Milton's Paradise Lost

In MiltonÆs Paradise Lost we see a variety of different portrayals of Satan from his fall from Heaven to his rise as the supreme adversary of God. In Book I Satan is portrayed as full of energy and almost heroic in his status as an underdog fighting against the forces of the universe. He is not yet the jealous and hateful Satan we will see later in the work. He is more forlorn and in pain, but he remains energetic and revengeful, ôSo spake thÆ apostate angel, though in pain, / Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despairö (Milton 1979, 1415). Satan laments the fact that God must be ôalmightyö because ôno less / Than such could have oÆerpowered such forceö (Milton 1979, 1416). Therefore, in Book I we see Satan as a rather energized, vengeful and wounded warrior. This is a far cry from

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