Unleashed academics, tutors, and ornamental hermits Alice and Rowan do a deep dive into dark hero archetypes on a semi-weekly basis.
This episode they continue their mini-series on Satan from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and discuss book 5 of the poem. They focus on how Satan justifies his rebellion against God through powerful rhetoric and grandiose posturing. We consider how and why Milton decided to make Satan's arguments compelling, and how they established the central paradox of the dark hero—what empowers them, also corrupts them, but we can't help watching it happen.
Sources
Forsyth, Neil. The Satanic Epic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Myers, Benjamin. Milton’s Theology of Freedom. Berlin: De Gruyter, Inc., 2006.
Revard, Stella Purce. "Satan's Envy of the Kingship of the Son of God: A Reconsideration Of "Paradise Lost,"
Book 5, and Its Theological Background." Modern Philology 70, no. 3 (1973): 190-8.
Revard, Stella Purce. The War in Heaven. London: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Steadman, John. ""Magnific Titles": Satan's Rhetoric and the Argument of Nobility." The Modern Language Review 61, no. 4 (1966): 561-71.
Williams, Arnold. "The Motivation of Satan's Rebellion In "Paradise Lost"." Studies in Philology 42, no. 2 (1945): 253-68.
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