LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Satan in ’Paradise Lost’
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Stain in ’Paradise Regained’
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Adam in ’Paradise Lost’
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Adam in ’Paradise Regained’
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both Satans despise servitude; while Milton’s Satan may have tolerated being God’s inferior, he cannot countenance being third in line. As Satan famously declares in Paradise Lost: “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” (1.263).
Detailed explanation-2: -Allan Wright in his ground breaking book, Better to Reign in Hell, Than Serve In Heaven: Satan’s Transition From a Heavenly Council Member to the Ruler of Pandaemonium, diverges from this common assumption and challenges often taken for granted views about the role of Satan in early Christian groups.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
Detailed explanation-4: -Here at least We shall be free: th’Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
Detailed explanation-5: -Quote by John Milton: “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”