Archangel Lucifers Fall

Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is a complex character meant to be the evil figure in the epic poem. Whenever possible Satan attempts to undermine God and the Son of God who is the true hero of the story. Throughout the story Milton tells the readers that Satan is an evil character, he is meant not to have any redeeming qualities, and to be shown completely as an unsympathetic figure. Satan’s greatest sins are pride and vanity in thinking he can overthrow God, and in the early part of the poem he is portrayed as selfish while in Heaven where all of God’s angels are loved and happy. Satan’s journey starts out as a fallen angel with great stature, has the ability to reason and argue, but by Book X the anguish and pain he goes through is

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the parallelism between Satan and Eve’s fall is strong in that they were once both the highest before pure perfection. Lucifer is associated with evil, which stems from his free will leading to his rebellion against God and, ultimately, his great fall. He is known as the one who introduces sin to Adam and Eve – the first humans to ever exist. His plan to go against God is the beginning of a whole new world to the universe and a whole new significance of himself as the one known for human error and evil. Eve, “the mother of human race,” is Satan’s target to pull her down to his world of sin because she also wishes to become independent of Adam making her susceptible to anything that can separate her from

Georg and Ulrich had found themselves in a big forest tabulating if there was an intruder. Georg had just found his enemy Ulrich. They start out to threaten themselves for who was going to die first. Outrageously, they started to contend with anger. While battling, a tree branch had suddenly snapped and drop on Ulrich and Georg. They both got snotty, and couldn’t get out. Georg legs got paralyzed by this enormous tree branch and Ulrich had his knee cracked. Anyways, they remained discussing about their family’s argument. While trapped by the tree branch, Georg and Ulrich kept chatting about who was going to croak first. They remained hours anguishing from their grievances and the monstrous conditions.

The Bible does not give any details on the war in Heaven, only that it occurred and led to the dismissal of Satan and his followers from the Heavenly court.  In Paradise Lost, Milton gives a detailed account of the battle that was fought in Heaven, Satan’s reason for initiating it, and how his army was defeated and removed from Heaven.  One of the reasons for Satan’s rebellion given by Milton was that  “Lucifer refuses to be subordinate to God or his divine Son (Christ)” (Moss).  Satan says in Book V of Paradise Lost to his followers that “our being ordained to govern, not to serve!”  This line shows the reader that Satan, also known as Lucifer, believes that he feels he was created to rule instead of serve God. Another reason for Satan’s rebellion against God is that he doesn’t fully believe that God created him and the rest of the Heavenly host.  “ ‘That we were formed, then, say’st thou?... Who saw/ When this creation was? Remember’st thou/ Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?/ We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us self-begot, self-raised/ By our own quickening power when fatal course/ Had circled his full orb, the birth mature/ Of this our native Heaven, Ethereal Sons’” (5. 853- 863).  Satan’s disbelief shown in this passage helps lead himself and his followers against God.  Along with his disbelief, Satan’s jealousy got the better of him.  He was jealous and outraged that God had created a Son to inherit the Almighty’s throne.   He believed that he was being cheated out of his rightful place as the “inheritor” of God’s

The novel, Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers recounts the harsh realities of the Vietnam War through a captivating African-American soldier’s perspective. The story begins with seventeen-year-old Richard “Richie” Perry, the novel’s narrator, en route to Vietnam to begin his service. Richie speaks briefly with a young woman named Judy Duncan who recently graduated medical school and is deployed as an army nurse. Another man on the plane, Harold “PeeWee” Gates, jokes with Richie about the “Congs” and the two become fast friends when they get assigned to the same platoon. After little time for adjustment, Richie, PeeWee, and their new comrades Jenkins, Brunner, and Brew realize the magnitude of the war as they begin to slightly

My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world." (Shelly 132). When reading this quote we are shown that mankind has completely pushed away the creature, since the people who lived in the cottage rejected him he feels that he has lost all hope of connecting with mankind, once he learns that the people have completely left the village the creature goes into a state of anger which causes his dangerous escalate into a murderer. "Evil thenceforth became my good.” (Shelly 210). When the creature says this quote in the end of the book he is acting as if he is lucifer. In paradise lost lucifer says "farewell remorse all good to me is lost;/ evil, be thou my good." (Paradise lost IV.109-110). As the creature is reminiscing back on his life he realizes that he himself is more like lucifer than Adam, he is a fallen angel. And the creature continues to realize that even the most horrible people, including Lucifer the fallen angel, have people to be with and share thoughts. The creature has no one to love or care for him. Remembering all of the terrible things that he has done it causes the creature to think about his decisions and the decisions made by the society that ever so outwardly hated him. The creature is going to die with no one even though he tried to find companionship. Society did not accept the creature for who he is, therefor he was plunged into an icy

The beginning of book I of “Paradise Lost” starts off with the post war against God. The speaker begins with a description of Satan on his back alongside the other rebellious angels, chained on a lake of fire. The speaker then revisits the war by addressing Satan as Lucifer, the greatest angel, and going to say how Lucifer and his compatriots lost the war against God and was cast from heaven to the fires of hell. Then the story picks up with Satan and Beelzebub, Satan’s second in command, conversation about the war with God. Even though they’re being punished by God and it’s not looking too good on their behalf, they still feel courageous and alive. Beelzebub states, it’s “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” (263). Their motivation was to seek vengeance on God by turning all good things

Satan’s fall can be easily broken up into four steps: he came to think of himself too highly, putting himself equal to God; he made a following for himself; he plotted a rebellion with his fellow rebel angels; and he attempted to carry out the rebellion. His attempt to overthrow God and obtain power was, however, futile and easily thwarted. Satan was severely demoted and he spent the rest of the plot trying to pervert every good thing as if it would be to any avail to do so. He attempted to exert his own powers over creation and tried to get a foothold so that he could gain more power. His extreme arrogance led to his fall from grace. “This is the same willfulness which lies behind his rebellious claim in heaven that he is ‘self-begot’…What Satan the general refuses to give up here…is…individual glory, which he pursues at all costs.” (Loewenstein, 56-57). Considering that Satan was an angel in the presence of God at the beginning, he had no excuse such as ignorance to claim. Satan’s rebellion began within himself with little else to prompt him. Satan had the ambition to raise a rebel force, but army or no army, he surely would have thought himself more powerful than he ought have. His pride also got in the way of him ever being restored to his former position. “As part of his task of exculpating God…Satan explains that even if he could repent and get back to heaven ‘by act of grace’, it would do

In Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan and his legion of followers were cast out of Heaven and put into Hell. Satan was cast out because he challenged the authority of God. Like Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus the Titan, Satan did something that caused him to lose his title. Victor Frankenstein was a smart young man that had a lot of promise and potential. He lost all of it because he tampered with nature’s authority. Prometheus was a powerful Titan that stole the right to make life from Zeus; he too stole the power from a higher authority. All three characters, Satan, Prometheus, and Victor, ended up in their own personal Hell. For Satan, he was thrown out of Heaven and was chained to the burning lake in Hell. Prometheus’s

God was very angry about this act of betrayal as he saw it and so he turned his head and the beautiful angel was dropped from God's hands and fell so far he reached a place of darkness and sadness to stay there forever... he chose to build and make his barren wasteland of a home into a place where, like he wanted Adam and Eve to be, whoever they want, to do whatever they want, to be free. Though he was in this place he still wanted to help the humans. through time god had whispered into the human's ears about how awful and evil Lucifer was, and if we worshiped god and followed his rules we could stay with him in heaven, But if we disobey the rules we are condemned to an eternal fire.

The story is Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. The story takes place in 1968 in the Vietnam War. The story is mainly about Richard Perry, a 17 year old african american from New York City. Perry Can’t afford college, so he decides to go to the army for some answers. Monaco’s traits are he is, braver than most of the soldiers, he takes the dangerous position of point man.

Lucifer is the epitome and personification of all that is evil according to the traditional American perspective. His name has been linked with the name Satan so that either name refers to "the Devil" in most of the western Christian tradition. American culture, with its Puritan roots and Fundamentalist influences, has cast Lucifer in the role of the eternal enemy of all that we hold to be good and worthwhile. Preachers and others who teach Christian morality have described his power as being great enough to tempt all of us, at the same time, into sin. He seeks to lead us away from God and into his own realm of fear, torment, and undying agony. He is to be shunned and feared, lest he bring us to

John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, has been the subject of criticism and interpretation through many years; these interpretations concur in that Adam and Eve are the sufferers of the poem, and it is their blight to lose Paradise because of their disobedience; however, their exile is merely a plight brought by Satan, and it is he who suffers exile before any others. Satan changes from Book I of the poem to Book XII; his introduction is heroic and grand, appearing as a hero rebelling against an unjust God. But by the finalization of Milton’s poem, Satan is a burnt shell of himself and, though ruler of Pandemonium, he sits in a throne in the lowest pit from God’s light. Satan’s exile brings forth the salvation of mankind and his own regressive transformation; tying in with the theme of disobedience, Satan’s exile gives

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an epic poem that describes the fall of Satan and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. Satan is the protagonist of Paradise Lost and has several characteristics in which readers may identify with him. Throughout the poem, Satan is not only a tragic hero but also the key character that drives the plot and portrays many flawed human qualities. As an angel fallen from the high esteem of God and a possessor of hubris that leads to his downfall, he represents a tragic hero but also a character in which readers may identify with.

Through his work of Paradise Lost, Milton exposes his view that God allows suffering in order for a greater good of the human race to exist. Milton uses the Fall- both Satan’s and Adam and Eve’s- as a device to demonstrate human corruption, as each fall is “a step down from a higher being to a lower being”. Both the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Adam & Eve are falls away from a position of divine power to a position of chaos and disorder- something Milton illustrates as an undesirable event. Milton introduces Satan as a selfish, power-hungry character; similar to an individual of today’s society who believes they are the greatest- nobody can ‘one-up’ them. He inherently denies of the existence of a greater God, as that would discredit his own belief that he is the utmost being. Instead of blind denial, Satan instead builds up a power against God himself, in an effort to “contest the throne of Heaven” (slide). However, this in of itself is a hypocrisy on his own beliefs, as he cannot be autonomous in a search for autonomy, since he is unable to defeat God on his own. This is Satan’s first fall, because he has now relinquished his stance on denying a being greater than himself, and must maintain his uprising unless he wants to face what Milton would consider a second Fall. Milton uses Satan as a representation of disobedience within the human race; he is the ‘wrong direction’ in the two paths of moral decisions. He uses Satan to show that rebellion that stems from self-