Satan

Satan, who is seen throughout the epic as the main antagonist of John Milton’s, “Paradise Lost,”because of his nagging attempts of deception in the Garden which are successful more times than not. Satan’s use of disguise is brilliant by captivating Eve’s Curiosity through his knowledge of Eve’s ignorance. Satan also deceives Eve by constantly lying and making Eve conclude that eating from the Tree of Knowledge will deliver her full knowledge of good and evil and her senses. Through Satan’s…

imagery is used in music videos. It is used on the cover of albums to sell albums for song artists. It has the appearance of evil with images of blood, Satan and skulls. Some rappers use devil horns. A few use the symbol 666 or an upside down cross to promote their agenda. Top artists are turning to satanic usage, as if performing with Satan. Performer Nicki Minaj performed an exorcism onstage. Welch and Epworth state “And now all your love will be exorcised.” Exorcise is to drive out or…

that those who do not sin and worship his Father may go to heaven. God sent down Jesus to tell his followers to follow Him and Jesus because then they may go to heaven.Why is it that Satan is viewed as when he has done nothing wrong? Is he a fall guy? Why do we look down on Satan when he hasn’t killed anyone? Satan only gave Adam and Eve an apple. The bible tells us that God is the all divine, all almighty superior being that humans must worship and then humans will enter heaven if they do so…

over nothing more than a wasteland. In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, such is the case of Satan, a former subject of the Lord fallen from his grace. God banishes the angel to Hell, where Satan, left to ponder the quality of his newfound life, slowly accepts his fate and addresses the presumed advantage of being free from the clutches of God, whose ultimate authority he despises greatly. Satan wonders about his own power, thinking about the things he would do differently from God in a…

he does not belong. The book portrays jealousy from Satan since Adam and Eve live royally in Paradise. Because Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to eat from the tree of knowledge as Satan continues to disturb God’s work. Like a prison, hell is seen as a factory full of ungrateful and menacing angels consuming confinement as if they were hungry like piranhas in a…

draw the reader in and give them a better idea of what is going on. One such image found early on in the book of Job is when Satan or the Adversary says to the LORD " Have you not hedged him about and his household and all that he has all around. The words hedged him about is another way of saying a common term such as fenced in, guarded or protected. That sentence used by Satan gives us the image of a hedge around Job and all that is his. This shows us that even the enemy knows that Job is…

occur in darkness or during the night. Satan plots to trick Adam and Eve into sinning in the darkness. In Book 2, during the important discussion in Hell as to whether the fall angels will attempt to fight God, despite having lost the first battle that caused their exile from Heaven. Beelzebub, one of the fallen angels in Hell, remarks to Satan, “Advise if this be worth/Attempting, or to sit in darkness here/Hatching vain empires” (Book 2 Line 376-378). Satan sits in the darkness devising…

starts with a scene in heaven where Satan comes and challenges God that if he is given permission to inflict pain and punish Job, that Job will turn against God and curse him¬. Satan believes that Job serves God only because he protects him and keeps him safe, that is why he wants God’s permission to punish him and prove that Job will turn against God. From here we can see that the story is going to include a major turn of events because God agrees with Satan, given he doesn’t kill Job in the…

reader into focusing on the gender roles of society. In the passage where Eve is following Satan to the tree of prohibition, the text itself as well as the characters explore different dispositions and create or diffuse individuality. Enjambment and diction show the occupation of the words when independent of one another and their dependence while Eve shows her independence and dependence on Adam and Satan by being “led” by them. The use of simile and symbolism demonstrate…

In works based on the Christian religion God is often portrayed as all-knowing and all-powerful. This is how God is portrayed throughout Paradise Lost, he is always able to stop Satan because he always has a plan. One plan by God that is seen in the text is the creation of humankind. He wants a new species, one with free will, not a creation that will follow God because they are programmed to, but because they believe it is the right thing to do. However, God seems upset at some of mankind’s…