Paradise_Lost

Paradise Lost To make sense of the first two books of the epic poem Paradise Lost and further to understand Satan as a character, the reader must be equipped with a little background information. First of all, Satan, known as Lucifer, and his compatriots were once angels of heaven, with Satan himself being number two behind only God, the trinity (in other words God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit). Satan, with a heart of stone, full of hate, stuck on himself, drowning in the swamps of self-satiation, becomes jealous of the trinity, believing he should have more power than he is allowed. His arrogance and greed earns him an ousting from the promised land to hell. With him other less than divine angels are too cast from heaven into the fiery abyss. The first 83 lines, written in the third person, are a sort of introduction by the narrator to the nature of the “adventrous song” (13), answers to the question “why hell'” Let’s look at a couple of lines that can help answer this all important question. First in lines twenty to twenty three, we are introduced to Satan “brooding on the vast abyss/ And mad it’s pregnant.” Here, paradise, lost, satan, lines, hell, first, heaven, home, himself, god, understand, two, twenty, trinity, reign, reader, question, out, make, it’s, introduced, important, heav’n, character, cast, angels, wuth, written, worth, words, vast, true, transcendent, time, thus, through