daaspots.blogg.se - Paradise lost book 4

Satan therefore resolves on evil because he has no hope or fear: "Evil be thou my Good," he says.Satan says God will never forgive him because he knows that if he (Satan) were allowed to re-enter Heaven, he would eventually try to overthrow God again.His despair is only getting worse: "Which way I fly is Hell my self am Hell" (4.75). He didn't want to remain in a state of "subjection" to God, he says.

But he was already so close to the top, he couldn't resist trying to go all the way, trying to defeat God.

He tells him he hates his beams because they remind him of what he once was.

He can never really escape from Hell, because the true Hell is within him. Satan is angry about losing the battle in Heaven, and he plans to take his anger out on mankind.The narrator interjects, saying he wishes it had been possible for mankind to have been warned of Satan's plans so they could have avoided succumbing to temptation.