RLST-1117EL Lecture 1: Satan
Document Summary
Satan becomes his lies, more of a lie than a liar. The thing you do is the thing you become. Page 99, satan begins as an angle and the further he strays from god (love) he becomes more of a joke. Page 102, satan feels that he has been wronged, he destroys for the sake of destruction. Milton"s satan is magnificent not in the sense of admirable if real, but in the sense of a magnificent poetical achievement page 94. Satan suffering from a false sense of injured merit (98) no one had done anything to. Satan take the form of the serpent to deceive the primordial couple. As satan drifts further away from love (=god) into hate, envy, and revenge, he finds himself increasingly bitter, violent, and destructive. Eve suggest (under satanic influence from a dream?) that they work the garden separately for efficiency (p 213) Adam worried about the enemy, thinks they should stay together.
