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Ambition - Coggle Diagram
Ambition
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Satan also wants to ascend. But he has already been one of God's greatest angels, then fallen from there.
“Provokes my envie, this new favourite of Heav’n, this man of clay”
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“O Earth, how like to Heav’n if noy preferr’d more justly, seat worthier of Gods”
“Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth…of growth, sense, reason, all summ’d up in man”
"miserable fall" to "Pandemonium, the palace of Satan"
"Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers!" obsessed with hierarchy and material things. He only resents his position, not the system of hierarchy himself. C.S. Lewis, "Satan is a personified self-contradiction"
"I who er'st contended with God to sit the highest am now constrained into a beast and mixed with bestial slime"
Against the Aristotelian principles of tragedy, Satan most convincingly follows a trajectory of overreaching in his ambitions, hubris, hamartia, but arguably without catharsis.
Shelley commends Satan's resilience, as he "perseveres…in spite of adversity and torture”
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