Sunday, November 7, 2010

Satan's thoughts

In book four Satan talks about how the sun reminds him of Heaven and then seems to express regret for his rebellion against God saying that praising God was the easiest way to repay his gratitude.  However, his ambition to want to become the highest caused him to only repay God in malice which then led to his downfall.  Also Satan confesses that God is invincible "Till Pride and worse Ambition threw me down/ Warring in Heav'n against Heav'ns matchless King" (4:40-41).  Satan claims that even if he was to submit to God and return to Heaven, he would soon rebel against God again because of  his ambition; however, after this time, Satan claims that he would fall to a different Hell that is even lower and worse than the one he is currently in which I find interesting.  Satan also calls himself Hell which can bring up many questions concerning if God is omnipresent and if Hell is just made by our minds.  At the end of the speech, however, is a particularly intersting part because Satan dismisses (says farewell) to all good and fully adopts evil just like Othello did.

2 comments:

  1. Good. I think you have most of the keep points here. What I'm interested in is your response to Satan at this point

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  2. I was thinking maybe Satan and Othello's "farewell" speeches are them truly accepting their home in hell. It is the moment when the gates of hell truly accept them in.

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