Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton

Published: Feb. 11, 2016, 4:31 a.m.

Following sections and a snow day, we try to catch up, which means (it turns out) looking at more similarities between God and Satan: their derision for their enemies, their invocation of "necessity / The Tyrant's plea." \xa0How the Son manages the Father's douche-bag-splaining ("death for death" --> "life for life"). \xa0This is a further idea of justification: making\xa0God just. \xa0Satan's reaction to the innocent Adam and Eve ("whom my thoughts pursue with wonder / And could love." \xa0His pity for them though he is unpitied) contrasted with God's ("ingrate!"). \xa0Satan's dream temptation of Eve and how much Raphael echoes it in his Great Chain of Being speech.