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Jiang glosses 'adversary' as a literal name for Satan in the Hebrew Bible and reads the renewed serpent scene as another signal that the poem is still staging an Edenic conflict.
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Satan
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Jiang links this sympathetic Satan plotline to Paradise Lost, where the rebel's self-justifying story helps seduce readers as well as characters.
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diagnosis
A student suggests Satan is not merely morally bad but incapable of anything at all, and Jiang answers that true consciousness would at least allow speech about punishment, which Lucifer lacks.
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Jiang says Satan's attempt to separate from the body is like an organ becoming cancerous, only to discover that outside the body it has no purpose and simply decays.
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prediction
Jiang treats the angelic split as a template for human destiny: the day of judgment is a final choice between God and Satan that determines eternal punishment or heaven on earth.
model
Jiang interprets Sinon's speech as a temptation strategy: like Satan using lyric force, he first wins sympathy in order to open the city to destruction.
diagnosis
He pushes the passage to its sharpest conclusion by saying Dante is depicting the Vatican as the seat of Satan.
diagnosis
Jiang interprets Peter's outcry as saying that the Vatican has become the seat of Satan.
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"...he pointed with his finger. So adversary is the name of Satan, right?"
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"Satan literally means adversary in the Hebrew Bible. So again, it's referencing back to the Garden of Eden, and it's saying to us that..."
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"...for Paradise Lost. But yeah, no. We have to sympathize with Satan because it's not just tempting Dante, he has to tempt us as..."
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"...running. Then having that lack of good in the capable sense, Satan, even like Uglino, was good at being clever and locking people into..."
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"Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, to answer your question, is it possible he's conscious but he can't move? And the answer is, if you're..."
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"...different. They all serve a particular function. And this particular organ, Satan chose to become a cancer. And so the body threw him out...."
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"...day of judgment is do you choose god or to choose satan those who change to satan will be forever punished in hell and..."
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"...heaven coming on earth so that's the idea of um why satan rebelled he what he had free will and he chose to rebel..."
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"Can you please suddenly in the thick of it all, a young soldier hand shackled behind his back with much shouting Trojan shepherds were..."
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"So this morning we talked about Satan, right? How, if Donnie were to meet Satan and Satan would, would with poetry with lyrical poetry,..."
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"Nope. The Pope, right? Okay. He's made my burial ground a sewer of blood, a sewer of stench, so that the perverse one who..."
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