![]() ![]() The second chapter is the core of the dissertation. The first part of this chapter will focus on the Apollonian-Dionysian duality as proposed by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, the second part will debate whether or not Satan and God’s parts in the heavenly war could be justified using the Just War Theory, and the final part will analyse doubling in Freudian terms, referring to The Uncanny and The Ego and the Id. The first chapter will analyse theories of doubling from different disciplines: philosophy, ethics, and psychology, and will apply the theories to the poem using illustrations from different parts of Milton’s epic. The Introduction will first establish the standpoint of the dissertation, which views Satan as the tragic hero-villain of the epic, and it will then move to an analysis of an inherent duality evident in parts of the epic that involve features other than Satan’s character. This dissertation seeks to analyse the dual nature of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. ![]()
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