As I was reading Paradise Lost, I was extremely surprised by how Satan is portrayed. (I know I'm not the only one). The way Milton portrays Satan as a hero in the first two books was really different from any way I've ever heard before, but things started to make more sense as the viewpoint changed. One thing I had to remember while reading is that heroes don't have bad intentions. We can't view Satan as a heroic character because his intentions were never for anyone's good. From his fall from Heaven to present day he has only ever been concerned with his own glorification. The way Milton writes in the first two books makes Satan seem like a good guy, but we have to remember that the hero in the story never has evil intentions.
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This is a dilemma that has been repeated time and again in fiction. I'm a Class-A geek, so the one example that comes to mind is Handsome Jack from the video game Borderlands 2. Like Paradise Lost's Satan, he thinks he has good intentions, but destroying a species is never excusable.
ReplyDeleteThis is a dilemma that has been repeated time and again in fiction. I'm a Class-A geek, so the one example that comes to mind is Handsome Jack from the video game Borderlands 2. Like Paradise Lost's Satan, he thinks he has good intentions, but destroying a species is never excusable.
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