The fallen Angel whose heart cries for coming back.
In paradise lost by John Milton some people believe that Satan is the hero of the poem but the definition of hero is “a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.”1 In Book one Satan says, “To do aught good never will be our task, but ever to do ill our sole delight… If then his providence out of our evil seek to bring forth good, our labour must be to be to prevent that end, And out of good still to find means of evil.”2 According to his own words he would be better described as the antagonist of the story because he is “a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.”3 We see this in book two when Satan and his cohorts are discussing ways to seek revenge on God and ultimately human kind they argue, “Of some new race, called Man, about this time to be created like to us, though less in power and excellence, but favoured more of him who rules above…thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn what creatures there inhabit, of what mould or substance, how endued, and what their power and where their weakness: how attempted best, by force of subtlety… to waste his whole creation, or possess all as our own, and drive, as we were driven, the puny habitants; or, if not drive seduce them to our party, that their God may prove their foe, and with repenting hand abolish his own works…”4 In Book four we can see how Satan is full of hate and that the only thing that he wants to it is to obtain all the power that he lose without being repent “But say I could repent, and could obtain, by act of grace, my former state; how soon… What feigned submission swore?... Farewell, remorse! All good to me is lost; evil, be thou my good; by thee at least”5
The Book four also let us seeing that Satan’s rebelliousness can be considered tragic. It is the tragedy of a fallen Angel who loses everything he had heaven because of his ambition, an...