“The Creation, and the Fall of Lucifer” begins with “I am Alpha Omega, the life, the way, the truth, the first and the last,” spoken by God. The first thing this play does is establish God’s role as a superior being. Not only that, but God himself is establishing his own authority by reiterating his role as maker of the world through his introduction. The play moves quickly as he gives Lucifer almost the same powers as he has. Very soon Lucifer is overcome with vanity, and is struck down to hell. Lucifer’s cries of woe create a sympathetic character that I believe was purposely done. Lucifer is a representation of sin, and since humans are all guilty of our own sins, we may empathize with his actions and behavior in this play. First and foremost, …show more content…
As God’s favorite, Lucifer was bestowed his gifts with high expectations. Along with that, we have seen that God was a very demanding being. Anyone under such scrutiny, is bound to fail, which is where the audience can sympathize with Lucifer’s actions. God’s demands of him and his angels are so high that any mistakes to follow seem consequential. The audience can feel empathy towards Lucifer because these types of sins are easy to be guilty of and the audience knows that they have been guilty of them as well, in their respective …show more content…
When they arrive in hell, angels accuse him of costing them their positions in heaven. In line 114, Lucifer claims that he “said but a thought,” in his defense, which is true in this play. Although, in line 129, God expresses that all of them went to hell because they all fell into “[vain imaginings]” proving that Lucifer was not the only angel at fault. Nevertheless, the focus remains on Lucifer’s sins because he was God’s favorite, which is why he was more severely
The term “Manifest Destiny” was, in part, an expression of a genuine ideal on the part of Americans. Yet it was also a justification to a push and to assume territory. The idea of Manifest Destiny was sparked by revolutionary American writings that encouraged appropriation of Canada. These writings rationalized that the Louisiana Purchase and the Untied States’ annexation of Texas ordained American complete domination of the North American continent. More broadly stated, Manifest destiny was a conviction that God intended North America to be under the control Americans. It’s an assertion of Anglo-Saxon supremacy.
In the story, as Satin is falling everything he touches and says turns into an evil that will later be a key part of the Biblical story such as, “He cried: “Death!” his fists stretched out in the empty dark. Later this word was man and was named Cain” (I), “Satan laughed, and spat towards the thunder. Filled by the visionary shadow, the immensity Shivered. This spitting out was later Barabbas” (I), and “The archangel felt himself become a phantom. He shouted: ‘Hell!’ This word later made Sodom” (IV). Hugo’s Lucifer/Satin doesn’t seem to be creating this destruction on purpose, instead, the destruction just seems to follow his actions and words whatever they are. It is like an employee that has been fired and assumes that the worst has already happened so they shout horrible things or even careless things as they leave only to find out that these words were damaging not only to those he said them to but to him and his future opportunities. It seems as though Satan’s words were shouted out of frustration and resentment not to create destruction. This is important because it gives us a sense of sympathy for
“O Hell!” Satan’s opening exclamation of frustration immediately alerts readers to Satan’s state of mind. As Satan gazes on Adam and Eve, he is struck by their blissful state, which sends him into a spiral of confusion as he slightly reconsiders his plan to destroy them. To himself, Satan addresses the pair; he begins regretful and with pity for Adam and Eve. He later shifts in tone to vengeful, envious, and angry. Further exemplifying Satan’s contrasting attitudes, Milton uses antonymous words of emotion throughout the passage. By the end of passage, Milton solidifies Satan’s hardening of heart and ends the struggle that has been festering inside Satan since his first act of rebellion against God. Milton successfully uses both the shift in tone and the emotional diction to reveal Satan’s stormy internal conflict.
But Lucifer was not on the side of Gabriel. Just because two people want similar things does not always make them allies. The director did a great job of showing the relationship between Gabriel and Lucifer, which helped portray how messed up heaven really was at the
Hospital readmission rates among the elderly are steadily becoming a growing topic of concern. Robinson, Esquivel, and Vlahov (2012) describe readmission or re-hospitalization "as a return to the hospital shortly after discharge from a recent hospital stay" (p. 338). The elderly, defined as 60 years of age and older, account for the highest hospital readmission rates in comparison to other age groups (Robinson, Esquivel, & Vlahov, 2012). With medical advances, life expectancy is on the rise, which means older people will have more comorbidities and consequently be required to take more medications for symptom management. Generally when a person takes anywhere from two-nineteen medications, the term "polypharmacy" is introduced (Pasina et al., 2014). In hospital settings polypharmacy is not an issue because there are nurses and medical providers to address questions and concerns, administer medications, and monitor a patient for potential adverse effects. However, once discharge occurs, this patient is left to juggle all aspects of their care on their own. A plan of care formulated to improve the elderly population 's quality of life outside of the hospital, speaks to one of the Institute of Medicine 's (IOM) core competencies, applying quality improvement.
Milton, through Satan's soliloquies in Book 4, shows that Satan's idea of free will is a facade, and God carefully manipulates him to fulfill his plan of Adam and Eve's fall. While speaking, Satan inadvertently places doubts in the reader's mind that his will is free. Satan proves through his actions that God created him to act in a very narrow range, even though he himself does not realize this. The combination of pride, ambition, abhorrence of subordination, and ignorance of his own state as a puppet lead to perpetually diminishing stature and divinity.
In Milton’s Paradise Lost, surely we have come to ponder upon the makeup of Satan’s attractable character—his rebellious, seductive, almost “bad-ass” attitude—a case of admirable evil. But let us not forget his ambition, his strive to weld the image of God. We have seen many moments throughout where we get Satan’s ground for imitating the image of God: “…In imitation of that Mount whereon / Messiah was declar’d…” (V 764-65). But why does Satan do this? What is it in Satan that causes him to “look up” to God? Is God a tyrant yet a role model to Satan? I propose that Satan’s drive is something more than just an act of pretending; maybe, it is rather a means of trying to grasp what he has been taken away from him. Or, we can say that Satan was more. Perhaps he came to existence not in the mold of angel, but as a divine tool. There must be a reason as to: why Satan was considered God’s “first and favorite angel”? This seems to suggest that Satan is, originally, at some level of divinity; an experiment of God’s that was put to the test (or is a test)—a divine prototype.
However, craving independence from God ferociously backfires on Satan when he finds out that even after leaving hell, he cannot escape it, “which way [he] [flies] is Hell, [he] [himself] is Hell,” (IV, 75). Satan finds his way to revolt against and separate from God to overrule Heaven and become king, instead however, he takes on the role of the representation of all evil which is evidently seen in his interactions with Eve.
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.
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
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.
In addition, here, as throughout much the poem, Satan continues to hedge the other side of the argument, insisting that he isn't forced to do evil by opposing God, but that "to do ill our sole delight" (160). This belief that he has a choice in the matter is tied up in the misconception that he was, and continues to be, equal to God, as "reason hath equall'd" (248) them. Quite to the contrary, Milton makes it clear that "the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs" (211-3). And it is only Satan's perverted sense of reason that convinces him that "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (254-5). He believes that his reason and contemplation will help him discover "How overcome this dire Calamity" (189), or failing that, change his will such that it fits his current circumstance. This is the classic method of the delusional and disenfranchised, holding out hope for change, but at the same time putting forth the belief that the current situation can actually be beneficial. The sophistry has shown through Satan's speech, as he declares that there is no way for God to beat him, in his mind, when we know he is already defeated.
An important figure in twentieth-century American literature, Ernest Hemingway received both critical and popular acclaim for his novels, stories, and poems. At times, his public image seemed to overshadow his stature as a serious writer. Nevertheless , all of his life experience as a big-game hunter, a bullfight aficionado, and as a deep-sea fisherman served greatly to enhance his overall body of work because he drew heavily on these experiences in his writing (Scribner Laidlaw 2). Ernest Hemingway was a writer, before this he volunteered and experienced many different things before becoming a very popular writer.
In Milton's Paradise Lost, he writes the story of the fall of Satan, his followers, and mankind. Many critics often view Satan as the unlikely or tragic hero of the epic poem. Satan is, obviously, the main character throughout most of the poem, but not necessarily the hero. Satan's main purpose is to fight G-d, and try to be on the same level as Him. The important thing is to realize that Satan is sin, and being humans, who are all born into sin, we can easily relate to a sinful character. G-d is holy and perfect. This is something which we, being fallible humans, cannot begin to comprehend. Satan does, at the beginning, follow many of the attributes which coincide with Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero; however, after the
While many arguments can be made to defend Satan as the hero of this story, his power clearly declines throughout the poem. In the end, he does not achieve his goal. Satan is “bitter, but also acknowledges the reality of his circumstances” (Smith). We see Satan reach his peak, then his power gently declines by the end of the story. Although Satan is powerful and persevering, he is no match for God. We begin to see more of his flaws. Satan is undoubtedly charismatic and persuasive in his speeches, as well as a powerful military leader, yet he seems to be somewhat hypocritical as well. For example, when we are first introduced to Satan, he tells his followers not to be afraid, yet he is afraid himself. Some might view this as Satan being brave, but this could also be viewed as him being deceptive, which illustrates how he