Paradise Lost

[DotCommunist]

Jonti's knowledge of literature is slightly better than his knowledge of science, but it is still quite pathetically inadequate. The lines he quotes above are written from the perspective of Satan: it is to *Satan* that Adam and Eve "seemed" unequal. And obviously Satan is always wrong. Just like Jonti.

unless you are a satanist, in which case, he's right. All the time. (Satan, not jonti)

 

[Firky]

Jonti's knowledge of literature is slightly better than his knowledge of science, but it is still quite pathetically inadequate. The lines he quotes above are written from the perspective of Satan: it is to *Satan* that Adam and Eve "seemed" unequal. And obviously Satan is always wrong. Just like Jonti.

you're so wrong - you are given freewill. You choose if Satan is wrong (or not), it is not an absolute. Which you make it sound to be.

 

[rutabowa]

Never realised it was part of the canon tbh - still don't think it is.

well er it is, absolutely definitely.

 

[phildwyer]

you're so wrong - you are given freewill. You choose if Satan is wrong (or not), it is not an absolute. Which you make it sound to be.

Well that's one point of view. That is why the Romantics thought that Milton "was of the devil's party without knowing it." But imo Milton definitely portrays Satan as wrong and evil.

For example, in the passage that Jonti quoted, Satan assumes, wrongly, that Adam's greater size must give him power and authority over Eve. He imposes his own obsession with power and authority onto the innocent human pair. So we are supposed to realize that patriarchy is a result of the Fall innit.