ENGL 204 Lecture 14: English 204 W9D1 Lecture 14
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Invocation of the muse: states sing last. Satan is the hero in the opening books. The rst invocation: constructing himself as a poet prophet, calls upon the holy spirit and not a typical muse. Theodicy: why is god allowing evil in the world. Satan tries to equalizes himself to god. Believes that god has harmed him: all about revenge, speech two. No matter what you do you will be bad: so just tay in hell, he is just as good as god, speech three. Now we know his power and we know how powerful we are. Epic simile: the sailor was fooled by the whale, we can be fooled by satan. Do not trust satan: satan"s followers are like the pharaohs. God is always in control: we have god"s view. Hell"s parliament: rst argument is to ght, second argument is inaction.
