It illustrates Satan's self-destruction even as the main narrative of the simile portrays Satan's heroism.

这个故事讲述了撒旦的自我毁灭,尽管它也描述了撒旦的英雄主义。

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The plot around the simile is glorifying the heroic Satan here, and Hartman ingeniously locates throughout a number of Milton's similes this same dynamic of a redemptive counter-plot.

这个比喻中的情节在这里美化了英雄主义的撒旦，哈特曼非常精明地在弥尔顿的大量比喻中,布置了同样的拯救性的反计。

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