Just a thought: What if Satan tries to be God's equal because he wants to be like the Father. Think about it. It would support the idea of him acting like a child. But, then again, he might have just wanted to take God's place. Something to ponder.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
I Just Want To Be Loved
This week in class we read Paradise Lost by John Milton, which is based off of the Adam & Eve story from Genesis. However, this is an epic and in Paradise Lost Milton gives Adam, Eve and Satan a thought process for the reasons why they do certain things. In Genesis, it is just understood that Satan is evil, but it never explains why. In Paradise Lost before the text begins, it is said that Satan has just been kicked out of Heaven and is now about to seek revenge on God. Satan is evil, granted, and I think this may have made him completely evil. He is kicked out Heaven and is now about to throw a tantrum and for attention. This happens all the time. A child and his parents have issues, so the child turns into a problem child. They do things for attention, similar to Don Jon the Bastard from Much Ado About Nothing. Don Jon frames an innocent girl and almost ruins her reputation to hurt his brother and get attention. He wants someone to treat him as something more than a bastard, a human being. Satan does the same. Satan goes after God's precious creation to hurt God because he knows that is what would hurt Him the most. He wants a reaction out of God to see God hurt and possibly feel the same hurt he does when he was thrown out of Heaven. Satan is thrown out of Heaven because he wants to be God's equal, which cannot happen. God is the ultimate supreme and Satan cannot take that. So he is dismissed and now is throwing a tantrum. He and Don Jon are acting like children who just want to be loved by their loved ones. Maybe Satan just wants to be loved and forgiven and Don Jon too.
Just a thought: What if Satan tries to be God's equal because he wants to be like the Father. Think about it. It would support the idea of him acting like a child. But, then again, he might have just wanted to take God's place. Something to ponder.
Just a thought: What if Satan tries to be God's equal because he wants to be like the Father. Think about it. It would support the idea of him acting like a child. But, then again, he might have just wanted to take God's place. Something to ponder.
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I like the connection. I have a question for you Shamain. If Satan desires to be a Father, did he not get h is dying wish? He is considered the Father of all evil! He implanted evil into the human being, it was his seed. I love the connection of attention, I think we all can see ourselves in that reflection of wanting attention. I believe this human flaw came with eating the forbidden fruit.
ReplyDeleteHahaha great connection. I totally agree. My younger is going through his terrible fives and trust me they are terrible. When he does not get his way he has a huge tantrum. However, we tell him that is not the right way to handle things. Satan on the other hand, made poor choices and gets repermanded for that. Maybe Satan needed a spanking or someone to repermand him as well.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! Their evil actions may just be cries for attention. They feel as if they were wronged so they retaliate. And I too think Satan wanted to take God's place as being almighty and powerful. That would explain why he wanted to be equal to him- with equal knowledge and power he would've attempted to replace him.
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