After Satan tempts Eve into tasting the forbidden fruit Eve ventures to find Adam. Upon finding Adam she tell him of her deed, and following that Adam rationalizes himself into eating the fruit as well. Adam presents him self with many logical thoughts that would justify him eating the fruit. He first describes her beauty, then he describes her deflowerment, her fall from grace. He then acknowledges that god is unlikely to come down and create another maiden for him, "should create another EVe, an I another rib afford (line 912)." IF he is to be with her he must make the same transgression as she did. "Linked in love so dear, To undergo with me one guilt, one crime."
Satan enters Book 9 lower and more confused than before. His decisions to corrupt mankind forever is decided, yet he wrestles with what seems as inner regrets and remorse for his spite against God. He enters the playground of Earth after 8 days being kicked out by Gabriel and he's consumed again by its beauty, and what could have been. "With what delight could I have walked thee round, if I could joy in aught, sweet interchange of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains, now land, now sea, and shores with forest crowned, rocks, dens, and caves; but I in none of these find place or refuge; and the more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me, as from the hateful siege of contraries(Lines 114-122)." Plagued by the glory of Earth, Satan's internal pain and agony is built in despair and torment. His jealousy and envy of man, and again what could have been if he had not rebelled, is what propels him to rationalize his fall into deeper sin and rebellion. Its shown here, "O foul descent! that I who erst contented with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime, this essence to incarnate and imbrue, that to the height of deity aspired; but what will not ambition and revenge descend to? Who aspires must down as low as high be soared, obnoxious first or last to basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils(Lines 163-172)." Satan's wounded pride is made clear and his ability to reason in this context makes the case that he in many ways regrets his rebellion, and it would have possibly been better to remain good and humble. "For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts(Line 129-130)." This how he rationalizes, his thoughts of repentance become inner turmoil, his own personal Hell. His justification to destroy is his Hell, being mind and body which he can not escape.
After Satan tempts Eve into tasting the forbidden fruit Eve ventures to find Adam. Upon finding Adam she tell him of her deed, and following that Adam rationalizes himself into eating the fruit as well. Adam presents him self with many logical thoughts that would justify him eating the fruit. He first describes her beauty, then he describes her deflowerment, her fall from grace. He then acknowledges that god is unlikely to come down and create another maiden for him, "should create another EVe, an I another rib afford (line 912)." IF he is to be with her he must make the same transgression as she did. "Linked in love so dear, To undergo with me one guilt, one crime."
ReplyDeleteSatan enters Book 9 lower and more confused than before. His decisions to corrupt mankind forever is decided, yet he wrestles with what seems as inner regrets and remorse for his spite against God. He enters the playground of Earth after 8 days being kicked out by Gabriel and he's consumed again by its beauty, and what could have been. "With what delight could I have walked thee round, if I could joy in aught, sweet interchange of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains, now land, now sea, and shores with forest crowned, rocks, dens, and caves; but I in none of these find place or refuge; and the more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me, as from the hateful siege of contraries(Lines 114-122)." Plagued by the glory of Earth, Satan's internal pain and agony is built in despair and torment. His jealousy and envy of man, and again what could have been if he had not rebelled, is what propels him to rationalize his fall into deeper sin and rebellion. Its shown here, "O foul descent! that I who erst contented with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime, this essence to incarnate and imbrue, that to the height of deity aspired; but what will not ambition and revenge descend to? Who aspires must down as low as high be soared, obnoxious first or last to basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils(Lines 163-172)." Satan's wounded pride is made clear and his ability to reason in this context makes the case that he in many ways regrets his rebellion, and it would have possibly been better to remain good and humble. "For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts(Line 129-130)." This how he rationalizes, his thoughts of repentance become inner turmoil, his own personal Hell. His justification to destroy is his Hell, being mind and body which he can not escape.
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