Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within
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Milton's Satan continues to fascinate critics largely because he is so
complex than the Devil of the Christian tradition appears. Satan's
rebelliousness, his seeking of transcendence, his capacity for action,
particularly unconventional action, endeared him to certain types of minds,
even if their ....
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.... mind to grasp. Milton
simplifies the matter by making spiritual intelligences more highly refined
versions of human intelligence. He is still left with one problem, that of
introducing a flaws in this refined beings. Because of these refined
intelligence, these creatures should incline solely to good.
"So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,
Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good;"
(IV, 109-111)
In this intensely dramatic statement, Satan renounces ....
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