In Book IV starting at line one in Paradise Lost John Milton presents Satan’s feelings on seeing the magnificence of Paradise through a soliloquy. Through the soliloquy Milton shows the most genuine and internal conflicts from the fallen angle of the epic. He uses the soliloquy to demonstrate the devil’s wickedness, motives, as well as his personality. At the beginning of the soliloquy, Satan conveys his suffering as he
Even at the opening of the soliloquy, Satan expresses his anguish and suffering as he gazes upon the bright sun and speaks to it saying, “O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere” (IV.37-9). His power holds a place above the sun physically
Even at the opening of the soliloquy, Satan expresses his anguish and suffering as he gazes upon the bright sun and speaks to it saying, “O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere” (IV.37-9). His power holds a place above the sun physically