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Why do people think Lucifer is the epic hero when it's clearly the Son?

>> No.15235766
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15235766

bafed

>> No.15235767

Lucy got more screen time, and his philosophy is unironically more digestable for the modern man
In the end he's a retard though

>> No.15235893

>>15235767
Aren't most of earth's current lineages retards?
>stop beating that dead high horse of yours.

>> No.15236711

>>15235732
Once you remove Lucifer from the context of religious worship and consider him purely as a mythological character and symbol, then turning him in the archetypical rebel, fighting the good fight against vast, unknowable and unbeatable forces it's pretty natural.
It's not fundamentally different from how our own society engages classical mythology.

>> No.15236740

>>15235732
Fo...bafed...

>> No.15236742

>>15235732
Because the first two books get spammed relentlessly in lit survey classes and most of the students are getting that through classroom osmosis rather than reading.

>> No.15236772

Lucifer is meant to be the most cool and appealing character — the devil must be tempting after all, that’s what he does, he has to tempt the reader

>> No.15236786

>>15236772
>the devil must be tempting after all, that’s what he does, he has to tempt the reader
I have read this exact statement a hundred tines before, who did you plagerise

>> No.15236799

>>15236786
Go read Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin.