Essay on Miltons Paradise Lost -Satan’s Myth of Free Will

the Tempters Myth of trim Will in Paradise Lost Milton, through Satans soliloquies in deem 4, shows that Satans idea of free will is a facade, and matinee idol carefully manipulates him to fit his plan of Adam and Eves fall. While speaking, Satan inadvertently places doubts in the readers hear that his will is free. Satan proves through his actions that graven image created him to act in a very narrow range, even though he himself does non imbibe this. The combination of pride, ambition, abhorrence of subordination, and ignorance of his own state as a marionette lead to perpetually diminishing stature and divinity.Satan introspects in the showtime soliloquy (lines 32-113), searching for the motivation and reasoning behind his fall. He struggles with why he felt the urge to rebel. This very doubting suggests that his rebellion does not originate from a conscious effort it is part of his internal makeup. Therefore, God created a flawed angel from the beginning (this is also supported by the fact that Sin comes from Satans head while he is still in Heaven).Satan archetypical acknowledges that his pride and ambition caused his fall (4.40). After his first mention of the two weaknesses, he says that God created what I was / in that silvern eminence . . . (4.43) God not only created him, he gave him his pride and ambition. This begins to generate that God wanted him to fall. Satan further laments what has happened O had his powerful percentage ordained / Me some inferior angel, I had stood then / happy . . . (4.58-60). What Milton suggests and what Satan does not catch on to is that Gods destiny is for him to be in a position to fall. Still, Satan asserts that his will is his own . . . Since against his thy will / Chose... ...em free . . . (3.122-4), save as mankind is. Miltons presentation of contrary information in Satans soliloquies, and in the description of Paradise and Adam and Eve presents an argument that Milton was of Satans party inadvert ently as Blake said, because the lack of free will tends to prove Satans assertion that God is a tyrant.This would in effect prove what Satan says in the sustain soliloquy to Adam and Eve Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge / on you, who incorrectly me not, for him who wronged, (386-7). If Satan truly had no free will, then nothing would be his fault, as he alleges. God tells Jesus that humanity can go back grace because Satan deceives it into falling, (3.130-2). But, if Satan is deceived into falling, can he also abide by grace? Works CitedMilton, John. Paradise Lost. Ed. Scott Elledge. 2nd ed. New York Norton, 1975.