Character Sketch of Satan - Milton

  Satan is the most glaring personality in the “Paradise Lost” penned by a most prominent and eminent poet of the Renaissance period. After a thorough perusal of Milton’s great epic, the character that looms large before our eyes and is imprinted on the blank slate of mind and memory is that of satan. John Wain has remarked in favour of satan’s personality;   “Satan, when we first see him, seems unforgettable, beautiful and heroic. Satan’s portrait is so flawless and powerful that it strikes one as almost miraculous.”   Satan is simultaneously the most exalted and the most deprived figure in the ‘Paradise Lost’. That is why; his character has been a subject of controversy among the critics. Satan’s main aim is to usurp the throne of the universe and he has the support of myriads of angels whom he has lured after him in order to defy the Omnipotent. Satan is an outcast from Heaven. Hell trembles beneath his feet. Sins are at his heels and human beings are his eas...