Introduction:-
John Milton was born in bread streat,
Cheapside London on 9th December 1608.Or some four year before
Shakespeare’s retirement to start ford. His father john Milton was a money servant
an occupation that combined that duty of modern banks and lawyer. His father
was a puritan and love of art and literature and besides he was noted musician.
There can be no doubt that the young Milton inherited his love of music from
his father who spread no pains or
expense in the boys training Cambridge music was a natural part of his home
environment. His mother was Sarch Jeffry who was a gentle woman known for her
charitable works.
Milton was the son of staunch Roman
Catholic and turned protestant at oxford, for which he was disinherited.
When Milton was ten years
old, he had started to learn, and had a tutor, Thomas young. He was educated at
st.paul’s school and at Christ’s collage Cambridge, where he remained seven
years taking his B.A in 1629 and his Post graduation degree M.A in 1632 because
of his personal
beauty, flowing hair and a prudish aloofness from the riotous life of the
undergraduate he was called the ‘lady of Christ’s, at the university his
stubborn and irascible nature declared itself and owing, to insubordination he
was sent down for a term.
While he was studding in the collage, he
composed many Latin and Italian poems but the only remarkable English poem of
this period was ‘ode on the morning of Christ’s nativity; his systematic
studies did not however close with the close of his collage course.
The blind poet, Milton died on 8th
November 1674 in London, where he buried. Paradise lost is an epic poem written
by john Milton. Paradise lost written in blank verse and first published in
1667. It is a major
work of john Milton and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest
English poets of his time.
Satan:
Paradise lost is regarded as masterpiece in
the history of literature. It’s an epic with three main characters Eve, Adam and
Satan with the divine character God. Many critics have suggested that Satan is
seems like hero in one or the other way. The character of Satan is mainly
depicted in grey shade. But there are such elements like hero in him, which can
be identified by readers with looking the character of him in different
perspective, and do not judge him as a devil.
This kind of view point was the reason of such kind of controversies
because to take a character that has all the anti-religion and anti-god aspects
has created such issues and further the book itself has claimed as it is an
anti-religion book.
There are three elements
which can justify the character of Satan as hero,
1.
Satan’s actions:-
Satan has done such actions, some
have an element like hero, but on the other hand he has to follow his character
of devil, that’s why he is a villain in the epic.
When his character has introduced he
has a long soliloquy of his Fall and how he has thrown out of heaven and lost
his place from near to God. His frustration of his fall from heaven made him to
take revenge against God, and made him villain of the story. It was his first
action and then, when he was with eve to control her mind, he started loving
her and forget his goal to destroy paradise, for a while he became pure lover
as it suggests him as a hero. Then his revenge has been attacked on his mind
and he realizes that he is out of his way, and he should not be distracted from
his way. And again he came back into his devilish mind and activities. He
realizes that,
“He is not for love but to hate.”
2.
Appearance of Satan:-
Satan is a fallen angel, so, he has
still some kind of a similar appearance like and angle. Not only from his appearance
but from heart also he is like an angel in some or the other way. He has wings
like an angel, and he also know that how to love. He has all the qualities of
lover, and if he would be a devil, he could not love like an angel, if Satan
would presented as a hero, he would be
definitely prove himself better lover than Adam is.
As he has fallen from
divinity to hell, he has been turned from most beautiful to the ugliest, their
actions and sins not only put them in the character of villain but also
affected their character and spoiled it. Satan has started as hero but in the
end of his actions, he is devil.
3.
A complex
character:-
Milton has created huge contras in his character
of a Satan. He is presented not properly as villain not as hero, he is a
mixture of both, and his heroic elements are suppressed by his devilish minds
and his hatred towards God. He is a fallen angel, so before becoming devil, he
was an angle, and because of his sin he has turned into devil. But though he
has some emotions but now he has no use of that and that is why he is trying to
destroy paradise of God. At some point readers could feel the pain of Satan,
and could realize that why he is against of God. His positive side has been presented
by Milton. Satan has his own views towards God, and his own Fall. Milton has
presented an active devil, which has thoughts and feelings and his own emotions
of revenge, hatred and love. His complexity as villain has depicted by Milton
in paradise lost with makes him half
hero and half villain.
Satan as
center character of the epic poem:
The most famous quote about paradise
lost is William Blake’s statement that Milton was “of the devil’s party without
knowing it.’’ William Blake may have meant something other than what is
generally understood from this quotation, the idea that Satan the hero or at
least a type of hero, in Paradise lost is wide spread. However the progressing,
or more precisely regression, of Satan’s character from book 9 through gives
much different and much clear picture of Milton’s attitude toward Satan.
Satan is the center character
because as we take a look of a poem, god created Adam and eve and a paradise
for them, but he put the Satan in hell, Satan was with god before he was in
hell. He accompanied god though he know all about god and he was removed from
heaven because of his bad deeds. Satan wanted to stay with god ,but he was in
hell and was frustrated with the punishment of god that is the reason that he
entered in the world
of god and tried to destroy his creation, and he succeed in it on some of the
other way.
In paradise lost Satan is center because he is doing all the things.
Satan inspired eve to eat the fruit of knowledge and god punished eve and Adam
for this mistake. And they lost paradise.
Satan as
hero:
As far as the concept of hero is Ancash,
he should have the qualities of good person, like honesty, loyalty and he
should perfect in his deeds. But I paradise lost Satan has all the evil
qualities through we can call him hero because he has great fall from heaven to
hell. He was in heaven and very near to god. And him departure from god has
forced him to be anti-hero and he try to destroy god’s paradise is all his
reactions towards god’s action.
Satan as
lover:
When Satan went in paradise to
destroy god’s paradise he has not any intention to convince eve in temptation
act, but when he saw eve, at first sight, he forgot his revenge and was
attracted by her beauty and greed of eve. He kissed the footprint of eve and
shown his love towards her. He praised the beauty of eve continuously and
convinced her to eat ‘fruit of knowledge’. Satan was able to do anything with
eve but he suppressed his feeling of love by his thought of revenge. As he
kissed the footprint of eve and presented his love, we can say that he could be
the best lover, but hat rate toward god made him evil. As it is said that
“If there is hate there is love and if there is
love there is hate”
His love has converted into hatred
towards god.
Conclusion:
Satan could not be considered as a hero
in any kind of work, but he has played very important role in as a character,
he has presented himself well as villain and also his goodness, that how he has
become Satan, at some point it can be said that he is not happy in the hell,
and because Adam and Eve are enjoying in the paradise, he could
not see that anybody takes his place, and that is why he has planned against
God to destroy his world.
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