"There would be no difficulty if Satan were simply an Iago;The difficulty arises because he is a Macbeth" Discuss this comment on Satan's character.

Milton and Shakespeare are the two great stars of the Elizabethan period.Their works , to some extent, have attained the level of classics.The characters created by them has raised a lot of stormy discussions among the critics.Whether it is the "Othello" or the "Paradise Lost", there are several scopes to regard both of them as literary masterpieces having infinite prospects of interpretations from different points of view. If we analyse the character of …

…this discussion by quoting Shelly who considered Satan or "Milton's devil as a moral being far superior to his God." Undoubtedly enough, the portrait of Satan is so flawless and yet so powerful that it strikes one as almost miraulous.Milton made Satan more glorious than he intended and it is this unwanted sympathy with Satan that turns him into a tragic hero and places him among the best literary creations of all the ages.