Paradise Lost Book II

Okay so I wont lie, I was kind of rooting for Satan for a while, I mean before I read about the really terrible things he has done. But at this point in the book my mind has really changed. Also what is particularly interesting to me about book two is that we encounter the first female character in the book, Sin, who is the daughter of Satan. It is interesting that Milton decided to make Sin a female character and then Eve who chooses sin in the garden is also a women. I think there would be room there for a queer analysis of Paradise Lost which would be a really fun paper probably. It is also fascinating that the hell hounds are a result of Sin being raped by Death. Why should Sin have a physical trauma symbol from the incident? This was also an interesting choice by Milton.

Onward to the debate/discussion the devils had about how to get back at or heal their relationship with God. Personally I would have not gone with the final plan they chose, I thought some of the other plans were far more reasonable. I was not really into Molach's plan, he seems like he is just into war mongering and violence to the extreme. Belial had some really reasonable points to counter his argument as well, in fact Belial's argument is most definitely the most reasonable and plausible one of them all. In much literature on God, he will forgive those who sin, this is often seen as the very nature of God.  The forgiveness at least. Mammon is an interesting demon because he wants to make hell their own kingdom of heaven, now thats also a pretty good idea in my opinion. But how would the devils really have freedom if Satan had the last word about everything? The kingdom of hell, had they gone with Mammon's idea, is an interesting concept. It reminds me of in Book I when Milton was describing the golden "temples" of hell.