tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post8532657330308340801..comments2022-04-07T10:37:46.850-05:00Comments on English 208b: The Impossible, Perverse and Strange: Satan Within Us?Dahlia Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-20336941269259353412010-01-26T09:09:46.005-06:002010-01-26T09:09:46.005-06:00I think you are quite right about Milton's goa...I think you are quite right about Milton's goals--the poem is a political commentary but also raises ontological questions about what "world" the poem represents. We identify with Satan, from Milton's perspective, because of our fallen state; however, as other posts suggest, the poem also represents Eve in a way that suggests she is far from "innocent"--in fact she fits the contemporary (17th century) stereotype of the coy, manipulative woman quite neatly. This problem--the imperfect distinction between the fallen and pure states--remains a central concern of the poem.Dahlia Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.com