ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Satan ignores his close run with repentance and once again says that it is natural to become better. He feels that because God created him with such a nature, that to be punished is wrong. He cannot help what he is. These thoughts lead to Satan projecting his own tyranny on God.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” “Solitude sometimes is best society.” “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”

Detailed explanation-3: -In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton illustrates Satan specifically as a tragic hero, which is most evident during a scene in which he is surveying his defeated army of revolutionaries (lines 587-621).

Detailed explanation-4: -Satan, as God himself, has followers who are entities, but in Milton’s Paradise Lost they are recognized as evil entities, prepared to do anything in order to be accepted in Satan’s Pandemonium. These followers are the fallen angels who have established their own religions, now known as pagan religions.