All things return to their roots

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I felt as though I want my post to be about my own findings when it comes to my interpretation of Satan's role in Milton's Paradise Lost. It almost seems as though people are finding Satan in this story as the protagonist in the sense that he has some, dare I say"good" attributes. That he is finding error in his ways that one would almost sympathize with. I definitely see some aspects of it, yet I feel it is necessary to remember who Satan is. He is THE antagonist of existence. The moments in Book IV where he begins to recount his place before God after his actions. Throughout the earlier lines, namely beginning around line 40 of Book 4. Satan begins to question his decisions. I don't feel that this is something that places him in a protagonist position, I feel as though it's Milton just merely portraying a VERY SPECULATIVE view of Satan's inner thoughts. I don't think that any of these "regrets" Satan allegedly has really changes his position from being the ultimate evil. I might just be a pessimistic reader, but I honestly felt that Milton was adding both doubts and regrets with lines such as 79-82, where Satan contemplates asking for forgiveness, he immediately revolts at the idea, saying he is forbidden to do so by disdain. Never is the root of his true nature ever lost, it is always there. It can't be lost to lofty ideas because this very nature is not a response to an unreconcilable fate, leaving him with no other chance. He wanted his own kingdom and dominion. Satan wanted what he so fiercely lost for. Let him receive it.

P.S. I commented on Ty and Nate's posts

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