The Words of Satan in Lost Paradise

The basic argument rests on Satan's insistence that Eve and transport are entitled, by uprightness of their dominion over earthly things, to reach divine dominion.

That ye should be as Gods, since I as Man,

Internal Man, is but correspondence meet-

I, of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.

So ye sh all(prenominal) die perhaps by putt off

Human, to put on Gods--death to be wished,

Though threatened, which no worsened than this can bring!

And what are Gods, that Man may non become

As they, participating godlike food?

The Gods are first, and that payoff use

On our belief, that all from them proceeds.

I question it; for this fair undercoat I see,

Warmed by the cheerfulness, producing every kind;

Them nothing. If they all things, who enclosed

Knowledge of good and evil in this tree,

That whoso take in thereof forthwith attains

Wisdom without their leave? and wherein lies

Th' offence, that Man should thus attain to know?

What can your knowledge hurt him, or this tree

Impart against his will, if all be his?

Satan's argument gives divine attributes to the Sun and

Earth as creative demigods that seem even more creative than gods inasmuch as Sun and Earth produce life history things, whereas gods seem to produce nothing. And if they cause Sun and Earth to produce, then so much the more do Eve and Adam deserve to have

This annual modify certain numbered days,

Subjects him from without to violent lords;

His outward freedom: tyranny essential be,

Satan, who has aggrandized himself in Hell, tempts Eve to aggrandize herself on Earth, and so to plagiarize his own basic sin.

Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds

Since thy lord lapse, true liberty

the fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew

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