Yup. Even though he's all, "NO, I TOTALLY DIDN'T, JESUS 4EVER!"
I actually wrote a paper on how Milton restructured Satan to fit into the profile of the romantic hero to literally demonize said hero, because if you don't make the romantic hero evil, it's hard to convince people that Jesus' style of heroism is actually heroism. Classically speaking, anyway.
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Date: 2005-02-01 06:51 pm (UTC)I actually wrote a paper on how Milton restructured Satan to fit into the profile of the romantic hero to literally demonize said hero, because if you don't make the romantic hero evil, it's hard to convince people that Jesus' style of heroism is actually heroism. Classically speaking, anyway.