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12176530 No.12176530 [Reply] [Original]

How come Milton made this character so relatable? Was he aware? Or is my view warped by modern values?

>> No.12176585

>>12176530
I’m glad you asked. He made Satan a fully actualized and brilliant version of who we all are when we do not actively combat our pride and submit to God.

>> No.12176601

>>12176530
He had a bit more freedom with Satan
He could indulge his classical pagan allusions where he was a bit more constrained with God

>> No.12176633

>>12176530
For the last fucking time (once again):
Lucifer was meant to seem somewhat appealing in the beginning of Paradise Lost because he had JUST been cast out of heaven, and therefore still bore much of that divine radiance ALONG WITH the outstanding, heavenly charisma that caused so many angels to rebel along with him. He is enticing, he is tragic, he is still somewhat the greatest Archangel.
HOWEVER, as the poem progresses, that radiant eminence fades and Lucifer's corruption becomes more and more complete, his personality more and more earthly (the realm which he is to rule) and he develops into the hideous devil that Humanity came to know him to be.
So his character is a DEVELOPMENT from the vertex to the void.
I guess PEOPLE just don't GET this because they only read the FIRST fucking book (or maybe the first three if they're BADASS intellectuals).

>> No.12176670

>>12176633
I've read it to completion. Yeah i realize that, i was mostly referring to his character at the start, which is the part that usually leaves the greatest impression. He was still enticing during the actual war in heaven though, even though he was driven by jealousy he still felt believable and human.

>> No.12176677

I also find incest relateable

>> No.12176848

>>12176633
bet you haven't even read Paradise Regained baka pleb

>> No.12177254
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12177254

>>12176633
for the FINAL

father FUCKING time

SAY IT LOUDER

>> No.12178451

Correction to my other thread on translations
It's possible that I thought that the old English translation of genesis was a part of paradise lost - I'm sorry.

>> No.12179907

>>12176601
This. It turns out, it's really hard to write the script of a transcendent, all-knowing being without sounding too narrow and rigid. He did perhaps the best he could. Satan is an easy character to write because he is the embodiment of our basest sin: pride. Of course we can relate to it, because it's the very sin at the heart of the fall of man.

>> No.12179938

>>12176530
He was of the devil's party, without knowing it