Character of Satan in Paradise Lost

Character of Satan in Paradise Lost

1. Name: Joshi Tejasvi A Roll no :24 Enrollment No : PG 15101024 Paper No : 01 The Renaissance Literature Presentation Topic : Character of Satan in Paradise Lost Submitted to : MK Bhavnagar University Department of English

2. Introduction: Satan is hate stronger under show of love character. Satan is driven by motivation to take revenge and he succeeds in doing so by tempting the fall of Adam and Eve. He was envious and full of jealous.

3. Satan is the hero or not of Paradise Lost Satan indeed has many heroic qualities, but they are rooted in evil and sin and his heroic qualities deteriorate rapidly as the plot progresses.

4. Satan is not an epic hero, could he perhaps be a Romantic hero? Romantic heroes have two characteristics which make them distinctive in the heroic tradition. The first characteristic is that feeling and emotions are very important and second is Romantic hero is his Satanism.

5. Satan’s famous soliloquy “O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams/ That bring to my remembrance from what state/ I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere” (Iv. 37-9). Conclusion: It was in this period that Satan became a true hero , even if Milton may not have had this invention when writing Paradise Lost. Satan may not be a Romantic hero originally, but he became a hero in the eyes of the romantics.

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