How Does Satan Make Hell Worse For Himself

Are we doing things right or wrong? How do we know? When do we know? Those are some questions that we ask ourselves often. Mark Twain has the ability to make our moral senses stagger during his novella The Mysterious Stranger. Doubts can rise while reading his novella, shaking the moral senses of anyone. Satan is part of the wrong moral senses, but during the novella, Twain makes Satan sound right and sensible sometimes. Twain even creates an image of Satan a bit similar in some ways to us. Humans just like Satan want pretty often to impress and be the best of the best. Some of the characteristics that humans have that are alike with the personality of Satan are hypocrisy, sarcasm, irony, and foolishness.

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.

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.

In (Revelation 12:3) Satan appeared as a 7 headed dragon that had a crown on every head. He became so jealous and full of pride that he threw a rebellion against God. Isaiah 14 says “ I will raise my throne above the stars of God.” (Isaiah 14 12-15 NIV). A war broke out in Heaven, Michael and his angles fought Satan (Revelation 12:7). This next verse proves that Satan is truly evil, It says “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.” (Revelation 12:4 NIV) That clearly shows that he wants nothing good for us and wants to destroy us. Hell was originally for Satan only, but in Genesis God gave us the choice to live in eternally in heaven or go to hell. The

My, friends, the devil has one goal, he wants to take as many of us as he can to hell... Look at the Word of God: The Thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10

Satan is shown as unbelievably tall with three faces and six wings. Satan was red which showed anger, white with yellow to show impotence, and black which demonstrated ignorance. Luifer is placed at the bottom of the slope in hell because he was a an evil angel from God and he betrayed which caused him to go to hell, in this part of hell he is with Judas Iscariot and Julius Caesar and Cassius and Brutus. Although, Satan’s character makes readers very eager to meet in Inferno by Dante Alighieri Satan’s look is not satisfying to readers, Satan does surprise the reader, and Satan's stance in the Inferno is important. And also in the Inferno Dante surprises the reader by giving Satan a total different view of how Lucifer looks because the readers are

Secondly, Satan had the attitude of hatred. This is shown when he said, “farthest from Him is best.” This displays that Satan does not want to be anywhere God is which is why God created hell, as a place where Satan can dwell without God’s presence. Another time hatred was shown was when Satan said, “ever to do ill our sole delight.” This paints a picture that Satan hates people so much that the only way he is happy was when people suffer.

Satan encourages his followers and reminds them of their original cause. He shows great leadership skills by re-emphasizing their ideas that at least when they are reigning in Hell, G-d doesn't interfere, and although it is Hell it is still worth ruling rather than serving in Heaven. Satan is dwelling on his power which could be seen as his tragic flaw. He is allowing his pride and ego to surface by glorifying Hell (calling it "profoundest") and declaring himself in possession of Hell. He starts to think of the idea of Heaven and Hell as a mindset. He starts to believe that the mind is what creates a place as Heaven and a place as Hell. Satan feels as though Heaven is Hell because he must serve G-d there, but in Hell, he has a true Heaven because he is served and worshipped. This could be determined as his tragic flaw.

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the devil is in despair after he has fallen from heaven. When he first sees Eden he is reminded of everything he has lost. He believes that he cannot be forgiven. There is no way to go back to heaven because of his betrayal to God. It is revealed in earlier books of Paradise Lost that Satan can never be saved. Satan and the other fallen angles could not have had forgiveness because their evil and sin came from themselves. They created sin, they were its source. Milton believes that despair is the worst sin of all. According to Milton, Satan can never be forgiven. God gave

He makes up for that by continuing to fool himself by his new life. “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n / What matter where, if I be still the same / And what I should be, all but less than he / Whom thunder hath made greater” (Milton 9)? Satan wants to make Hell even better than Heaven. It is his new home now, and he’s trying to make the best of a bad situation. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n” (Milton 9). He can’t be saved like humans. “The first sort by their own suggestion fell, / Self-tempted, self-depraved: Man falls deceived / By the other first: Man therefore shall fall grace, / The other none” (Milton, III, 129-132). The reason why Satan is so intent on deluding himself is because he knows there is no hope of going back to his old

As stated above when Satan saw his new domain he was depressed by it. The more he thought about it and figured it out, he saw that the power of the mind can make any heaven a hell and vice versa. Satan even states this in his speech. (Line 255 book 1) This is not just Satan talking to the angels, but also a message to those that are reading this book, that every situation can be turned around and made to be better in a different light.

[and] Triumphant” (X.463-464) against God. The fact that this is what Satan truly believes demonstrates his prideful nature and desire to be God which results in him being so easily moved to disobedience and then

At this point, God is seen by Satan as this big bully who is self-absorbed in his own power and glory. Satan’s sense of justice tells him that he needs to gather up a rebellion amongst the angels, in

Satan was a fool to be making substantial amounts of mistakes in the past and to have betrayed numerous important people of -who they said did not deserve this- . After everything Satan had done there was a realization of how mostly everything that Satan had chose to participate in had factors of all the deadly sins: Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Sloth. The first time Satan had betrayed someone was with God, the all knowing God. God had had an opinion (or view) that Satan did not one bit agree with. So to that end he went against his saying and God did not particularly like that very much and consequently sent Satan to the underworld or what we call now “Hell”. Later on

Satan bowed his head, and groaned. ‘You mistake,’ he said, ‘Providence does exist, only you have never seen him, because the child of God is as invisible as the parent. You have seen nothing that resembles him, because he works by secret springs, and moves by hidden ways. All I can do for you is to make you one of the agents of that Providence.’ The bargain was concluded. I may sacrifice my soul, but what matters it? [...] If the thing were to do again, I would again do it. (537)