NEHA D. MEHTA

Roll no. 17

Semester :- M.A. Sem-1

Year:- 2014/15

Topic:- Paradise Lost:- “Satan”

Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad,

Smt. S. B. Gardi

Department of English

M.K. Bhavnagar University,

Bhavnagar.

PARADISE LOST ‘SATAN’

INTRODUCTION:

Romeo and Juliet may be

the last place you would

look for a literary

inspiration for Satan, and I

don’t think it was one for

Milton. But looking at this

famous quote gives as a

number of interesting

ways of thinking about

Satan's character in

Paradise Lost.

Satan used to be one of the most important of God’s angels, but rebelled when God declared the son to be above all the angels in glory.

Satan persuaded a third of the angels to rebel with him, and declared war on God. Satan was defeated by the son and cast into Hell with all the other rebel angels.

The first characteristic is that feelings and emotions are very important to them. This is very apparent in Milton's Satan.

The second characteristic of the romantic hero is

his Satanism. Satanism in the romantic period was

rebellion in the name of individualism, humanism

and self reliance.

Satan is not an epic hero could he perhaps be a

romantic hero.

Romantic heroes have two characteristics.

Feeling of others

Feeling and emotions.

By the end of the 18th centaury, religious beliefs changed and belief in the devil among the higher and more literate classes had nearly disappeared.

Yet romantic authors and painters in England and on the continent where fascinated with myth of Satan.

Conclusion:

So, in this way we can say that Satan became a true hero, even if Milton may not have had this intention when writing Paradise Lost. Satan may not be Romantic Hero originally, but he became a hero in the eyes of the Romantics.

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