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We begin Book IV with Satan as he looks in on the Garden of Eden and God’s new favorites, Adam and Eve. This inner dialogue presents us with an interesting view of Satan’s thoughts and feelings at a very critical moment in the tale. It is here where we realize that Satan knows exactly what he is doing. It is here where he makes his final decision to act against good and willfully walk in evil. Satan’s motivation is a naked ambition for power. He desires the power that God possess and if he cannot possess God’s power in heaven he decides that he must have power over earth or at least ruin God’s demonstration of power through earth and humanity. Indeed, Satan’s dialogue focuses almost solely on power and his quest to gain it. The dichotomy or binary opposition of power versus subjection is described continuously in these lines through the analogy of height versus depth. Throughout the course of history, the association of height with power and depth with subjection has been one of the most basic symbolic interactions of hum