Extra Credit: 1/2 point
At the beginning of Book IV, Satan says a phrase in which I was able to interpret on my own.
On lines 58-61 Satan exclaims, "O had His pow'rful destiny ordained me some inferior angel!
I had stood then happy: no unbounded hope had raised ambition." When reading this statement
I feel as though Satan is proclaiming that he wished God had made him a low-ranking angel. I
came to the conclusion that Satan explains that if God haddone so then he would never felt the
need to rebel. Satan would have been content with his position and would have felt no desire to
rebel against God.
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You have a good literal understanding here, but close reading asks us to go beyond the characters' views.
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