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| Plate 8 from Gustave Doré's illustrations of Paradise Lost, depicting Satan "with thoughts inflam’d of highest design" (II.630) races with "swift wings [...] toward the Gates of Hell" (II.631). Whereupon reaching them, he encounters sitting "On either side a formidable shape" (II.649). |
The final lines from Book II of Milton's Paradise Lost offer readers insight into a legendary, and perhaps unexpected, encounter between Satan and his two children... Sin and Death. Offer a brief response and analysis to this text using the selections from Hakim Bey's The Temporary Autonomous Zone. How does Satan's plan align with Bey's assertion that "the TAZ is in some sense a tactic of disappearance"? (17). What conditions existed in the universe which God created which allowed for the "psychological liberation" (cf. Bey 20) of the fallen angels?
