please help me

[andrada]

i must write a passage of not more than 500 words on the topic 'Satan is a hero fighting for freedom'.paradise lost,by jhon milton.thank you.

[andrada]

can i have a quick reply.thank you very much

[PeterL]

I don't have a copy of Paadise Lost here, so I can't point out some places where Sattan comes off as heroic, but his refusal to accept defeat is an example of Satan being heroic, either that, or he is delusional. Look at the part where he makes the speech to all of the fallen. That is pretty good.

[cuppajoe_9]

The catalogueing of the hero's allies is an convention of epic poetry that Miton applies to Stan in Paradise Lost. Compare the Milton's catalogue of demons (book 1, line 376) to the Beowulf Poet's catalogue of the hero's weapons (line 1442), Homer's catalogue of ships or Virgil's catalogue of warriors.* I don't have copies of the other two works on me, so you might have to so some digging for the relevant lines in those poems.


* No Virgil, not you. The other one.

[andrada]

thank you.

[Logos]

A quick search of the online text here
http://www.online-literature.com/milton/paradiselost/

for satan or devil brings up about a dozen results :)

[Whifflingpin]

And remember that, however heroic Milton made Satan, it was in order to show that God was greater. Satan's misplaced pride is his essential feature, not his heroism.... even if he does get all the best speeches.

Maybe some of Milton's ambivalence is due to the fact that he was an Independant and one of the party that had brought down a king who believed that he was divinely appointed.