Today’s Agenda
1) Presentation
2) Journal Work
For the next ten minutes, I want you to write on the following subject:
How do you know the difference between right and wrong? Where do you get your “moral compass” from? Is it from your family, your friends? Or a combination of these and/or other sources? I want you to explain to me to the best of your ability your ethical and moral development.
Group Discussion:
For the next five to seven minutes, I want you to discuss the following:
At one point or another in our lives, we have all done things that we regret. What is the experience of regret like for you? How does it manifest itself physically (i.e. how do you FEEL)? How does it manifest itself in your understanding of the world, and your expectations of the world? While you do not need to talk about what you regret, specifically, I do want you to discuss what the experience of regret is like for you.
Group Discussion (5-7)
Mini-Lecture (10 mins):
- We have discussed changes to Language and Time
- Notice that there is no real discussion of evil – at least not as we might understand it – in this writing
- For example: Dante, Columbus, and Chaucer.
So, as of last week, we had discussed the major changes in language and time that shaped the period between the death of Chaucer and the early life of John Milton. One of the things you may have noticed in our reading so far is that there has been very little in it about either evil or villains.
For example, while many people would call Columbus evil, his writing is nowhere concerned with villainy or evil. The same might be said of what we have seen of Chaucer. The prologue presents despicable characters, but it does not directly address the evil or villainy of these characters. In terms of Dante, one could certainly argue that all of the Inferno is, itself, concerned with evil characters and their punishment – and this is true, but we need to notice that, in the 1st canto, evil is something that Dante will only have to face if he continues on the wrong path alone. Once he knows that he had a guide, he readily charges into Hell – as if he felt that he were protected from it. Evil is a place that has a HOME, and it is the job of the reasonable person to AVOID that home.
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- Europeans began to fear for their souls
- People no longer certain that they had a bead on “where” God was in the universe or “where” the Devil was.
Well, as a result of the massive chances we thought about last week, many Europeans began to actively fear for their souls in ways that they had not before. People could no longer be certain that God was a fixed force in the universe, and so they could no longer assume that the Devil was a fixed force, either.
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- People began to fear that the Devil was walking the Globe, looking for souls.
- The Witch Hunts
- Women and other minorities targeted.
- Sell their soul through an exchange of commerce.
In fact, it is during this exact period when people first began to believe that the Devil was actively walking the Globe, looking for souls to corrupt and destroy. This belief is most spectacularly represented in the beginning of the “Witch Hunts,” that plagued Europe for most of this period. Women — who were generally believed to be more difficult to instruct in Religious matters than men – were targeted as having “sold themselves to the devil.” The devil was believed to actually appear to such woman, and to take them through some ceremony – typically through dancing naked in the woods and signing their names in his book (the ironic fact that most of these women could not read seems to have not been considered by their prosecutors).
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- Catholic Church no longer seen as an adequate shield from the Devil (Exorcisms)
- Various weird factions and witch hunters begin to emerge.
Fear of a walking, talking Devil drove many people in this era to devise all kinds of particular religious habits, and indeed this is a period in which the power of the Catholic Church to maintain order and influence across the continent begins to wane considerably. For some religious groups, such as the pilgrims who landed near Plymouth Rock, fear of the devil and damnation was an all consuming force in their lives. The question of what was wrong and what was right became a central public debate.
We need to understand this development, because it will help us understand our next writer a bit better. Milton takes us this issue specifically.
Let’s begin to consider John Milton:
J. Milton’s Early Life
1608: Born to a middle-class British family
1626: Expelled from Cambridge (he wrote a dirty poem in Latin)
1632: Begins to publish poetry — first poem “On Shakespeare”
1635: Lives at home
1637: His mother died
1639: Returns to England and lives and teaches in England
J. Milton’s Mid-Life
1641: Major political troubles begin to England. Milton begins to write “political tracks”
1642: Civil War breaks out in England/ Mrs. Milton gets fed up and leaves John. He quickly writes a track defending divorce. But he and his wife continue to see each other. We know this because he had several daughters — who we will come back to shortly.
1647: John’s father dies
1649: King Charles is executed
J. Milton’s Late Life
1652: Milton becomes blind
1663: He gets married again
1667: Paradise Lost is first published.
1674: Expanded version of Paradise Lost is published. Milton dies.
Homework: Read Book One of Milton’s Paradise Lost
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/index.shtml
Paradise Lost, Book One
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Jason Stewart
Adam Crowley Eh 241
2 February 2009
Learning about the time in which John Milton lived helps to better understand why he would write about something like Paradise Lost. Milton lived in a time when many new questions were being asked about good and evil, while a strong belief that perhaps Satan walked the earth in search of souls to take back to Hell. The first book of Paradise Lost is about the banishment of Satan and many other angels from heaven for their “downwardly” way of thinking and how they have learned to embrace their new home in Hell.
After reading to around the one-hundredth I felt much like Satan and his fellow angels when they awoke in Hell: lost. I do not have a great knowledge of the bible or the stories that stem from it. I would not say that I am ignorant of religion but I can barely identify what happens in the Old Testament, thus Milton’s use of religious references and symbols bogged me down and made what could have been an enjoyable read a much more chugging struggle to wade through references that went over my head to get to certain parts and phrases that truly entertained me. Lines like “…Peace is despaired / for who can think Submission? Warr then, Warr / open or understood must be resolv’d” (Lines 660, 661) or “Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n” (Line 330) that almost give Satan a heroic persona. This is quite a surprise considering how Satan is described as a soul-eating glutton in Dante’s Inferno.
Satan and his fellow angels may have felt regret when they realized that they had been banished from heaven because of their actions or their beliefs, but by the end of Book 1 they all are considering what to do in their new evil home. In his eyes, Satan believes that the only ‘person’ to feel regret for him being banished is God himself for the wrath Satan is about to bring upon Heaven’s gates.
Kristen Porter
Feb 03rd 2009
Major British Writers
EH 241
The time of John Milton was a time of utter chaos for the people. The masses were fearing for their souls during the collapse of time and language. The period of time when Paradise lost was written, people were questioning the truths of good and evil, and whether or not they were going to suffer the ultimate price of an eternity of damnation in hell. Knowing that information Paradise Lost is a perfect example of an educated person trying to make sense of the evils of the world.
My initial reaction after reading and analyzing book one of Paradise lost is that I feel pity for Satan. He clearly has been mocked and made foolish to the people of the modern world, and is kicked out of heaven to spend time in a world of Chaos. I believe the reader starts to sympathize with Satan, and starts to understand his true cause, and determination for his unjust ways. Later in book one Satan basically becomes a symbol of freedom for himself and the others saying “Here at least We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heav’n” (Line 258-263: Paradise Lost-Book One). I feel like I almost admire his independent attitude, and his role to be free and lead hell, then follows someone else’s causes in heaven.
As the book begins to progress, Satan begins to show initial regret for his ways. Satan starts to feel that his actions against God were not fully justified. He begins to recall and talk about how glorious things were in heaven and even calls God a king at one point. Satan begins to decide that things were better for him in heaven than he originally thought. Satan begins to have an inner battle with himself over his feelings about not being in heaven anymore, and his actions that caused him to be in hell. Any traits that originally showed Satan to be a hero figure at one point, are now erased, and Satan really isn’t content anywhere. Horrifyingly enough, Satan’s statement about how to make himself be less miserable, he will make other’s more miserable for their actions, shows the reader that Satan is actually a coward.
Thus, the reader sees Satan’s evolution throughout book one of paradise lost. Milton’s desire to make the reader have a strong hatred for Satan begins with showing the audience all of Satan’s strong points at the beginning then emerging Satan makes the reader appalled by what a monster he really is. The reader’s distaste for his character is only encouraged by his motives. His reasoning about conquering humans at the beginning was once about being a rebellion to God and his authoritative rule in the heavens, later came to be about hate and taking out his own feelings of regret and misery against others. It is almost safe to say that one can justify that if Satan kept with his original reasoning he would be the hero in book one of Paradise Lost.
Caleb Ashey
EH241
Professor Crowley
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
To have a greater understanding of John Milton’s: Paradise Lost. You have to know about the times that he was in while he was writing it. It was a time when people were very confused about the concepts of God and Satan. People believed that Satan himself walked the earth as a mortal seeking people to join his rebellious army so he could destroy heaven.
Paradise lost is about how Satan was thrown out of heaven along with his coterie of “evil” angels. When this happens Satan becomes the Satan we all know about, evil, angry, and the exact opposite of what God represents. They are cast down to a new place that would be hell and Satan and his followers must adjust to and make it the opposite of Heaven. They make it a place of eternal damnation instead of a place of utter happiness. Reading this piece of literature is very hard. Most places you have to read more than once to get what he is saying. My initial reaction is a feeling of just punishment. I think that Satan got what he deserved. Although he can be a strong symbol for people like him, people that don’t like to follow rules and are very independent to the point of insubordination. But in a way you have to feel sorry for him. During book one Satan starts thinking about what has happened and realizes that he has messed up. He remembers how glorious things were in Heaven and how Hell isn’t anything like it. But thinking about this only makes Satan more angry and he vows to make people as unhappy as he is or worse to make himself feel better.
William Dow II
2/3/2009
EH241.001
Milton and Regret
Paradise Lost by John Milton is an interesting one indeed. The story follows Satan and the outcast angels from Haven after god has banished them for their revolt. Understanding what is going on during Milton’s time is key to understanding what his inspiration was. At the time, people were worried about Satan wondering around trying to claim their souls. The most interesting thing is that is what people ideas of Satan where and came from after. The idea of regret comes into play in this story by the way that Satan is feeling regret during the story. An example of this would be “Since through experience of this great event /In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc’t, /We may with more successful hope resolve /To wage by force or guile eternal Warr” (118-121). This is talking about the regret and guilt maybe that Satan is feeling.
I got lost while reading the story quickly as I do not know much information about religion and what I know comes from pop culture. I was thrown for a loop when they started discussing the Greek gods. This was not the first time a story we had to read talked about the Greek mythology.
This story gives off the feelings that regret maybe a cause of hate and anger and a path to Hell itself.
Sarah Rackliffe
EH 241
Adam Crowley
January 28, 2009
Paradise Lost: Book 1
In this poem you can detect a huge amount of regret. The basic idea of the poem is Satan being sent down to hell with his followers and his transformation from sorrow and regret to being accepting and content. “Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers” (Lines 37-39 Paradise Lost: Book 1) After Satan if sent down to hell he seems almost baffled. “What can it then avail though yet we feel Strength undiminisht, or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment?” (Lines 153-155 Paradise lost: Book 1). In this line Satan seems to be questioning what’s going to happen to him and his followers for the rest of eternity, he almost feels shocked by what has happened. Here he starts to get what eternity is going to be like for him. He is obviously feeling regret because of this outcome.
Satan then starts to take a look around hell. He flies all around hell and at this point he seems to be flying around with a friend. He is starting to get a good look at and hell and is becoming more accepting of this fate. “Farewel happy Fields Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell” (lines 49-51) as you read on you being to see Satan’s attitude really turn around and his regrets start to fade away. “Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in heav’n” (lines 61-63). I once heard this quote in a movie once and it really makes sense why it came from this poem. Satan’s regret is now completely gone and is content with what he has.
This story is almost a gloomy way to look at your worst situations and what can come from them. Satan was sent to this horrible place and went from complete confusion on how he should really feel to being completely content with what he got.
Stefanie Foutch
2/3/09
EH 241
Major British Writers
Paradise Lost
Book 1
In John Mitlon’s time, evil was all around, or so the people thought. John Milton took it upon himself to try to find the difference between good and evil, and where they might lie. The people thought that Satan broke out of hell, and was out to steal souls, especially women’s. They believed that when women went into the woods Satan would look for them. He would bring them a book, and ask them to sign it. Then once the women had signed the book, their souls would belong to Satan. Then they would be his “wives” for the rest of eternity. Because of this myth, women were actually afraid that this could happen. Then the question came up, where is good and evil?
In Book 1 of Paradise Lost, John Milton speaks of how Satan was a fallen angel. Satan and a few other Angels spoke out against God; they had foul thoughts and did not agree with everything God said. For that, they were sent to Hell. At first when the angels arrived at Hell, they seemed to show regret. They were ashamed of being banished, and they were mad. They were slightly confused on why they were there, and what to do about it. Should they beg forgiveness? They asked themselves, if God were merciful, why would he send them to such a place? After pondering these thoughts and questions, the angels concluded to rule Hell. They accepted their fate and decided to embrace it rather then to hate it. Satan swore he would revenge God. Take over and start war with Heaven. As he was ranting, the other creatures of Hell awoke, giving Satan the army he needed to seek revenge upon God.
Reading this gave me a hard time. The English is obviously quite different form the one we use now. Even though I had a hard time reading it, I pushed through. It was quite an interesting story. I am not a religious person, so in a way I did learn something about it. Knowing the time John Milton lived in helped me to better understand the story also. I could see the regret when Beelzebub fell into Hell, as I explained earlier. This story will be an interesting one to finish.
Timothy McGuire
2/4/09 eh 241
My initial reaction to this book was sympathy to Satan’s cause. I felt as though he may have had a point about the tyrannical monarchy of Heaven. Maybe he had some valid points. I felt as though I could relate to his die hard independent attitude. When Satan said “Better to reign in Hell, then to serve in Heav’n” I couldn’t help but feel a spark of rebellion. I was little disappointed that it ended with an anti climax. Satan had just had Pandemonium built called a great counsel to plot their war on mankind and then it ends. It seemed like it was one giant build up to what essentially amounted to a evil congress. Theres all these great descriptions, justifications and back story but ulitimately no action. So my initial reaction to this story is that its very good but alittle diapointing. I guess I was just expecting more from Satan.
Matthew J. Thibodeau
Assistant Professor Adam Crowley
EH 241: The Nerd Who Spoke to God
4 February 2009
This is an amazing yet confusing story. I understand there are different spelling styles during Milton’s time period, but there are just some words I could not not make out. Of course, some of the words because I’ve never seen them before, but reading unknown language in a poem makes it that much more hard to read. However, I can get the jist of the story. I find it interesting how Miltong seems to portray Satan as a victim to a vindictive God. As a religious person, who has had my own struggles, I can understand this point of view because one who truly reflects on their religion also thinks about why a God would create evil. I have asked myself if whether or not one who created evil must be evil. But, I think too much. I have come to the conclusion that life is too important to give it away to an inner struggle that has nothing to do with me. So, I decided to ignore the war which God and Satan are supposedly in. With that aside, like me, Milton sees things from a different perspective. I choose to see things for what they are rather than what people have told me, because who knows where they got their information and whether or not it is true. Milton writes from Satan’s perspecitve so one can imagine what it must be like on the other side, cast out from God’s paradise forever. I certainly feel bad for Milton’s devils and outcasts. For that’s how he betrays them, as outcasts. Yet, at the same time, one must remember that they were cast out for a reason and that they lost the war against God. They also cannot defeat one angel in Heaven, therefore, I ask myself, well, why would Milton make us see Satan and his army in this way? One reason, I think, is to bring sattire to the story from which he is writing about, the Book of Genesis. Milton definitely makes his audience think differently about the stories of which they were taught from the Bible. He offers a break in the conventional teaching of the Bible so that people can start to realize, hey, maybe I should start understanding the Bible for myself, this way if there is anything in there that someone is misrepresenting or making up, then I can see for myself that there is no specific spot that says “that”, or maybe there is a portion which sheds light onto that matter, but not in the way it has been taught to us over the generations. I think, this story also sparks the idea that maybe the people who wrote the stories in the Bible may have lied about being “men of God.” This is something that I have definitely considered in my life. I was very religious at one point of my life, but now so many questions come to light as I become more educated. Yet, I know Paradise Lost eventually makes God look better and eventually proves God’s plan to be one which every good being wants to be a part of, so I also know Milton was not trying to make people lose trust in God. Instead, I think he was trying to makes us read a story which reflects certain people’s attitudes about religion over the course of religion, and he brings us to a certain point where we decide God, in fact, is the only one who can truly protect us.
Regret is something that people deal with in different ways. There are different kinds of regret. and all kinds of things that people do to feel regret. In John Miltons “Paradise Lost,” there are many feelings that describe the feeling of regret. For example, at line 55, he writes “Both of lost happiness and lasting pain, torments him…” This is what people feel when they regret something. In this poem, Satan regrets disobeying God. People thought that satan became immortal and decided they wanted to help destory heaven. satan wanted to get an army to “conquer the gates of heaven.” Satan felt angry and wanted to get revenge. The poem mentions Revenge and immortal hate several times. An example in the poem of this would be in lines 105-110. “All is not lost, the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield and what is else not to be overcome?” Satan starts to rememnise about how much better things were when he was in heaven, and now he is only unhappy and wants others to feel the way that he does.
Gavin Kennedy
2/04/09
Book 1: Paradise Lost
To better understand where Milton was coming from when writing “Paradise Lost” it would be best to know about the times he was living in. Those were times when people thought Satan was roaming the earth, doing unspeakable deeds and committing crimes against them. Time was falling all around them, at least there interpretation of it. Language was crumbling around their feet, English was coming up while Latin was dying, trying to fight off the inevitable death of itself. Paradise Lost was Milton trying to just make sense of those turbulent times.
The story centers around the aftermath of the “Warr in Heaven” and how Satan was cast down. He, at first, seems to resent God for his punishment, and vows to have his revenge. He actually says that he feels better ruling in hell than serving in heaven. He seems like a rebel that was kind of a sore loser, he is very resentful and vengeful. But as things progress he starts to feel what I take as the beginnings of regret, or maybe being sorry for what he has done. You almost start to feel bad for Satan too because he has no way to talk to God or to try and repent for what he has done, to make things right. He thinks back about how glorious heaven was, about how nice it was and how dreary hell is starting to become. He starts to think about how to make himself feel at least a little better, trying to find a way to console himself. He starts to think that by making other people pay for their trespasses against god with harsh, harsh punishment would be the best way to do this, that by other peoples hell he will find his heaven.
It seems like Satan just wants to rule over something that is of greater value to him then Hell. At first he wants to take over Heaven, but is struck down. He then wants to rule over the human world as a kind of jab at God, trying to make himself feel more important, more like a king over something. You kind of feel pity for him, but it is short lived because you know how evil, how thoughtless Satan really is.
Benjamin McGray
EH 241
Adam Crowley
February 3, 2009
My initial reaction to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” was one of disturbance. There were many aspects of his version of Satan’s fall from heaven that were new to me, and quite shocking. First and foremost of which was how the fallen angels were portrayed as heroes in some respects. It seemed as though Milton was trying to convey feelings of pity for the fallen, as brave warriors who took on an oppressive force and ultimately failed. This could be because Milton is writing from the perspective of Satan, which is incredibly bold, and interesting as well. At one point Milton describes Satan as a being who is capable of feeling pity and remorse, which is not something that the pure evil-incarnate figure that was my understanding of Satan would be capable of, “… cruel his eye, but cast / Signs of remorse and passion to behold / The fellows of his crime, the followers rather / … condemn’d / For ever now to have thir lot in pain, / Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc’t / Of Heav’n, and from eternal Splendors flung / For his revolt,” (Milton). This quote shows that Satan is not only remorseful, but feels responsible for the pain of the others around him. So to see compassion from a figure like he is definitely surprising to me. I also found it interesting that included among the fallen angels were well known gods of the ancient world, such as Titan and Saturn of Greek/Roman mythology as well as the Egyptian goddess Isis. I like how there origins are explained, and Milton is rationalizing heathen beliefs by incorporating them in his poem.
This poem speaks a lot of regret, the title itself suggests as much. When one loses Paradise there must be at least some mournful retrospection. Indeed in Milton’s above mentioned quote, Satan himself shows signs of remorse, though I would not go as far to say that he is sorry for his actions. Eventually however this remorse gives way to anger, which results in Satan inspiring his followers once again to rebel against the “Tyranny of Heaven” for the pain It has caused them. So while there is initial remorse among the fallen angels it eventually gives way to hatred, which it so often does among the lesser beings of the human race.
All in all, I found this passage to be supremely interesting, and at points, frightening. Two thumbs up.
Meghann Peterson
February 4, 2009
Professor Crowley
Response to Milton
Thinking about Paradise Lost in terms of regret actually makes the poem a little easier to understand. I think there are probably a lot of things I am missing from the poem because I don’t know a lot about the Bible or history in general. There are so many references that the footnotes are almost as long as the poem. The first way I can relate the poem to regret is probably the most obvious way. Eve must regret eating from the tree of knowledge because it caused her and Adam to be exiled from the Garden of Eden. Not to mention that Eve is still blamed for this “original sin.” Imagine still being blamed now for something that you did thousands of years ago. And it is not like Eve purposefully chose to “[bring] death into the world, and all our woe.” We are told that the serpent deceived Eve into eating the fruit. And although this gives Eve some clearance in the matter, her action is definitely something you would regret.
In the poem we are told that Satan used to be an angel and was cast out of heaven because he wanted to “set himself in Glory above his Peers, /he trusted to have equal’d the most High.” I don’t know if Satan is the kind of person that would regret decisions but if he was he may regret the decision to try to be as powerful as God. For him, he gets to live somewhere like Heaven and do the things that Angles do (which I imagine are good). But he gives it all up to start a place like Hell (which I imagine was no so good). There might be some kind of regret in that decision.
There may also be some regret from God in his decision to exile Satan and his Angel friends from heaven. I don’t want to offend anyone by insinuating that God makes mistakes but I think of God as someone who can be like people (since we are made in his image) and can make mistakes like people. If God had not kicked Satan out and had handled the situation differently (if that was possible) he might have avoided the creation of Hell altogether. Just because Satan is described as being inherently evil doesn’t mean he might not regret his actions. Even evil people might prefer the luxury of heaven compared with the helliness of Hell.
Leah Gomes
2 February 2009
EH 241
Milton: Paradise Lost – Book 1
When I think about Milton, I think about Paradise Lost. When I think about Paradise Lost, I think about sin and its consequences. The story of Adam and Eve is not a new idea to me. I have heard this story since I was a kid, and Milton talking about mankind’s first act of sin against God seemed very normal to me. This first sin is the reason that the rest of mankind is doomed to spend the afterlife in hell unless they realize that they are sinners.
Adam & Eve – Regret: What thinking about the story of Adam and Eve, you wonder about regret. Since Eve was the first to take a bite, and then she gave it to Adam, she must not have felt regret right away. Unless, since she was feeling regret, she didn’t want to feel it alone, and therefore let Adam take a bite. So, the story says that they knew right away that they had sinned; that they were aware of what they had done and that it was wrong. They regretted that decision every day of their life.
Satan – Regret: I don’t think that Satan regretted what he did. He truly thought that he was right in his thinking. Getting kicked out of heaven didn’t make him rethink his decision; he still thought he was as good as God.
Kacey Beckwith
EH 241 Major British Writers
February 11, 2009
Milton: Paradise Lost
One of the major points of Paradise Lost that I found to be interesting and quite surprising was that Milton wrote this poem about the Devil and gave that point of view, rather than the point of view that I, and I would assume most people, would be used to. Most of the stories, poems, and so on that I have previously read or heard of have been from the “good” point of view, or from God’s perspective. Therefore, the fact that this poem was written in the opposite way really caught my attention and made me think about what was being said more than I probably would have, had it been written in the more familiar way to me.
I thought that Milton was really able to capture the essence of the Devil, or what it seems he would be like. At first, this character has regret for being cast out of Heaven, but once he goes to Hell and experiences it, he is able to form a whole new outlook; the character seems to be happy with his fate, rather than upset.
I, for one, have come into contact a lot with the idea of God and the Devil, as well as Heaven and Hell throughout my entire life. Based on my religion, I can really relate to this poem in regards to the ideas it presents, as well as the characters. However, I find it almost unsettling that a person was able to almost humanize the Devil and make him understandable to everyday people. I found this to be very unfamiliar and it raised a lot of thoughts and questions within me. I started to wonder if the Devil could be much more like humans than our culture seems to have previously thought. However, no matter how much I tried to form my thinking around this, I just couldn’t grasp this concept.
Even though this poem made me think a lot about this topic since it was a whole new concept to me, I still think in the same terms as I did before. I do not think that the Devil was ever truly remorseful for anything that he did in order to get himself kicked out of Heaven. I think it was simply a case of him wanting more power and to be as great as God. However, he was not able to do this and was punished as a result of his actions. Therefore, he played the “regret card”. However, he didn’t seem truly regretful; he seemed like he was only regretful of the fact that he didn’t know what was to become of him in his future. Once the Devil realized that Hell wasn’t as bad a place for him to be as maybe he had previously envision, he seemed to be happy with his fate. This makes me think that he was never remorseful and that he never went through any form of change whatsoever; he simply went back to his same old ways as before.