Paradise Lost: Satanists Don't Get It
Paradise Lost:
Satanists Don't Get It
Few literary interpretations are repeated more casually — and more inaccurately — than the claim that John Milton’s Paradise Lost portrays Satan as the true hero of the poem. The argument has become so culturally widespread that many people repeat it as though it were an obvious fact. Yet a close reading of the text shows that this interpretation relies heavily on selective reading, modern ideological projection, and confusion between narrative focus and moral endorsement.
Yet it is one of the many of such works many so called Satanists uses as a go to piece of literature they generally don't actually understand and demonstrate a profound lack of comprehensive literary skills.
Few literary interpretations are repeated more casually — and more inaccurately — than the claim that John Milton’s Paradise Lost portrays Satan as the true hero of the poem. The argument has become so culturally…
