise Lost
Milton’s Satan continues to fascinate critics largely because he is complex than the devil of the Christian tradition appears. Satan’s rebelliousness, his seeking of transcendence , his to certain particularly unconventional action, endeared him to certain types of minds, even if their viewpoint might be considered theologically misleading.
Milton’s often follow the road of intellectual definition for his character, of reasoning demonstration .This serves well his theological and intellectual cohesiveness.
However, when his thought become more conceptual rather than metaphoric, it falls trap to its own special kind of static imprisonment.
Most of the images in Paradise Lost, however, have a substantial life of their own ; they are properties rather than metaphors. In the presentation of Satan, Milton is dealing with a special difficulty.
He is not presenting a human intelligence, but angelic one a being the nature of which is almost impossible for the human mind to grasp.
Milton simplifies the matters by making spiritual, Intelligence, that of introducing a flaws in this refined. Because of these refined intelligence, these creature should incline solely to good.
“So farwel hope, and with farwel fear,
Farwel remove; all good to me is lost ;
Evil be thou my Good !”
(6 , 109-111)
Makes no sense on the surface, it has a symbolic meaning an expression of Satan’s will to rejects the hierarchy of value set before him .In doing so he creates an illusion world that reflects his adopted value , which he accepts as reality . His reality is based on hatred .
His hatred makes him psychologically dependent on that he hates , thus making it all the greater .Throughout the epic Milton dramatizes the hatred that gives them their energy is based on that reality are bent on rejecting .
If Milton’s portrait of God does not display sufficient inspiration or detail does not follow that Milton regarded Satan as the hero. The artist projects something of himself in his crating “empathy” towards him/ her .
Moral approval will life is rather that in emotion .The meaning of good and evil must be reexamined by every generation reside and function reasonable well on a popular level ,there words seldom provide enough cohesive to be analyzed in depth.
The solution at any might a dilemma .one cannot help but feel that the fall of Satan was brought above by an intellectually interesting temptation.
Socrates believed that ignorance led to subversion,
But Satan’s curiosity and to certain extent jealousy came about as a result of God’s infinite and omnipotent being.
Surely one must feel horror at a god who deliberately reduced Satan to such condition.
God’s retaliation turning the rebels into snakes and then continuing to work upon mankind is an obvious to which Milton adheres represents the Fall as a lack as a lack of knowledge ,ignorance But if Adam and Eve (and Satan in his time ) had no foreknowledge of evil since God’s creation was void of it how were they to know and discern.
Therefore how innocent is Milton God .He should be able to foresee any contingency , including that any contingency including that of evil. A theological conundrum remain for is to blame God . Theological and character discussions of this caliber cannot be resolved or even postulated in a few paragraphs way to the original intent for creations life . Milton , however brought us a step closer creating a vast array of images and concepts that help our and give human face to the great conflict
“But he that hides a dark and foul thoughts ,
Benighted , walks under the middy sun”
Interpretation of God and Satan in Paradies Lost
In John Milton’s paradise Lost ,he tells of Satan’s banishment from Heaven .He and his brigade God and are now doomed to billow in the fiery pits of hell.
The relation between Satan’s qualities and reader more about why they seem to go hand in hand in hand . without Satan’s features and Hell’s tormenting aspects the place would not be all it is.
Milton states that one will “dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire”. Hell has no light, but rather darkness served only to discover sight of woe.
“It is a region of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can dwell, hope never comes…. But torture without end urges.”
Satan, know in heaven as Lucifer, was god’s first hand man and steadfast angel. His disloyalty God to God was agonizing and serve. Therefore in spite of Satan’s actions. God has donned him to this place full of all that he has refused and given up.
Conclusion
Throughout the epic Milton dramatic this dependence among the devils even the hatred that gives them their energy is based on that reality which they are bent rejecting .If Milton’s portrait of God does not display sufficient inspiration or detail , it still does not follow that Milton regarded Satan as the hero.
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