English 1022E Lecture Notes - In Medias Res, Fallen Angel, Tyrant
16 Nov 2011
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No man can serve two masters: you cannot serve god and mammon (matthew 6. 24) radix malorum cupiditas est: the love of money/ wealth is the root of all evil. He"s made a series of choices that have taken him further down until he"s now at the limit of alienation. He does not change throughout the poem. He may seem to, but he is always inside the same thoroughly evil figure. He needs to make satan a credible leader of. Without him being so persuasive and attractive he wouldn"t be believable. of the angels that are rebelling against. First big speech he has at l. 84 of book 1: There is disordered quality in the syntax of his speech, ungrammatical. L. 94 we learn 5 things about satan: He always is in the same mood, the same mindset. He takes his grudge forward and uses it for his motivation for destroying adam and eve. L. 114: we can see that he"s self deluded.
