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How is the "Satan" by Gustave Dore and the excerpt from Book 4 of Paradise

Lost similar to the Creature's own struggles?

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Satan rises from the burning lake” (1866) by Gustave Doré.

A critical interpretation of the poem compares Ulysses’ final sentiments with Satan’s “courage never to submit or yield” in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.