John Milton (1608-1674) towers over all his contemporaries.

His conception of poetry grew fervently didactic;it was to be "doctrinal and exemplary to a nation"and "of power beside the office of a pulpit,to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility,to allay the perturbations of the mind,and set the affections in right tune."

The real hero of Paradise Lost

In Paradise Lost Milton makes his Satan a very impressive character and at first glance it seems that the Satan is the hero of the epic. Before declaring the name of real hero it is better to answer the questionwhy does Milton make Satan so impressive a character? Is it because Satan is the hero or is John Milton on Devils party. Satan is very powerful orator. We find his illogical speeches: Fallen Doing To But As Whom There What All And And And is study courage what is is a though not of never else grand and the lostthe revenge, to not submit to be do ever being Cherube, or suffering: aught to good do contrary we elaborate field speech be unconquerable immortal or of to be but never ill to of will our his weak this be sole high is be our miserable sure, task, delight, will resist. Satan: lost? will, hate, yield: overcome?

For Satan Hell is as good a place as Heaven. For, his mind remains unchanged by place or time: The Can mind make a is Heaven its of own Hell, place,and a Hell in of itself Heaven.

According to classical rule a hero must possess only virtues and no vices. He is nobility incarnate. He is the embodiment of good. Here, in the case of Satan, we have a villain, a wicked creature-a spirit of evil. Satan representing badness, could not assume the role of a hero. Milton has made Satan impressive in order to bring Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rime. But this alone is not sufficient. Miltons Satan symbolizes deception. He is a deceiver. Milton does not present him as a

lovable hero. C.S.Lewis says All diabolical or bad characters are impressive The Satan of the early four books is not a diminutive. He retains some of the angelic glories.

Shakespeares conception of hero is different from Milton. Shakespeares ideal hero can sacrifice his life. He is prepared for martyrdom whereas Miltons hero does not have to fight and exhibit, his might Christ is a true hero.

We know that the God against whom he is contending is omnipotent. The conflict is then neither Prometheus nor farcical.

Satan admits that God is omnipotent and his revolt against Him is unjustified. He wishes that he were ordained and inferior Angel .He curses Gods love but end by cursing himself. He thinks of submission "Here To Better we reign to but may is reign in reign worth Hell, his secure, ambition and then pride and in though serve in rejects my in it. choice Hell: Heaven."

The lamentations mingled with the macabre gloating, the horrific irony seasoned with complaint is all confessions of his inner emptiness. This vacancy is reflected in the texture of the verse. Let What All And And And is study courage what is us though not of never else see the the field lostthe revenge, to not submit to be Satans be lost argument: ? will, hate, yield: overcome?

unconquerable immortal or

Satans question is meant to be an exposure of himself and of his inability to act in any terms other than (105-109) Satan is only a powerful orator. He lacks powerful heroic qualities. His speeches reveal his hollowness. To wage by to triumphs, and force or our in th guile grand excess of eternal Warr Foe, joy those which he enumerates.

Irreconcileable, Who now

Sole

reigning

holds

the

Tyranny

of

Heavn.

Tyranny of Heaven is part of the running satanic argument that God rules by virtue of superior force, not by reason.Excess of joy is sharply indicative of the state of Satans own mind. Satans mind is diseased with the obsession of revenge. He talks of man as the favorite of Heaven and of the creation as an act of spite. He envies the gentle pair.

It is not proper to say that Satan is nothing more than a collection of abstract properties, properties which can be irresponsibly shuffled to meet the demands of varying situations.

If Satan is heroic, he is heroic in Hell. If he is melodramatic he is best so in the serene peace of Eden. Satans deterioration is neither continual nor consistent.

Milton knows his Satan well enough to reject him and to make the rejection a poetic fact.

In Paradise Lost Milton makes his Satan a very impressive character and at first glance it seems that the Satan is the hero of the epic. Before declaring the name of real hero it is better to answer the questionwhy does Milton make Satan so impressive a character? Is it because Satan is the hero or is John Milton on Devils party. Satan is very powerful orator. We find his illogical speeches:

Fallen Doing To But As Whom There What All And And And is is do

Cherube, or suffering: aught ever being to

to but

be of

weak this will our his be

is be our sole high

miserable sure, task, delight, will resist.

good do contrary

never ill to we

a though

grand

and the

elaborate field

speech be unconquerable immortal submit to be or

of

Satan: lost? will, hate, yield: overcome?

not study of never is else

lostthe revenge, to not

courage what

For Satan Hell is as good a place as Heaven. For, his mind remains unchanged by place or time: The Can make mind a is Heaven of ..and Hell, a Hell in of itself Heaven.

According to classical rule a hero must possess only virtues and no vices. He is nobility incarnate. He is the embodiment of good. Here, in the case of Satan, we have a villain, a wicked creature-a spirit of evil. Satan representing badness, could not assume the role of a hero. Milton has made Satan impressive in order to bring Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rime. But this alone is not sufficient. Miltons Satan symbolizes deception. He is a deceiver. Milton does not present him as a lovable hero. C.S.Lewis says All diabolical or bad characters are impressive The Satan of the early four books is not a diminutive. He retains some of the angelic glories.

Shakespeares conception of hero is different from Milton. Shakespeares ideal hero can sacrifice his life. He is prepared for martyrdom whereas Miltons hero does not have to fight and exhibit, his might Christ is a true hero.

We know that the God against whom he is contending is omnipotent. The conflict is then neither Prometheus nor farcical.

Satan admits that God is omnipotent and his revolt against Him is unjustified. He wishes that he were ordained and inferior Angel .He curses Gods love but end by cursing himself. He thinks of

submission

but

his

pride

rejects

it.

In Paradise Lost Milton makes his Satan a very impressive character and at first glance it seems that the Satan is the hero of the epic. Before declaring the name of real hero it is better to answer the questionwhy does Milton make Satan so impressive a character? Is it because Satan is the hero or is John Milton on Devils party. Satan is very powerful orator. We find his illogical speech es: Fallen Doing To But As Whom There What All And And And is study courage what is is a though not of never else grand and the lostthe revenge, to not submit to be do ever being Cherube, or suffering: aught to contrary we elaborate field speech be unconquerable immortal or of good do to but never ill to be of will our his weak this be sole high is be our miserable sure, task, delight, will resist. Satan: lost? will, hate, yield: overcome?

For Satan Hell is as good a place as Heaven. For, his mind remains unchanged by place or time: The Can make mind a is Heaven of ..and Hell, a Hell in of itself Heaven.

According to classical rule a hero must possess only virtues and no vices. He is nobility incarnate. He is the embodiment of good. Here, in the case of Satan, we have a villain, a wicked creature-a spirit of evil. Satan representing badness, could not assume the role of a hero. Milton has made Satan impressive in order to bring Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rime. But this alone is not sufficient. Miltons Satan symbolizes deception. He is a deceiver. Milton does not present him as a lovable hero. C.S.Lewis says All diabolical or bad characters are impressive The Satan of the early

four

books

is

not

diminutive.

He

retains

some

of

the

angelic

glories.

Shakespeares conception of hero is different from Milton. Shakespeares ideal hero can sacrifice his life. He is prepared for martyrdom whereas Miltons hero does not have to fight and exhibit, his might Christ is a true hero.

We know that the God against whom he is contending is omnipotent. The conflict is then neither Prometheus nor farcical.

Satan admits that God is omnipotent and his revolt against Him is unjustified. He wishes that he were ordained and inferior Angel .He curses Gods love but end by cursing himself. He thinks of submission but his pride rejects it.

"Here To Better

we reign to

may is reign

reign worth in

secure, ambition Hell, then

and

in though serve

my in in

choice Hell: Heaven."

The lamentations