
197: Sympathy and Satan
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The Sin of Satan, or the Fall of Satan?
"I think what he's, what milton is giving is maybe a sir no go for it is maybe an honest depiction of evil," says Kyung Lah. "We should have sympathy for someone who does evil and yet their punishments are still deserved." The fall of satan can engender sympathy but the romantics will then sort of normalize that despair and turn him into a hero.
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