To make sense of the first two books of the epic poem Paradise Lost and further to understand Satan as a character, the reader must be equipped with a little background information. First of all, Satan, known as Lucifer, and his compatriots were once angels of heaven, with Satan himself being number two behind only God, the trinity (in other words God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit). Satan, with a heart of stone, full of hate, stuck on himself, drowning in the swamps of self-satiation, becomes jealous of the trinity, believing he should have more power than he is allowed. His arrogance an
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