Throughout the poem Satan talks about Hell as a terrible, awful, bad place compared to Heaven. He keeps talking about "how far we've fallen" and how its such a shame that they're not in Heaven anymore. I don't understand how Satan can be happy with what he has done if he keeps complaining about his situation. I figured that because Satan is so evil that he would consider what we consider bad to be good. But strangely my opinion of Hell seems to be his opinion: bad.
Satan and his demons are aware that what they are doing is evil, they even call it evil. I would have thought that evil would become good and good would become evil.
I think Coach Crook, you said something about Hell not being the opposite of Heaven but an inverse of it? Is this what that means? Or is this just Satan knowing what is evil and liking it? Or if not liking it, at least tolerating it.
Maybe he's just bitter?
ReplyDeleteCan he be blinded, made stubborn by what Shakespeare calls in Macbeth, "vaulting ambition"?
ReplyDeleteI thought he was glad to be in Hell in some ways because he no longer has to follow God's rule and pretend to praise him. Isn't that why he claimed it's "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"?
ReplyDelete