Like Milton, Satan is in the business of demystifying power, of exposing political or cultural power as something that is not simply inherently there or naturally there.

正如弥尔顿一样，撒旦也是要揭开力量被神化的幻想，向人们揭露政治或文化力量并不是,与生俱来自然而然的存在的。

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Milton's power was primarily seen as social and political and cultural.

弥尔顿的力量最初被看作是社会，政治，文化上的。

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Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

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