Cerated evil, for evil only good,
Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds" (2, 622-624).
Shortly following Satan's plan to declare war on God and Heaven, he describes God's plan to create Mankind, a group that is "less in pow'r and excellence but favored more of Him who rules above". (2, 349) Satan then describes his plan to upset God in the most offending of ways by corrupting his newest creation and wreaking havoc in Heaven.
In class we discussed how we start to question why there are riches in Hell or how darkness can be visible, described by Milton in Book I. Similarly, in Satan's description, the unanswerable question of why there is evil in the world arises.
In his telling of "a universe of death", he tells of how where all life dies, death lives, which struck me in particular as being unjust. The irony of a place where all life dies and death lives, seems daunting and depressing. Satan seems to trivialize the value of life, especially when immediately following the quote about Hell, "Puts on swift wings and towards the gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight. Sometimes He scours the right-hand coast, sometimes the left..." (2, 631-633). After discussing something so important...life, the action of sometimes scouring the right-hand coast and sometimes the left makes Satan's nonchalance evident.
Why is it that where all life dies, death lies and why is death seemingly so restricting? After reading this reaction by Satan I felt strong feelings of sadness and a daunting feeling of the miseries of death.
Kellie
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