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14231364 No.14231364 [Reply] [Original]

Why was Satan so charismatic and badass in Paradise Lost? It's like Milton wanted you to root for the guy.

>> No.14231374
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Villains are usually cooler than goody two shoes heroes

>> No.14231389

>>14231364
Read Job. Satan was and always will be God's Quality Assurance guy. He works for God, going from town to town tempting people

>> No.14231402

>>14231364
If he's making a case for why God included Satan in his creation, it fucking worked man, because Satan is what makes the whole story exciting

Here's the story without Satan: Angels flew circles around God, singing "Allelujah".
The End

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>>14231402
>IT WOULDN’T BE INTERESTING IF EVERYBODY DIDN’T BURN FOREVER!!!

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>>14231364
Because Milton was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it.

>> No.14231564

>>14231364
Lucifer held a high rank among the angels before the rebellion, and is regarded, at least in the general extrabibular mythos that has formed around the creation narrative, as a fallen angel retaining the same alluring qualities. He was guilty foremost of superbia, pride.

>> No.14231565

the atheist reads paradise lost and thinks "wow! this guy gets it! milton's our guy!" without ever stopping to think there have always been atheists and milton might have had an ulterior motive in characterizing them through satan

they also never mention armageddon

>> No.14231576

There would be no weight to the struggle of good and evil if there was no temptation to sin. If Satan was just a drooling retard with small penor, how would he convince anybody to join him in rebellion?

>> No.14231592

>>14231412
damn you got me
this is what I look like when I wake up with a bad hangover
(minus the crucifix)

>> No.14231632

>>14231364
The Renaissance was Christianized Europe's realization that Christianity is actually foreign bullshit that paints all the good qualities in European man as sacrilegious. Milton didn't understand this, but he and many other poets were unconsciously starting to glorify this realization.

>> No.14231644

>people still think Lucifer is Satan

Oh, boy.

>> No.14231647

>>14231644
Satan to the Christian, Lucifer to the anti-Christian.

>> No.14231662

He just wanted eve to have a fair shot at seeing both the good and bad in the world so she could understand the truth of the world. Seems like a reasonable guy desu.

>> No.14232142

>>14231364
>Why was Satan so charismatic and badass in Paradise Lost?
Why do people keep perpetuating this meme? Yes, he's charismatic, but as the poem unfolds it's made abundantly clear that he's petty, hypocritical and somewhat stupid.

>> No.14232171

Same reason he’s a badass dancer and expert on everything in Blood Meridian.

>> No.14232274

>>14231364
How else would he get people to join him?