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How Does Milton Have Empathy For Satan

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This is what I found the most interesting as well. Although Satan is all of the things that have been taught in church and Sunday school he is also a fallen angel. At one point in time he was in heaven with God. That's something that is easy to over look when you only think of his evil since the fall. Milton however makes sure that we don't forget. Have Satan deliver the beautiful soliloquy in lines 32-113 truly causes the reader to have empathy for Satan. Also as Satan describes Adam and Eve before he tricks them into sin he seems to be like a jealous child almost. He has fallen out of Gods grace and here are these two beautiful beings made in Gods likeness in all their beauty and innocence and he is damned. All of Book 4 really caused me

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