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John Miltons Paradise Lost

talk of returning for another battle, but it is agreed that they don’t have a chance. Finally Satin decides that they should try and destroy the new world that he has heard God was creating.When Satin reaches the new world that has been created in book IV he considers what would happen if he were to repent for what he had done. He talks the matter over with himself for quite some time and decides that even if God would take him back it would not do him any good. “The lower still I fall, only supremeIn misery; such joy ambition finds.But say I could repent and could obtainBy act of grace my former state; how soonWould highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsayWhat feigned submission swore: ease would recantVows made in pain, as violent and void.For never can true reconcilement growWhere wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep:Which would but lead me to a worse relapse, And heavier fall: so should I purchase dearShort intermission bought with double smart.” (Book IV lines 91-103)This is where I see the first bit of Milton in Satin. Satin thought about it and decided that if he were to repent he would only do the same thing again, because he believed in what he had done. I believe Milton felt the same way. Even if he could have said he was sorry for the treason he had committed and been forgiven and allowed to come out of hiding he wouldn’t have done it. He knew in his mind he had done what was best for him and he would do it again if given the chance. Although it is easy to draw parallels between satins situation and Milton’s situation, which I believe was intentional, I do not believe that Milton was sympathizing with Satin. He believed very strongly that Satins rebellion was wrong but he would have defended the rebellion that he had been involved in. In book three Milton deals with his own religious views, specifically the doctrine of the elect. He does this by setting up a conversation betwe...

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